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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63]

PARCELS RATES AND REGULATIONS.

Packages containing dangerous goods (other than fuse,
gunpowder, and safety small-arm cartridges, in packages not
exceeding 14lb., properly packed according to trade usage)
will not be accepted for carriage through Parcels Depart-
ment, but must in all cases be forwarded through Goods
Department at goods rates.

Cancelled: Bicycles, tricycles, and bicycle and tricycle
wheels, rate and a quarter.

Bicycles, complete, not packed in cases, to seat one rider,
each machine to be charged as 28 lb., rate and a quarter.
For every seat after the first, on each machine seating more
than one rider, 50 per cent. additional to be charged.

Bicycle-wheels, tricycles, tricycle-wheels, packed or un-
packed, and bicycles packed in cases, will be charged rate
and a quarter.

CALVES, SHEEP, GOATS, PIGS (SUCH AS ARE ORDINARILY
SENT TO MARKET FOR CONSUMPTION), PUPPIES, RABBITS,
AND OTHER SMALL ANIMALS AND POULTRY.

Properly secured in crates, baskets, or sacks, so as to
prevent injury to other goods, will be carried at parcel
rates.

PART III.—GOODS: REGULATIONS.

(9.) CLASS N.—SPECIAL.

Minimum quantity, 4 tons, except for offal, for which it
will be 2 tons. Any less quantity will be charged as such
minimum, or at the classified rates for Class E (rate and a
half), except in the case of waste-paper, rags in bales or
bundles, sacking, cotton-waste, and other fibrous material
for paper-making, consigned to paper-mills, which will be
charged as such minimum or at half-rate, Class C.

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.

(10.) CLASS P.—NATIVE COAL (ANTHRACITE OR BITUMINOUS),

ETC.

Minimum quantity, 4 tons, except otherwise specified
below. Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum,
or at the classified rates for Class E (rate and a half).

The minimum quantity of bonedust, guano, manure-salt,
rock-salt, salt for agricultural or pastoral purposes, soot, and
manure other than street, stable, and farmyard 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 at Class P rate on the goods specified (in-
cluding 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.

(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 E (rate and a half), 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.

PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES.

AUCKLAND SECTION.

Pumice for Export.

Pumice for export will be charged 6s. per ton for con-
veyance from Firth's Siding to Auckland, including the use
of tarpaulins. Minimum quantity, 5 tons per truck.

HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION.

Pelts, Timaru to Woolston.

Pelts, from Timaru to Woolston, will be charged 20s. per
ton. Minimum quantity, 4 tons per truck.

INVERCARGILL JETTY.

Gravel consigned from Invercargill Jetty to country
stations will be charged ordinary rates, one mile for the
Jetty branch-line being added to the mileage from Inver-
cargill. Minimum quantity, 6 tons per truck.

SHIPS' GOODS ON PORT LINES.

Cardboard boxes, packed, will be carried by measurement
at half-rates on the following port lines: Onehunga-Auck-
land, Picton-Blenheim, Lyttelton-Christchurch, Port
Chalmers-Dunedin, Breakwater-New Plymouth.

PART V.—CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS, LIVE-STOCK,

PARCELS, AND LUGGAGE.

All goods, live-stock, parcels, and luggage carried on the
railways will be charged under the class specified in this
classification.

If any goods are required to be carried which are not
mentioned in this classification they shall be carried as
Class A until the Railway Department shall determine in
what class they shall be charged.

If any package contains any of the goods specified in this
list as "dangerous," the word "dangerous" must be marked
on the package, and full particulars of the contents thereof
must be specified on the consignment-note. The railway is
not bound to carry any such goods.

Packages containing "dangerous goods" (other than fuse,
gunpowder, and safety small-arm cartridges, in packages
not exceeding 14 lb. in weight, and properly packed according
to trade usage) will not be accepted for carriage through the
Parcels Department, but must in all cases be forwarded
through Goods Department at goods rates.

Where goods are described as "packed," it is intended
that they shall be properly and securely packed in cases,
casks, bags, crates, or otherwise, for safe transit by rail, in
the manner in which such goods are usually packed in the
trade, and that they shall not be carried loose or in bulk.

Except in the case of goods carried by measurement, the
words "rate and a quarter," "rate and a half," or "double
rate" mean that the classified or local rate for the convey-
ance of any article in the following classification to which
any such words apply shall be increased by "one-fourth," or
by "one-half," or "doubled," as the case may be. When
any such goods (except dangerous goods) are carried by
measurement, such increase of the classified or local rate
shall not apply. The increased rate shall apply to dangerous
goods in all cases. The word "half-rate," where specified,
means that the "classified rate" per ton will be halved, and
applies to that rate only, except in cases where goods charged
at the "local rate" are carried by measurement, when the
"local rate" will be halved.

Class.

Ammonia gas, compressed, in solid drawn steel tubes.
Owners' risk. Dangerous .. .. .. A

Cancelled—Bicycles, packed. Owners' risk .. A
Bicycles and bicycle-wheels, unpacked. Rate
and a quarter. Owners' risk. As parcels, see Part II.
Bicycles, complete (not packed in cases), to seat one
rider, each machine as for 28lb. Rate and a
quarter. Owners' risk .. As parcels, see Part II.
Tandems, triplets, quadruplets, &c. (not packed in
cases). Owners' risk. .. As parcels, see Part II.
Bicycles, packed in cases (if sent through parcels,
rate and a quarter). Owners' risk .. .. A
Bicycle-wheels, packed (if sent through parcels, rate
and a quarter). Owners' risk .. .. A
Bicycle-wheels, not packed. Rate and a quarter.
Owners' risk. .. .. As parcels, see Part II.

Cancelled—Bottles, empty, not otherwise specified.
Owners' risk .. .. .. .. N
Bottles, empty, old, collected in New Zealand.
Owners' risk .. .. .. .. N
Bottles, empty, packed, not otherwise specified.
Owners' risk .. .. .. .. C

Cancelled—Cement, manufactured from colonial
products. Owners' risk. Rate and a half; but
in no case are total charges to exceed Class D N
Cement manufactured from colonial products. Owners'
risk. Rate and a half .. .. .. E

Cancelled—Charcoal. Rate and a half; but in
no case are total charges to exceed Class D.
Owners' risk .. .. .. .. N
Charcoal, crushed. Owners' risk .. .. N
Charcoal, crushed or uncrushed. Owners' risk .. N

Daisy Carts in pieces, packed in three packages, total
weight of each cart not to exceed 2 cwt. Double
rate. Owners' risk .. .. .. A