SEPT. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1655

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.

Stallions travelling on circuit for stud purposes during the breeding season, whether requiring the exclusive use of a horse-box or not, will be charged from station to station at the same rate as an ordinary horse, provided a satisfactory certificate in the following form, signed by the owner or groom in charge, is indorsed on the consignment-note: “I hereby certify that the stallion entered hereon is travelling from * station to station for breeding purposes only.”

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, asses, and hounds may be sent in cattle-trucks, at rates charged for cattle in truck-loads; but, if so charged, the Department will reserve the right to forward by goods trains if inconvenient to do so by passenger or mixed trains.

Horses, Shetland and polo ponies, foals, mules, and asses, when loaded in cattle-trucks, may be charged at the rates for cattle in truck-loads, or at the rate for horses in horse-boxes if cheaper.

Horses will not be delivered at a station short of the destination to which booked, except where an overnight break of journey is necessitated by the train service.

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 of 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

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