JUNE 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1017

(13.) Write any obscene or improper language on any
part of a station or carriage.
(14.) Commit any nuisance upon any part of a station or
carriage.
(15.) Wilfully do any act interfering with the comfort or
convenience of other passengers.
(16.) Without the special permission of some servant of
the company for the time being engaged upon a
train, travel in a carriage of a superior class to
that for which his ticket was issued.
(17.) Interfere with or impede any servant in the per-
formance of his duty.
(18.) Give or offer any gratuity to any servant.
(19.) Sell or offer for sale any free-pass ticket or portion
of a return ticket.
(20.) Without a license from the company, issued by the
manager, or otherwise than as by any such license
provided, sell any articles of any kind whatsoever
in any carriage forming part of a train.

XII. Every passenger shall be entitled to the carriage in
the train in which he travels of his ordinary luggage, not ex-
ceeding 84lb. in weight, free of charge, but shall pay to the
company freight for any excess above that weight, according
to the scale set forth in the schedule of rates for the time
being in force.

XIII. All luggage taken by a passenger or placed at his
request in the carriage in which he travels shall be deemed
to be under such passenger's own personal control and at his
own exclusive risk during transit, and the company shall
be under no liability in respect thereof, and the passenger to
whom such luggage belongs, or who shall have control
thereof as aforesaid, shall, immediately after the arrival of
the train at the station at which he leaves it, remove from
the train all such luggage, and any such luggage left by him
in the train shall remain at his sole risk until removed as
hereinafter provided.

XIV. Every passenger desiring that any luggage shall be
carried in the train in which he travels (other than luggage
under his own personal control) shall, not less than half
an hour before the hour fixed by the time-table for the
departure of such train, deliver such luggage to a station
porter, to be weighed and labelled to the passenger's destina-
tion; and it shall be the duty of such passenger to see his
luggage labelled as aforesaid, and he shall, before leaving
the same in charge of a station porter, demand and receive
from such porter a check in such form as the company shall
from time to time adopt and use for the purpose in respect of
each package of such luggage. And the company will not be
responsible for any loss, detention, miscarriage, or damage
to any luggage in respect of which a passenger shall have
failed to demand and receive such check or checks, or shall
otherwise have failed or neglected to comply with this
by-law.

XV. Immediately after the arrival of the train at the
station to which any luggage has to be carried, as aforesaid,
all luggage labelled for such station shall be placed upon the
platform of such station at a place used for that purpose,
and every passenger holding the check or checks for such lug-
age shall, immediately after such arrival as aforesaid, attend
at that part thereof used as aforesaid to receive and remove
such luggage, and shall then receive and remove the same;
but no luggage will be delivered to or shall be removed by
any person claiming the same, except upon his giving up to
the guard of the train or person engaged in delivering such
luggage the check or checks issued in respect thereof; and,
subject as mentioned in by-law No. XVII., [such luggage
shall be at the risk of the owner thereof or the holder of the
check, or from and after the time at which it shall have been
placed upon the platform as aforesaid, and until removed
therefrom as aforesaid, or until its removal as hereunder
provided.

XVI. No servant of the company shall have or be deemed
or assumed to have any authority to undertake any charge
or responsibility in respect of luggage brought to or left upon
any station except such as is specially provided for by these
by-laws.

XVII. Luggage not claimed and removed as hereinbefore
provided within twenty minutes after the same has been
placed upon the platform as aforesaid will be taken to a
luggage-room of the company for safe custody, and the
company is to be entitled to charge 6d. per package, large or
small, for every day or fraction of a day during which it
shall remain in its custody, which sum shall be paid to the
company by the person claiming such luggage before he
shall be entitled to possession of the same; and, as regards
any luggage so claimed, the person claiming the same shall
in all other respects be required to conform to these by-laws
before he becomes entitled to receive the same.

