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over such lines will be charged at the classified or local
rates specified in Parts III. and IV. of Scale of Charges.

PART V. - CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS, LIVE-
STOCK, PARCELS, AND LUGGAGE.

Bottles, empty, not otherwise specified. Owners'
risk
Cancelled: Bottles, empty, packed, not otherwise
specified
Brass, scrap. Owners' risk
Cartridges, safety small-arm, packed. Owners' risk.
Dangerous. (See also Part II.)
Cartridges, not otherwise specified, packed. Double
rate. Owners' risk. Dangerous
Cancelled: Cartridges, packed. Double rate. Owners'
risk. Dangerous. (See also Part II.)
Chaff. Owners' risk
Cancelled: Chaff, if pressed, rate and a half. Owners'
risk
Coke. Owners' risk
Cancelled: Coke, rate and a half (but in no case are
total charges to exceed Class D). Owners' risk
Cotton-waste and other fibrous materials for paper-
making. Owners' risk
Flax, dressed, pressed. If unpressed, rate and a half.
(Loose dressed flax will not be accepted for car-
riage)
Flax, native, dressed, screw-pressed. Otherwise, rate
and a half. (Loose dressed flax will not be accepted
for carriage)
Cancelled: Flax, dressed, pressed. If unpressed,
rate and a half
Cancelled: Flax, native, dressed, screw-pressed.
Otherwise, rate and a half
Flax straw. Owners' risk. (Loose flax straw will
not be accepted for carriage)
Cancelled: Flax straw. If pressed, double rate.
Owners' risk
Laths (native timber), in truck-loads (measurement
to be calculated per bundle)
Cancelled: Laths (native timber) in truck-loads
Lead, scrap. Owners' risk
Cancelled: Paper, waste, for paper-making, con-
signed to a paper-mill. Half-rate
Pewter, scrap. Owners' risk
Rags, in bales or bundles. Owners' risk
Cancelled: Rags, in bales, not for export. Half-
rates
Cancelled: Rags
Rope, old. Owners' risk
Sacking, old, for paper-making. Owners' risk
Cancelled: Sacking, old, not otherwise specified
Cancelled: Sacking, waste-paper, cotton-waste, and
other fibrous material for paper-making, consigned
to a paper-mill. Half-rate
Sheepskins, green, in bundles not exceeding 1cwt.
Sheepskins, green, loose, or in bundles exceeding
1cwt. Owners to load or unload. Owners' risk
Cancelled: Sheepskins, green, in bundles not ex-
ceeding 1cwt. If loose, or in bundles exceeding
1cwt., rate and a quarter
Cancelled: Sheepskins, green, loose or in bundles,
between private sidings
Straw-flax. Owners' risk. (Loose straw-flax will
not be accepted for carriage)
Cancelled: Straw-flax. If pressed, double rate.
Owners' risk
Tow, dressed, pressed. If unpressed, rate and a half.
(Loose tow will not be accepted for carriage)
Tow, native, dressed, pressed. If unpressed, rate and
a half. (Loose tow will not be accepted for car-
riage)
Cancelled: Tow, dressed, pressed. If unpressed, rate
and a half
Cancelled: Tow, native, dressed, pressed. If un-
pressed, rate and a half
Turpentine. Owners' risk
Cancelled: Turpentine, spirits of. Owners' risk
Cancelled: Turpentine. Owners' risk

PART VI.-WHARVES.
AUCKLAND SECTION.-PAEROA WHARF.

Rates.
For every vehicle, four-wheel
For every vehicle, two-wheel

As witness my hand, this eighteenth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.
A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

done by the Railway Department 1s. per ton will be charged.
When cranage is charged for or provided, 6d. per ton only
will be charged for each loading or unloading done by the
department.

(11.) CLASS Q.-ROAD MATERIALS, BROWN COALS, ETC.

Railway sleepers, minimum quantity 6 tons per four-wheel
truck and 16 tons per double-bogie truck. The minimum
quantity of other goods will be 4 tons per four-wheel truck,
and 15 tons per double-bogie truck. Any less quantities will
be charged as such minimum, or at the classified rates for
Class D, except in the case of bones, which will be charged
as such minimum, or as Class P. The minimum quantity
of bones to be charged at Class P rates will be 1½ tons; any
less quantity will be charged as such minimum or as Class E
(actual weight), single rate. In no case, however, are the
charges on bones at Class P rate (including labour and
covering) to exceed the total charges under Class E (actual
weight), single rate.

The Railway Department may require loading or unload-
ing to be done by the owner. For each loading or unloading
done by the Railway Department 1s. per ton will be charged.
When cranage is charged for or provided, 6d. per ton only
will be charged for each loading or unloading done by the
department.

(20.) CARTS, DRAYS, EXPRESS WAGONS, AND WAGONS,
EITHER SET UP OR IN PIECES, EACH.

Per mile.
s. d.
For any distance of not more than 10 miles 1 0
For every mile after the first 10 miles .. 0 3
Minimum charge .. .. .. .. 10 0

Heavy wagons, over 1 ton in weight, rate and a half.

When two or more vehicles, as above, either set up or in
pieces, consigned from one consignor to one consignee, are
loaded together in one four-wheeled truck, they will be
charged full rates for the first vehicle and half rates for
each additional vehicle, but will be carried at owners' risk.

A double-bogie truck will be treated as two four-wheeled
trucks.

PART IV.-GOODS: LOCAL RATES.

AUCKLAND SECTION.

All descriptions of merchandise, timber, minerals, or live-
stock, not otherwise specified, hauled between the railway-
station and the railway wharf at Auckland will be charged
2s. 6d. per truck. Double-bogie trucks will be charged
double rate.

Pumice and Waikato coals will be hauled between the
railway-station and the railway wharf at Auckland free of
charge.

Bricks consigned by rail from country stations for ship-
ment at Auckland will be hauled from the railway-station
to the railway wharf at Auckland free of charge.

Lime and sulphur, loaded at Auckland, previously carried
to Auckland by rail, will be hauled from the railway-station
to the railway wharf at Auckland free of charge.

NAPIER-TARANAKI SECTION.

The maximum rate for firewood consigned from Wood-
ville-Kopua and intermediate stations to Hastings-Spit and
intermediate stations will be 30s. per truck of 6 tons. This
rate will operate until 30th September, 1897.

Ashes consigned to Matahiwi will be charged at the classi-
fied rates for Class Q—minimum quantity, 4 tons per four-
wheel truck; any less quantity will be charged as such
minimum or as Class P. The minimum quantity to be
charged at Class P rates will be 1½ tons; any less quantity
will be charged as such minimum or as Class E (actual
weight), single rate.

PICTON SECTION.

The maximum charge for goods of Classes A, B, C, D con-
signed to Picton will be 7s. 6d. per ton weight or measure-
ment, at the option of the Railway Department, including
wharfage and labour at ship's side at Picton when such
goods are for export.

HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION.

Invercargill Jetty and Railway-station.

All timber booked from or to country stations to or from
this jetty will be charged at ordinary rates, one mile for the
branch line between Invercargill Station and Jetty being
added to the mileage to or from Invercargill.

DISTRICT RAILWAYS.

The rates for conveyance of goods on district railways, as
specified on page 64 of scale of charges, are hereby can-
celled. Goods of Classes A, B, C, and D conveyed on and