SEPT. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1651

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC.

11. Luggage will not be delivered at any station short of the destination to which it is addressed and labelled. Passengers who desire to break the journey en route must have their luggage labelled to the station at which they intend to take delivery.
12. No luggage will be allowed to be taken into carriages unless it can be placed under the seat without inconvenience to other passengers.
13. Railway employés are not permitted to act as agents, or to undertake the charge of or accept responsibility in respect to luggage left temporarily at a station unless the luggage has been booked and placed in the cloak-room.
14. Unchecked luggage will be carried solely at the risk of the owner.
15. The department does not undertake to forward luggage of any description by any particular train, and will not be responsible for any luggage or parcels improperly left about the station premises. Luggage left at a station should be placed in the cloak-room.
16. Checked luggage not claimed within twelve hours of arrival at destination will be placed in the cloak-room and charged accordingly. Unchecked luggage not claimed immediately on arrival at destination will be treated as lost luggage, and charged accordingly.
17. The department reserves to itself the right to refuse any articles which, from their bulky or objectionable character, it is inexpedient to carry as passengers’ luggage. Packages exceeding 2 cwt. in weight or 20 cubic feet in measurement will not be accepted for conveyance as passengers’ luggage; such packages must be consigned, and will be conveyed and charged as goods.
18. Luggage, the property of passengers who are booked to a station beyond the terminus of the train by which they are travelling, may be labelled direct to destination shown on passenger’s ticket, and be stored free of charge from time of arrival at the station where break of journey is necessitated until time of departure therefrom of the first available through train by which passenger can proceed direct to destination.
19. ORDINARY PASSENGERS will be allowed to take with them, free of charge, 112 lb. weight, consisting either of bonâ fide personal luggage, tourists’, sportsmen’s, or artists’ gear, or any goods (except furniture and bulky musical instruments) which they may purchase bonâ fide for their own domestic use.
20. WORKPEOPLE will be allowed to take free of charge up to 112 lb. weight of work-tools, or work which they do at their homes. When the weight exceeds 112 lb. excess-luggage rates must be paid.
21. No luggage will be allowed free to excursionists by day trips, but excursionists travelling by excursions extending over more than one day will be allowed to take with them, free of charge, 112 lb. of bonâ fide personal luggage.
22. In no case shall the aggregate weight carried free with any one passenger exceed 112 lb.
23. For every 56 lb. or fraction of 56 lb. above the weight allowed, for every fifty miles or fraction of fifty miles, the charge will be 1s.
24. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS will each be allowed to take 112 lb. weight of luggage, including weight of two sample bicycles, packed, free of charge. For every 56 lb. or fraction of 56 lb. above this weight, for every 50 miles or fraction of 50 miles, the charge will be 6d. The maximum quantity which will be carried at this rate is 10 cwt.; any additional quantity, if sent by passenger train, will be charged at the ordinary rates for passengers’ luggage; or it may be consigned as goods at goods rates (Class B). Packages exceeding 2 cwt. in weight or 20 cubic feet in measurement will not be accepted for conveyance as passengers’ luggage.
25. THEATRICAL COMPANIES’ luggage will be conveyed as follows:—
    Companies of not less than 6 and not more than 24 adult passengers will be allowed to take free of charge 1½ cwt. of effects for each adult ticket held. Companies of not less than 25 and not more than 49 adult passengers will be allowed one four-wheeled truck of effects, and companies of 50 adult passengers and upwards will be allowed two four-wheeled or one double-bogie truck of effects free of charge. Luggage in excess of the quantities specified will be charged 6d. for every 56 lb. or fractional part thereof for every 50 miles or fraction of 50 miles, or may be consigned and forwarded by goods trains at half-rate (Class B). All loading and unloading must be done by owners at their own risk and responsibility.

Bicycles, Tricycles, Velocipedes, and Perambulators.

Bicycles, tricycles, or velocipedes accompanying passengers must be fully and legibly addressed with the name and destination of passenger, and be at the railway-station at least ten minutes before the advertised time of departure of the train by which they are to be carried.
The Department will not be responsible for bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes, or perambulators improperly left about the station premises.