✨ Railway Freight Regulations
1744
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 93
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GOODS.
REGULATIONS—continued.
(3.) Scale for Small Lots of Class E Goods, Poultry, Butter, Eggs, Honey, Beeswax, Game, Dead Rabbits, Cheese, Fish, Fresh or Cured Bacon or Hams, Rabbit-, Sheep-, and Calf-skins, Wool, Hides, Lard, Fat, Tallow, Meat, Bread, Seeds, Vegetables, Plants, and Shrubs, of 1cwt. or under.
| Where the rate per ton exceeds .. | .. | 8/ | 10/ | 12/ | 14/ | 16/ | 20/ | 24/ | 28/ | 32/ | 36/ | 40/ | 44/ | 48/ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| But does not exceed .. | 8/ | 10/ | 12/ | 14/ | 16/ | 20/ | 24/ | 28/ | 32/ | 36/ | 40/ | 44/ | 48/ | 52/ |
| 1b. | /9 | /9 | /9 | 1/ | 1/ | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/4 | 1/4 | 1/6 | 1/6 | 1/9 | 1/9 | 2/ |
| 28 | /10 | /10 | /10 | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/5 | 1/7 | 1/9 | 1/9 | 1/11 | 1/11 | 2/2 | 2/2 | 2/8 |
| 56 | /11 | /11 | /11 | 1/2 | 1/4 | 1/9 | 1/11 | 2/3 | 2/3 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/8 | 2/8 | 3/4 |
| 84 | 1/ | 1/ | 1/ | 1/3 | 1/6 | 2/ | 2/3 | 2/8 | 2/8 | 2/11 | 2/11 | 3/2 | 3/2 | 4/ |
| 112 |
| Where the rate per ton exceeds .. | 52/ | 56/ | 60/ | 64/ | 68/ | 72/ | 76/ | 80/ | 84/ | 88/ | 92/ | 96/ | 100/ | 104/ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| But does not exceed .. | 56/ | 60/ | 64/ | 68/ | 72/ | 76/ | 80/ | 84/ | 88/ | 92/ | 96/ | 100 | 104/ | 108/ |
| 1b. | 2/ | 2/3 | 2/3 | 2/6 | 2/9 | 3/ | 3/3 | 3/3 | 3/6 | 3/6 | 3/9 | 3/9 | 4/ | 4/ |
| 28 | 2/8 | 3/ | 3/ | 3/3 | 3/9 | 4/ | 4/3 | 4/6 | 4/9 | 4/9 | 5/ | 5/ | 5/3 | 5/9 |
| 56 | 3/4 | 4/ | 4/ | 4/ | 4/6 | 5/ | 5/3 | 5/9 | 6/ | 6/ | 6/6 | 6/6 | 6/9 | 7/6 |
| 84 | 4/ | 4/9 | 4/9 | 4/9 | 5/6 | 6/4 | 6/4 | 7/1 | 7/10 | 7/10 | 8/8 | 8/8 | 9/6 | 10/3 |
| 112 |
(4.) Class E.—Grain and other Agricultural Produce.
Minimum quantity, 1½ tons. Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum, or at rate and a half Class E, not exceeding the rate for Class D.
At Auckland, Onehunga, Spit, Wellington, Foxton, Wanganui, New Plymouth Breakwater, Waitara, Greymouth, Westport, Nelson, Nelson Port, Picton, Blenheim, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Breakwater, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Invercargill, and the Bluff, 6d. per ton will be charged in addition to the classified rates, except at private sidings at those stations, or except local rates otherwise provide.
At all other stations, when the loading or unloading is done by the owners, or when loaded by owners into sheds, owing to trucks not being available after reasonable notice is given, the classified rates only will be charged. When the loading or unloading is done by the Railway Department 6d. per ton will be charged for each operation.
At all private stores or sidings the loading or unloading shall be done by the owners. The following method of computing the tonnage of grain will be followed :—
Wheat—10 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Barley—12 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Oats—14 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Flour, Bran, and Pollard—2,200lb. to the ton.
Oats (crushed) and other grain by actual weight.
60lb. of wheat, or 50lb. of barley, or 40lb. of oats count as 1 bushel.
When grain is in bags holding more than 240lb. each the full contents of such bags of grain will be charged rate and one-eighth. The consignment note should state the number of such bags, failing which the charge will be made on the whole consignment. The tonnage on which such charge is made will be computed in the manner prescribed above.
The number of bags and the quantity they contain must be declared upon the consignment notes.
(5.) Class F.—Hay, Straw, Chaff, Turnips, &c.
The Railway Department may require all loading and unloading to be done by the owner. For each loading or unloading done by the department 5s. per truck will be charged. When loading by consignors is done negligently, and so as to entail reloading on the road, £1 per truck may be charged for reloading.
Beet, carrots, mangolds, pumpkins, turnips, pressed chaff, pressed hay, and pressed straw in quantities under a truck-load will be charged as a truck, or as
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