Sept. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1673

GOODS.

REGULATIONS—continued.

For each certificate of timber measurement supplied by the Railway Department at the request of consignors or consignees, 3d. per 100 superficial feet additional will be charged. Measuring of timber will only be done at the option of the Department.

(7.) Class M.—Live-stock.

Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats, and Calves, in Truck-loads, carried at Owners’ risk.

No more animals are to be put into a truck than it will conveniently hold.

One bond fide drover and his dogs will be allowed to accompany each consignment of not less than three trucks of live-stock. He will be furnished with a free return pass for himself and his dogs, available for a week. In cases where the stock is conveyed by more than one train a return pass will be issued for each train. The drover must travel by the same train as the stock, otherwise a pass will not be issued.

When a consignment of less than three trucks of live stock is sent by a goods train and a drover desires to accompany it, he may be permitted to do so on payment of second-class fare for himself and ordinary rates for his dogs.

Drovers must ride in the Guard’s van or a second-class carriage, as may be directed by the Department.

Mixed consignments of cattle and horses will be charged separately, or as one lot, as cattle.

All animals must be loaded and unloaded by the owners at their own risk and responsibility.

Double-bogie wagons will be charged double rates.

Cattle, Calves, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs, in small lots,

May be charged at truck-load rate, or at the following rates:—

Mixed consignments of horses and hounds will, at the option of the sender, be charged separately or as one lot as cattle.

Calves, sheep, goats, and pigs, such as are ordinarily sent to market for consumption, and stud pigs not exceeding £3 in value, properly secured in crates, baskets, or sacks, so as to prevent injury to other goods, may be sent as goods, Class A. In all such cases the Department reserves to itself the right to load such stock in a truck with other goods.

Valuable stud and show calves, sheep, goats, and pigs, properly secured in crates, will be charged at the rate for cattle, calves, sheep, goats, and pigs in small lots.

When a truck is only partially occupied by a consignment of stud, show, or ordinary stock, the Department reserves to itself the right to fill it up to its full carrying-capacity with other stock. If a separate truck is specially required by sender the truck rate will be charged.

All animals must be loaded and unloaded by owners at their own risk and responsibility.

The Department reserves the right to supply single-floored trucks for the conveyance of sheep, &c., when double-floored trucks are not available, and in such cases the District Manager may arrange to charge one single-floored double-bogie truck, or two single-floored four-wheeled trucks, as one double-floored four-wheeled truck.

Store Cattle and Sheep, in Large Mobs, for 100 Miles and upwards.

For distances of 100 miles and over, cattle and sheep certified by the consignor to be bond fide store stock, not consigned for slaughter, will be charged classified rates for the first thirteen trucks, and for each additional truck 20s. per truck less