New Zealand Gazette – 1883 – No. 20

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✨ Railway Fare Regulations

276 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 20

Schedule of Fares—continued.

Fares.

No. of Miles.	Single. Ordinary.	Return for Saturday and Sunday.
	First.	Second.

Tickets for return journeys will be issued only on Saturdays and Sundays, and
will be available for return up to the end of the following Monday. The mileage
will be counted one way.
Single tickets will be available for the day of issue only.
Children under 3 years of age travel free; children under 12 years of age half
rates.
Flag-station tickets will be issued only to the next booking station.
Passengers entering the train at a booking station without a ticket, or having
got in at a flag station and not taking a ticket at the first booking station, will be
charged one shilling in addition to the ordinary fare.

Railway Officers' and Employes' Tickets.

Privilege Ordinary Tickets and Privilege Season Tickets, at one-fourth the
ordinary rates, may be issued to railway officers and employés, and to their wives. The
minimum charge for privilege ordinary tickets to be the same as for ordinary tickets.

Volunteer Tickets.

Tickets will be issued to Volunteers in uniform without charge, upon written
order from the Officer commanding the district.

Season Tickets.

Application for Season Tickets must be made to the Manager of the line, upon
a form to be obtained at any Station.
All School Season, and Teachers' Saturday Season Tickets will be issued and
dated as from the first day only of each quarter.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1883, No 20

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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🚂 Continuation of Rules Governing Railway Fares and Special Tickets (continued from previous page)

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