JULY 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1073

or wagons will be charged for. Timber carried in timber trucks, minimum 2,000 superficial feet per pair of trucks for distances of 75 miles and under; minimum, 4,000 superficial feet per pair of trucks for distances over 75 miles; when timber is over 26 feet long a check wagon, or wagons will be charged for.

Any less quantity which can be carried in one truck will be charged as such minimum, or at 1d. per 100 superficial feet per mile up to 50 miles, and for each additional mile, ½d.; where this rate is charged the minimum quantity will be 100 feet, and the minimum charge 1s. per 100 superficial feet, without further charge for loading or unloading.

The minimum charge for each consignment will be 2s. 6d.

Mouldings will be carried solely at owners’ risk.

In computing the charges for timber 25 feet or under in excess of any multiple of 100 are to be foregone; over 25 feet to be charged as the next 100.

Australian and Tasmanian timbers will be charged at a rate and a half; any less quantity than the minimum will be charged as such minimum at a rate and a half, or as ordinary timber at the rate for small lots.

Round timber, measurement as follows: The average girth in inches to be squared and divided by 152, the result to be multiplied by length in feet; the product will be deemed to be the contents of the log in superficial feet.

No allowance to be made for bark by ringing or otherwise, or for tops, butts, or unsound wood.

One hundred palings, or 1,000 shingles, as 100 feet timber.

All loading and unloading must be done by the owner.

For each loading or unloading done by the Railway 3d. per 100 feet additional will be charged.

Where senders who do their own loading require a receipt for number of pieces, 3d. per 100 feet superficial additional will be charged, as if loading had been done by the Department.

(7.) Class L.—Firewood, Posts and Rails, and Split House-Blocks.

Goods of this class will be carried only at the owners’ sole risk and responsibility, who must do all loading or unloading. For each loading or unloading done by the Department 5s. per truck will be charged. Small lots or part consignments will be charged as a truck, or at the classified rates for Class D, at option of sender.

A truck-load must not exceed 5 tons in weight. Any truck loaded with more than this quantity will be charged rate and a half.

(8.) Class M.—Live Stock.

Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats, and Calves, in Truck-loads, carried at Owners’ risk.

No more animals are to be put into a truck than it will conveniently hold.

One drover to every three or more trucks in the same consignment of horses, cattle, sheep, &c., may travel free in a second-class carriage.

Mixed consignments of cattle and horses will be charged separately, or as one lot, as cattle.

All animals must be loaded and unloaded by the owners at their own risk and responsibility.

Cattle, Calves, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs, in small lots,

May be charged at truck-load rate, or at the following rates :

or, if mixed consignment, as a truck-load of cattle.

All animals must be loaded and unloaded by owners at their own risk and responsibility.

(9.) Class N.—Minerals.

Minimum quantity, 4 tons, except for bone dust, guano, manure salt, and artificial manure, for which it will be 2 tons. Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum, or at the classified rates for Class D.

Sand will be charged 1s. per ton less than the classified rates for distances of 16 miles and under. Minimum charge, 2s. per ton.

The Railway Department may require loading or unloading to be done by the owner. For each loading or unloading done by the Railway Department 1s. per ton will be charged.

(10.) Class O.—Road Materials, &c.

Minimum quantity, 4 tons. Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum, or at the classified rates for Class D.

Road metal and boulders, ships’ ballast, shingle, gravel, rough stone, and limestone will be charged 1s. 6d. per ton less than the classified rates for Class N; but the minimum charge will be 2s. per ton.

The Railway Department may require loading or unloading to be done by the owner. For each loading or unloading done by the Railway Department 1s. per ton will be charged.

(11.) Class P.—Native Coal, Bricks, &c.

Minimum quantity, 4 tons. Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum, or at the classified rates for Class D.