XVIII. Any person who shall have lost any luggage-check
will be required, before the company will deliver to him the
luggage represented by such check, to make a statutory de-
claration in writing of such loss, giving therein the number
(if any) of the check lost and a description of the luggage

claimed; and every such declaration shall also contain such
further particulars as the stationmaster of the station at
which the luggage is claimed shall require, and the claimant
shall also give to the company a guarantee in such form as it
shall prescribe against any loss or damage by reason of
wrong delivery, and except as aforesaid no luggage will be
delivered to any person claiming the same without a return
of the check given in respect thereof.

XVIIIa. The company will not be responsible to the
owner of any luggage carried by it as aforesaid to a greater
value than £10, unless the full value be declared in writing
signed by him in a form provided by the company at the
time when the same was delivered to it for carriage, and
unless freight be paid thereon at the rate of 6d. in the
pound upon such declared value above the said sum of £10;
and in no such case shall the company be responsible for
more than such declared value, and it shall, notwithstanding
any such declaration of value, be the duty of the person
claiming any such luggage, or who shall make any claim in
respect thereof, to prove that the luggage in respect of which
such claim is made was in fact of the declared value at the
least at the time when the declaration was made.

XIX. Luggage not claimed and removed within one
calendar month after having been placed in a luggage-room,
as provided by by-law numbered XVII., or in a store, as pro-
vided by subsection (3) of by-law numbered XXII., shall be
treated as abandoned by the owner, and may at any time
thereafter be sold by the company by auction at the risk of
the owner thereof in such manner, at such time, and subject
to such conditions as the company shall think fit; and for
the purposes of such sale the company may cause any box,
trunk, or other package whatsoever to be opened, and the
contents examined and catalogued, if necessary, for the
purposes of the sale.

XX. The moneys received upon any such sale shall be
applied in payment in the first place of the costs of and
incident to the sale, and in the next place in discharge of
the storage charges upon the luggage sold, and the balance
shall be held by the company for the use of the owner of the
luggage, and be paid over to him on the return of the check
given in respect thereof and on due proof that the person
delivering such check is the person entitled to the said
moneys.

XXI. No claim for compensation for loss of luggage will
in any case be recognised by the company unless made in
writing addressed to the manager, and either delivered to
him at the office of the company in the City of Wellington
or posted to him so addressed within seven days after the
date on which the alleged loss took place; and such writing
shall contain a full description of any address or addresses
upon the said luggage, and the name of the station at
which it was delivered to the company, and that of the
station to which it was addressed, and the number of the
check issued in respect thereof, and a list, as far as prac-
ticable, of the contents of the box, trunk, or other package
alleged to have been lost.

XXII. The foregoing by-laws shall not be deemed, except
subject to the provisions of this by-law, to apply to the
luggage of any passenger joining or leaving a train at a flag-
station, in respect whereof the following regulations shall
apply:—

(1.) The luggage of any passenger joining a train at a
flag-station, except such as he shall take under
his personal control, shall be delivered by him to
the guard of the train, to whom he shall state the
name of the station at which he proposes to leave
the train, and such guard shall, as soon as
practicable, and without unnecessary delay,
attach to each package a label for such station.

(2.) All luggage to be delivered at a flag-station shall, on
the arrival of the train thereat, be placed upon
the platform of such station, and shall thereupon
be and remain at the risk of the owner of such
luggage, whether he be present to take charge of
the same or not. If present, he shall in other
respects comply with the provisions of these by-
laws as far as the same apply. If not present,
and there be a store or shed at such station, the
luggage shall be put into such store or under such
shed, so as to prevent, as far as practicable,
damage by rain or storm, and shall thenceforth
be and remain therein at the risk of the owner as
aforesaid.

(3.) If there be no shed at such station, then such
luggage shall be carried on to the nearest station
at which the same can be stored in a luggage-
room or other place for the reception of goods, and
the provisions of subsection (2) shall apply to
such stored luggage as if the store in which the
same is deposited were a shed at the station to
which the said luggage was originally deliverable.

XXIII. No person shall come upon any platform at any
booking-station for the purpose of removing any passenger's