APRIL 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 625

Customs Appointments.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 21st March, 1895.

THE following appointments in this department have been made by the Hon. the Commissioner:—
W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of
"The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894."

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

Henry Stirling, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, seaman. Filed on the 28th day of March, 1895.

Henry Alberti Manashervitz, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, picture-framer. Filed on the 28th day of March, 1895.

Mary Stephen Burnett, late of Lower Hutt, in the Provincial District of Wellington, married woman. Filed on the 28th day of March, 1895.

J. K. WARBURTON,
Public Trustee.

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares and Charges
in Force upon the New Zealand Government Railways.

IN accordance with "The Government Railways Act, 1894," I, Richard John Seddon, acting for the Minister for Railways, do hereby make the following alterations in and additions to the scale of fares, rates, and charges on the New Zealand Government railways, to come into force on and after the 8th day of April, 1895:—

PART I.—PASSENGERS: GENERAL FARES AND REGULATIONS.

Students of Agricultural and Technical Colleges travelling for Field Instruction.

On Fridays and Saturdays students of agricultural and technical colleges, in parties of not less than ten, when travelling for field instruction, will be charged single fares for the double journey. Tickets will be available for return up to the following Monday. Application for this concession must be made to the District Manager.

PART III.—GOODS: CLASSIFIED RATES.

The rates for goods of Class F will be as follows:—
Up to 7 miles, classified rates as at present.
8 miles, 8s. 6d. per truck.
From 9 to 12 miles, 9s. per truck.
From 13 to 30 miles, classified rates as at present.
For each additional mile over 30 miles and up to 80 miles, 4d. per truck will be added to the rate for 30 miles.
For each additional mile over 80 miles and up to 150 miles, 3d. per truck will be added to the rate for 80 miles.
For each additional five miles or fraction thereof beyond 150 miles, 1s. 3d. per truck will be added to the rate for 150 miles.

PART III.—GOODS: REGULATIONS.

(5.) Class F.—Hay, Straw, Chaff, Turnips, Firewood, &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 the charge will be, per four-wheel truck, 5s. When loading by consignors is done negligently, and so as to entail reloading on the road, £1 per truck may be charged for reloading. When cranage is charged for or provided, half rates only will be charged for each loading or unloading done by the department.

Beet, carrots, mangolds, pumpkins, turnips, pressed chaff, pressed hay, pressed straw, firewood, house-blocks, posts and rails, lime gas refuse, lime from local kilns consigned to country stations for agricultural purposes or to ship for export, lime from local kilns for cement-making, limestone, animal manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, in quantities under a truck-load, will be charged as a truck, or as Class E. Other goods of Class F under a truck-load will be charged as a truck, or as Class E, rate and a half. A four-wheel truck load must not exceed 6 tons in weight; the load of a double-bogie truck, containing firewood, house-blocks, posts and rails, lime gas refuse, lime from local kilns consigned to country stations for agricultural purposes or to ship for export, lime from local kilns for cement-making, limestone, animal manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, must not exceed 16 tons in weight, and the load of a double-bogie truck containing other goods of Class F must not exceed 12 tons in weight. Any truck loaded with more than the quantities specified will be charged rate and a quarter.

Double-bogie trucks containing firewood, house-blocks, posts and rails, lime gas refuse, lime from local kilns consigned to country stations for agricultural purposes or to ship for export, lime from local kilns for cement-making, limestone, animal manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, will be charged two and two-third (2⅔) times the classified or local rates; double-bogie trucks containing other goods of Class F will be charged double the classified or local rates, and the loading charges in each case will be made on the same basis.

Trucks will be allowed to remain at limekilns for eight working-hours, for the purpose of loading, after which demurrage will be charged at the rate of 10s. per truck per day or part of a day.

Any time from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. counted as working-hours.

PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES.

KAWAKAWA SECTION.

The local rate for goods of Class F is hereby cancelled.

KAIHU SECTION.

The clause stating that goods of Class F will be charged as Class M is hereby cancelled.

AUCKLAND SECTION.

Tallow from Mount Eden to Westfield will be charged 3s. 6d. per ton; minimum charge, 7s.

GREYMOUTH—HOKITIKA SECTION.

Goods of Classes E and N will be charged as Class D, except otherwise specified. Goods of Classes F and Q will be charged as Class F, except otherwise specified.

HURUNUI—BLUFF SECTION.

Pelts, Gore to Woolston.

Pelts, from Gore to Woolston, will be charged 35s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 4 tons per truck.

PART V.—CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS.

PART VI.—WHARVES.

KAWAKAWA SECTION.

Opua Wharf Station Rates.

Classes F, N, P, Q, per ton .. .. .. 0 3

WHANGAREI SECTION.

Whangarei Railway Wharf.

Rates.

Classes F, N, P, Q, per ton .. .. .. 0 3

KAIHU SECTION.

Dargaville Wharf.

Rates.

Classes F, N, P, Q, per ton .. .. .. 1 0

AUCKLAND SECTION.

Helensville Wharf.

Rates.

Classes F, N, P, Q, per ton .. .. .. 0 6

Onehunga Wharf.

Rates.

Goods, Class E, not otherwise specified, per ton .. 1 0
Goods of Classes F, N, P, Q, per ton .. .. 0 3

NELSON SECTION.

Nelson Wharf.

Rates, including Labour.

Classes E and F, not otherwise specified, per ton .. 1 6

As witness my hand, this fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

R. J. SEDDON,
Acting for Minister for Railways.

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