1424
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

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GOODS.

REGULATIONS—continued.

(28.) Private Stores and Sidings.
Where the loading or unloading of traffic is done by owners at private stores and sidings, the Department will take no responsibility for the condition of the goods or for delivery of quantities or weights as declared by owners.
At private sidings all loading and unloading must be done by owners or consignees. For each loading or unloading done by the Department 1s. per ton will be charged. Demurrage at the rate of 10s. per 4-wheel truck and 20s. per double-bogie truck per day or part of a day will be charged on trucks not loaded or unloaded within five working hours after arrival; or the goods may be removed, unloaded, and stored at the usual rates, at the option of the Department, and at the risk and expense of the owner.
Goods hauled between private sidings or between any private stores or sidings and other sheds or sidings at the same station will be charged 1s. per ton.
No consignment of less than 1 ton 10cwt. will be delivered at or received from private stores or sidings.
Holders of private sidings are held responsible for the safe custody of railway property of any kind while in their sidings, and must give up the same in good order as required.

(29.) Weighing.
When weights are supplied to any persons requiring them, the following charges will be made:—
Wool, rabbitskins, and sheepskins, in bales, 4d. per bale.
Sheepskins in bundles, ½d. per bundle.
Grain, ½d. per bag.
Potatoes, &c., ½d. per cwt.
Other goods, 1d. per cwt.
When goods are weighed on the truck weighbridge, and the weights given are per truck-load, 1s. per truck-load will be charged. Double-bogie trucks will be charged 2s.
Goods carried by railway, 3d. per load (cart weighbridge).
Goods not carried by railway, 6d. per load (cart weighbridge).
The Railway Department may refuse to supply weights.

(30.) Stock, Implements, Dogs, Poultry, Produce, &c., exhibited at Agricultural, Horticultural, Dog and Poultry Shows; and Entire Horses exhibited at Horse Parades.
Stock, implements, dogs, poultry, produce, &c., consigned for exhibition at Agricultural, Horticultural, Dog and Poultry Shows, and entire horses consigned for exhibition at Horse Parades, will be charged ordinary rates going to the Show or Parade; such rates must be prepaid. Returning from the Show or parade they will be carried as follows:—
For all exhibits which may have been sold, ordinary rates will be charged.
If part of a consignment is sold, the balance, if returned to the original sending station within one month from the closing of the Show or Parade, will, on production of a certificate in writing from the Secretary that such balance is unsold, be carried back free, but at owners’ risk.
If the whole of a consignment is returned unsold to the original sending station within one month from the closing of the Show or Parade, the exhibits will, on production of a certificate in writing from the Secretary that they are all unsold, be carried back free, but at owners’ risk, and one-half of the railway freight paid for conveyance to the Show or Parade will be refunded.
All loading, unloading, collection, and delivery to be performed by the owners at their own risk and expense.
Poultry-pens and -coops for use at poultry-shows will be conveyed under this regulation.

(31.) Threshing-machines, Chaff-cutters, Hay-presses, with Engines (Portable or Traction).
Threshing-machines, chaff-cutters, and hay-presses, with engines (portable or traction), consigned to country stations for threshing, chaff-cutting, or pressing purposes, will, if returned within two months, from the original receiving station to the original sending station, be carried back at half the ordinary rates.