Tramway By-laws




  1. Each passenger who has paid his fare, and has received a ticket, shall produce such ticket whenever required so to do by any Stationmaster, or person authorized by a Stationmaster, or by the Guard in charge of the train; or, if it be a return or a season ticket, shall give the same up to be marked or examined when required, and shall deliver up any ticket on the demand of any such Stationmaster, person, or Guard.

  2. Any passenger joining a train at a booking-station without having previously provided himself with a ticket shall, on demand by any such Stationmaster, person, or Guard as aforesaid, pay one shilling in addition to the ordinary fare.

  3. Passengers joining the train at flag-stations will be booked by the Guard to the first booking-station at which the train stops, and will there rebook to destination.

  4. No male passenger shall enter or remain in any waiting-room or carriage set apart for the accommodation of females.

  5. No person shall enter or remain in a carriage, or compartment of a carriage, containing the full number of persons which it is constructed to convey, except with the consent of the persons in such carriage or compartment; and any person who shall have entered a carriage or compartment under such circumstances shall go out immediately upon being requested by the Guard or other officer of the tramway to do so.

  6. No person, not being a tramway servant, shall open any carriage for the purpose of entering the same after the tickets have been examined and the carriage-doors locked by the person appointed for that purpose, nor shall open any carriage or truck, or attempt to do so, at any station or at any time during the journey by means of a private key or other instrument.

  7. No person shall get into, or upon, or quit any part of a train while it is in motion.

  8. No person shall load or discharge firearms, or carry loaded firearms, in, or place them upon, any carriage, engine, wagon, truck, or other vehicle situate on any part of the tramway.

  9. No person shall smoke on any part of a tramway or train, except in the carriages set apart for the purpose.

  10. No person shall take a dog into any passenger-carriage.

  11. No tramway servant shall receive any gratuity on pain of dismissal, and no person shall give or offer a gratuity to any such servant.

  12. No person shall make use of insulting or abusive language to any tramway officer or servant while in the execution of his duty, or obstruct any such officer while in the execution of his duty, or make use of indecent or blasphemous language on any part of the tramway.

  13. No person shall commit any nuisance, or gamble on any part of the tramway, or do any act which shall wilfully interfere with the comfort of any passenger.

  14. No person suffering from any infectious disorder shall travel, or attempt to travel, upon any carriage on the tramway, or enter upon the tramway premises without the Manager’s permission. The Manager may refuse to carry any such person.

  15. No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney-carriage, omnibus, express, or other public vehicle shall ply for hire within the tramway premises without a license in writing from the Chairman, or some person authorized by him to issue such licenses.

  16. No person will be allowed to come upon any tramway platform for the purpose of removing any passenger or luggage, unless engaged by a passenger for such purpose; and no person will be allowed to come upon any tramway premises for the purpose of soliciting custom or hire.

  17. No person shall sell, or attempt to sell, any article on any of the premises of a tramway or train, without the consent of the Manager.

  18. No goods will be received for carriage, or carried upon a tramway, except upon the following conditions:—

(1.) That a “consignment note,” on a form to be obtained from the person in charge of the station, properly filled in and signed by or on behalf of the consignor, is handed to the officer taking delivery of the goods at the time of their delivery.

(2.) That the person delivering the goods obtains at the same time a written receipt for the same, signed by the officer to whom they are delivered.

  1. The Chairman will not be responsible for any loss or damage in respect to any goods received for carriage, or carried on a tramway or train, under any of the following circumstances, that is to say,—

(1.) If the above-mentioned consignment note is not delivered with the goods, or the receipt not obtained for the same;

(2.) If the goods are wrongly or insufficiently described in the consignment note;

(3.) If the goods are allowed to remain on the premises of the tramway for more than twelve working-hours after their arrival at the station to which they are addressed;

(4.) If they are put into packages described as “empties;”

(5.) If they are insufficiently or insecurely packed, or if articles liable by breakage or leakage to damage one another are packed in the same package;

(6.) If the loss or damage arises from the act of God, civil commotions, Queen’s enemies, or from fire (except from the tramway engines or apparatus), or from accidental delays in transit occurring from either of these causes;

(7.) Unless the claim for such loss or damage be specified in writing, and within seven days after the due time of delivery.

  1. No person shall place or carry in or upon any part of a train, or deposit in any waiting-room or shed used for passengers, any dangerous or explosive goods; and no person shall consign by tramway, or deposit on the tramway premises, any such goods without distinctly marking “Dangerous” on the outside of such goods, and specifying the particulars on a consignment note. The following are, amongst others, declared to be dangerous goods:—

Benzoline and all other dangerous oils, bisulphide of carbon, blasting-powders, bleaching liquids, bromine, cartridges, chloride of sulphur,



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1884, No 85





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🏘️ Carnarvon-Sanson Tramway By-laws (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
18 July 1884
By-laws, Carnarvon-Sanson Tramway, Passenger Conduct, Safety, Cargo