Sept. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1671

GOODS.

REGULATIONS—continued.

(3.) Class E.—Grain and other Agricultural Produce.

Minimum quantity, 1½ tons. Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum, or at rate and a half Class E, not exceeding the rate for Class D.

At Auckland, Onehunga, Spit, Wellington, Foxton, Wanganui, New Plymouth Breakwater, Waitara, Greymouth, Westport, Nelson, Nelson Port, Picton, Blenheim, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Breakwater, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Bluff, 6d. per ton will be charged in addition to the classified rates, except when consigned from or to private sidings at those stations, or except local rates otherwise provide ; but such addition will not be made when goods are charged at Class E under small-lots scale, regulation 2, or at rate and a half, Class E.

At all other stations, when the loading or unloading is done by the owners, or when loaded by owners into sheds, owing to trucks not being available after reasonable notice is given, the classified rates only will be charged. When the loading or unloading is done by the Railway Department 6d. per ton will be charged for each operation; minimum charge, 3d. When goods are charged at Class E under small-lots scale, regulation 2, or at rate and a half, Class E, no charge for loading or unloading will be made.

At all private stores or sidings the loading or unloading shall be done by the owners. The following method of computing the tonnage of grain will be followed :—

Wheat—10 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Barley—12 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Oats—14 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Flour, Bran, and Pollard—2,200lb. to the ton.
Oats (crushed) and other grain by actual weight.
60lb. of wheat, 50lb. of barley, or 40lb. of oats count as 1 bushel.

The number of bags and the quantity they contain must be declared upon the consignment notes.

(4.) Class F.

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 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, except otherwise provided, be charged rate and a quarter.

When the load of a four-wheeled truck exceeds 6 tons 10 cwt., and the load of a double-bogie truck exceeds 17 tons, the whole of the weight in excess of 6 tons for the four-wheeled truck and 16 tons for the double-bogie truck will be removed and loaded on another truck, and charged as a separate consignment for the actual weight.

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