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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29

and the load of a double-bogie truck containing other goods of Class F must not exceed 12 tons in weight.
Any truck loaded with more than the quantities specified will be charged rate and a quarter.
Double-bogie trucks containing firewood, mining props, split house-blocks, posts and rails, lime gas refuse, lime (native produce,) limestone, street, stable, and farmyard manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, broken glass, will be charged two and two-third (2⅔) times the classified or local rates; double-bogie trucks containing other goods of Class F will be charged double the classified or local rates, and the loading charges in each case will be made on the same basis.
Loose hay, loose straw, loose flax-straw, loose flax-tow, and loose dressed flax will not be accepted for carriage.

(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 native bark to be charged Class P rate will be 5 tons per truck. 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 (including labour and covering) to exceed the total charges under Class E (actual weight), single rate.
The Railway Department may require loading or unloading 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.
Minimum quantity, 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 unloading 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.

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(5.) CLASS F.—HAY, TURNIPS, FIREWOOD, ETC.
The Railway Department may require all loading and unloading to be done by the owner. For each loading or unloading done by the department the charge will be, per four-wheel truck, 5s. When loading by consignors is done negligently, and so as to entail reloading on the road, £1 per truck may be charged for reloading. When cranage is charged for or provided, half-rates only will be charged for each loading or unloading done by the department.
Broken glass, lime gas refuse, lime (native produce), limestone, street, stable, and farmyard manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, green flax, tussock-grass, will be charged as Class Q if cheaper than Class F. The minimum quantity of such goods to be charged as Class Q will be 4 tons; any less quantity will be charged as such minimum, or as Class E. Beet, carrots, mangolds, pumpkins, turnips, firewood, mining props, split house-blocks, posts and rails, in quantities under a truck-load, will be charged as a truck, or as Class E. Other goods of Class F under a truck-load will be charged as a truck, or as Class E, rate and a half.
A four-wheel-truck load must not exceed 6 tons in weight.
Except where otherwise specified, not more than 140 bags of chaff shall be loaded on any four-wheel truck. Hydraulic pressed chaff in bales or bundles may be loaded up to 6 tons per four-wheel truck, provided the the gauge limit is not exceeded.
The load of a double bogie truck containing firewood, mining props, split house-blocks, posts and rails, lime gas refuse, lime (native produce), limestone, street, stable, and farmyard manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, broken glass, must not exceed 16 tons in weight; and the load of a double-bogie truck containing other goods of Class F must not exceed 12 tons in weight.

Any truck loaded with more than the quantities specified will be charged rate and a quarter.
Double-bogie trucks containing firewood, mining props, split house-blocks, posts and rails, lime gas refuse, lime (native produce), limestone, street, stable, and farmyard manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, broken glass, will be charged two and two-third (2⅔) times the classified or local rates; double-bogie trucks containing other goods of Class F will be charged double the classified or local rates, and the loading charges in each case will be made on the same basis.
Loose hay, loose straw, loose flax-straw, loose flax-tow, and loose dressed flax will not be accepted for carriage.

(10.) CLASS P.—NATIVE COAL (ANTHRACITE OR BITUMINOUS), ETC.
Minimum quantity of native bark, 5 tons per truck; other goods, 4 tons. Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum, or at the classified rates for Class E (rate and a half).
The Railway Department may require loading or unloading 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.
Minimum quantity, 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 E.
The Railway Department may require loading or unloading to be done by the owners. 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.
NAPIER—TARANAKI SECTION AND WELLINGTON SECTION.
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Goods of Class P (except bonedust, native coal—anthracite and bituminous—guano, manure-salt, rock-salt, salt for agricultural or pastoral purposes, soot, and manure other than street, stable, or farmyard) will be charged as Class N except otherwise specified.

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Goods of Class P (except native coal, anthracite and bituminous), will be charged as Class N except otherwise specified.

HOKITIKA—BRUNNERTON SECTION.
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Wood-ashes for manufacture of caustic potash consigned to Kaiata will be charged Class Q. Minimum quantity, 4 tons per four-wheel truck; otherwise, Class P rates. The minimum quantity to be charged Class P will be 1½ tons; any less quantity will be charged Class E (actual weight), single rate.

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Wood-ashes for manufacture of caustic potash consigned to Kaiata will be charged Class Q. Minimum, 4 tons per four-wheel truck; any less quantity will be charged Class E.

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Cheese.
The maximum rate for cheese in 4-ton lots, consigned from factories south of Dunedin to Bluff, Invercargill, Dunedin, or Port Chalmers, will be 23s. per ton. For cheese in 4-ton lots, consigned from factories north of Oamaru to Oamaru, Timaru, Christchurch, or Lyttelton, the maximum rate will be 23s. per ton.

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

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Class Class
Bonedust, packed. Owners’ risk .. .. P E
Butter, packed, in consignments of not less than 10 cwt. .. .. .. .. D E & ½
Cheese, packed, consigned from makers’ factories in consignments of not less than 10 cwt. .. .. .. .. D E & ½
Guano, packed. Owners’ risk .. .. P E
Manures other than street, stable, and farmyard. Owners’ risk .. .. .. P E
Manure-salt .. .. .. .. P E
Rock-salt.. .. .. .. .. P E
Salt, manure, or for agricultural or pastoral purposes .. .. .. .. P E
Soot in bags, as manure. Owner’s risk .. P E

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