1890
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 89

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LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC.

Horses and Carriages.

Entire horses, not otherwise specified, will be charged rate and a half, but if allowed to travel in the same horse-box with an additional horse belonging to the same owner ordinary rates will be charged.

Entire race-horses, travelling to and from race-meetings, not requiring a separate box will be charged at the ordinary rate for horses; if a separate box is insisted upon by the owner, rate and a half will be charged.

Shetland ponies, foals one year old and under, mules, and asses, half-rate.

Horses, Shetland and polo ponies, foals, mules, and asses may be sent in cattle trucks, at rates charged for cattle in truck-loads.

The Department reserves to itself the right to load horse-boxes to their full carrying capacity.

When two or more carriages, 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 carriage and half rates for each additional carriage. Where carriages loaded in a four-wheeled truck comprise four-wheeled and two-wheeled vehicles, a four-wheeled carriage must be considered to be the first carriage, and full rates charged thereon, the remaining carriages being charged half rates for four-wheeled or two-wheeled carriages respectively.

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

Carriages sent on hire or for repairs, and so consigned, also carriages on loan sent to be used in place of other carriages under repair, will, if returned within three months from the original consignee and receiving station to the original consignor and sending station, be carried back at half the ordinary rates. A certificate in the following form, signed by the consignor, must be attached to the consignment note: “I hereby certify that the consigned by me to station was conveyed by rail from* to† on‡.

Old carriages exchanged for new carriages will be charged full ordinary rates going from the owner to the coachbuilder. If a new carriage is sent from the same coachbuilder to the same owner and between the same points within three months it will be charged the ordinary rate, but one-half of the railway-rate paid for conveyance on the old carriage from the owner to the coachbuilder will be refunded.

Carriages conveyed under any of the foregoing conditions will be carried at owners’ risk.

Requisitions for horse-boxes and carriage-trucks must be made the day before they are wanted.

Horses, Carriages, and Dogs.

The Railway Department does not undertake to forward horses, carriages, or dogs by any particular train; but when sent they must be at the forwarding station half an hour before the departure of the train. The owners of horses must provide means of securing them in the horse-box, and the Railway Department will not be accountable for any injuries sustained through their breaking loose or otherwise, nor will it undertake to carry unbroken or vicious horses.

Dogs.

Dogs must be distinctly addressed with the name of consignee and the station to which they are proceeding. They will not be allowed in carriages, and the sender must obtain a ticket, to be given up at the end of the journey before the dog is delivered. Owners must see their dogs safely placed in the train, and take delivery of them immediately on arrival at destination. Dogs not secured in hampers, crates, boxes, or sacks must be provided with efficient chains and collars, or other means of securing them.

*Insert here name of original sender and sending station. † Insert here name of original consignee and receiving station. ‡ Insert date.