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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 65]

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GOODS.

REGULATIONS—continued.
thickness, the full over-all measurement will be charged for—i.e., the board will be
taken to measure as if its greatest width and thickness were uniform throughout the
entire width and thickness of the board.

In computing the sizes of sawn timber, whether dressed or undressed, fractional
parts less than one-eighth of an inch in width or thickness will be reckoned as one-
eighth of an inch.

Round timber: Trade measurement; computed according to Hoppus's tables of
trade measurement.

Odd lengths of 6in. and upwards are to be counted as a foot in measuring
the length of timber; less than 6in. are to be omitted.

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 100ft. timber.

The Railway Department may require all loading and unloading to be done by
the owner. For each loading or unloading done by the Railway Department 3d.
per 100 superficial feet additional will be charged.

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

(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 bond fide drover and his dogs will be allowed to accompany each consign-
ment of not less than three trucks of live-stock. He will be furnished with a
free return pass for himself and his dogs, available for a week. In cases where
the stock is conveyed by more than one train a return pass will be issued for
each train. The drover must travel by the same train as the stock, otherwise a
pass will not be issued.

When a consignment of less than three trucks of live stock is sent by a goods
train and a drover desires to accompany it, he may be permitted to do so on pay-
ment of second-class fare for himself and ordinary rates for his dogs, if any.

Drovers must ride in the Guard's van or a second-class carriage, as may be
directed by the Department.

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.

Double-bogie wagons will be charged double rates.

Cattle, Calves, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs, in small lots,
May be charged at truck-load rate, or at the following rates:—

When a truck is only partially occupied by a consignment of live-stock the Depart-
ment reserves to itself the right to fill it up to its full carrying-capacity with other
stock. Where a truck is specially required by sender the truck rate will be charged.

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

The Department reserves the right to supply single-floored trucks for the con-
veyance of sheep, &c., when double-floored trucks are not available, and in such
cases the District Manager may arrange to charge two single-floored trucks as one
truck.

Calves, sheep, goats, and pigs properly secured in crates, baskets, or sacks, so as
to prevent injury to other goods, may be sent as goods, Class A.