1796
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

PART I.—PASSENGERS:
GENERAL FARES AND REGULATIONS.
TOURIST EXCURSION TICKETS.

Tourist excursion tickets (first class) will be issued on any day (Sundays excepted) between the 1st November and 31st March, as under:—

(a.) Available over lines of both Islands for six weeks from date of issue .. .. .. £ 8
(b.) Available over North Island lines for four weeks from date of issue .. .. .. 5
(c.) Available over Middle Island lines for four weeks from date of issue .. .. .. 6

These tickets are available over Government lines only, and are obtainable as follows: a and b at Auckland, Napier, Wanganui, and Wellington; a and c at Lyttelton, Christchurch, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Bluff Railway-stations.

Tourists’ excursion tickets may be extended for any period not exceeding four weeks on payment of an extension fee of £1 10s. per week or portion of a week. Persons desiring an extension of time must apply to the Traffic Manager at Auckland, Napier, Wanganui, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, or Invercargill, before the expiration of the original ticket, and deliver up the original ticket together with the proper extension fee; the extension ticket will then be issued.

LOCAL FARES AND REGULATIONS.
HURUNUI–BLUFF SECTION.
Through Booking to Mount Cook.

Return excursion tickets for the through journey by rail to Fairlie, thence by coach to Mount Cook Hermitage, will be issued between the 1st November and 31st March, available for return for two months from date of issue (subject to the coach portion of the journey being completed on or before 30th April of each year).

Return Fares
(including Coach-fares).
First Class. Second Class.
From Dunedin .. .. £5 15 0 £5 2 6
From Christchurch .. 5 5 0 4 17 6

The journey may be broken, at any station at which the train is timed to stop, after travelling twenty-five miles from the original starting-station, provided the specified time for which the tickets are available is not exceeded.

The Cold Lakes and the Glacial District of Otago.

Return excursion tickets, available for two months from date of issue, will be issued between 1st November and 31st March, as under:—

To Kingston, Lake Wakatipu (including saloon steamer-passage, Kingston to Queenstown and back) :—

To Pembroke, Lake Wanaka (including saloon steamer-passage, Kingston to Queenstown and back, and coach, Queenstown to Pembroke and back) :—

From Dunedin (via Waimea Line only), 70s. (first class).

The journey may be broken, at any station at which the train is timed to stop, after travelling twenty-five miles from the original starting-station, provided the specified time for which the tickets are available is not exceeded.

Round-trip Tours through Central Otago.

Round-trip tickets, available for two months from date of issue, will be issued between 1st November and 31st March as under:—

No. Route. First-class Fare.* £ s. d.

1. From Dunedin to Queenstown (via Kingston); return to Dunedin via Wanaka and Lawrence; or vice versâ .. .. .. 4 15 0
2. From Dunedin to Queenstown (via Kingston); return to Dunedin via Arrow and Lawrence; or vice versâ .. .. .. 4 0 0
3. From Dunedin to Queenstown (via Kingston); return to Dunedin via Wanaka and Hyde; or vice versâ .. .. .. 5 10 0
4. From Dunedin to Queenstown (via Kingston); return to Dunedin via Arrow and Hyde; or vice versâ .. .. .. 4 10 0

• Including steamer- and coach-fares,

The journey may be broken, at any station at which the train is timed to stop, after travelling twenty-five miles from the original starting-station, provided the specified time for which the tickets are available is not exceeded.

Day Excursions to Taieri Beach.

By rail to Henley or Titri, thence by steam-launch along the Taieri River to the Beach:—

Return excursion tickets, available for day of issue only, will be issued between 1st November and 31st March, to parties of not less than twenty adults, on any week-day, except Saturdays and general holidays, at the following fares:—

Fares: First class (including rail and steamer):—

From Dunedin .. 5 0 | From Waitahuna .. 6 6
" Mosgiel .. 4 0 | " Lawrence .. 7 0
" Millburn .. 4 0 | " Stirling .. 6 0
" Milton .. 4 6 | " Balclutha .. 6 6

By rail to Henley only, thence by steam-launch along the Taieri River to the Beach:—

Return excursion tickets, available for day of issue only, will be issued from Dunedin to Taieri Beach on Saturdays, between 1st November and 31st March.

Fares: First class (including rail and steamer), 6s.

PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES.
HURUNUI–BLUFF SECTION.

Goods of Classes A, B, C, D (Branch Lines).

The clause on page 64 of Scale of Charges, stating that one penny per ton per mile will be charged in addition to the classified rates on goods of Classes A, B, C, D, carried on branch lines, is hereby cancelled.

As witness my hand, this twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

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

IN pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling me under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and any amendment thereof, and also of “The Government Railways Act, 1894,” I, Alfred Jerome Cadman, the Minister for Railways, do hereby make the following alterations in the scale of fares, rates, and charges in force on the New Zealand Government railways open for traffic, such alterations to come into force on and after the 16th day of November, 1896:—

PART I. — PASSENGERS: GENERAL FARES AND REGULATIONS.
SEASON TICKETS.

16. Annual season tickets, available over the New Zealand Government railway-lines, will be issued at the following rates, viz. :—

• These tickets will be transferred for business purposes temporarily once in any month during their currency from the holder to a member or employé of the same firm or company on payment of a transfer-fee of 10s. on the occasion of each transfer. Application for transfer must be made to the District Manager. The ticket to be transferred, together with the transfer-fee, 10s., must be deposited when application for transfer is made.

Annual tickets as above are not available by the New Zealand Midland Railway Company’s trains between Greymouth and Brunner.

As witness my hand, this twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

Bonus for Production of Mineral Manure.—Notice No. 445.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 25th July, 1896.

A BONUS of £200 is hereby offered for the discovery and working within the colony of a deposit or deposits of marketable mineral manure.

The following are the conditions under which the bonus is offered and will be paid:—

1. That the raw material be easily accessible, and within reasonable distance of a road or railway.