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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40

Stoke Road District, County of Waimea :
Alfred Allport.
John Best.
Henry Lankow.

Suburban North Road District, County of Waimea :
David Barnett.
William Gill.
Henry Wastney.

Mount Peel Road District, County of Geraldine :
George Innes Hamilton.
Robert Thew.
George James Dennistoun.

South Malvern Road District, County of Selwyn :
Thomas Brown.
George Gray.
Arthur Heneage Burkett.

Lake Coleridge Road District, County of Selwyn :
Thomas A. Phillips.
George Gerard.

Ellesmere Road District, County of Selwyn :
Robert Lochhead.
William McMillan.
Edward Ruddock.

Templeton Road District, County of Selwyn :
William Bailey.
George Allen Mangin.
George Witty.

Alterations to the Scale of Fares, Rates, and Charges in force upon the New Zealand Government Railways.

IN pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling me under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and any amendment thereof, and also of “The Government Railways Act, 1894,” I, Joseph George Ward, the Minister for Railways, do hereby make the following alterations in the scale of fares, rates, and charges in force on the New Zealand Government railways open for traffic, such alterations to come into force on the 28th day of May, 1900:—

PART I.—PASSENGERS: GENERAL FARES AND REGULATIONS.

Cancel Regulation 15, and
Insert—

15. Annual season tickets, available only for use on the New Zealand Government railways for one year from date of issue, will be issued at the following rates, viz. :—

SECTIONAL TICKETS.

For distances not exceeding 150 miles | 30 | 25
151 miles and over, 2s. per mile added to the charge for 150 miles. |
Maximum charge { North Island .. | 40 | 35
{ Middle Island.. | *55 | 50

• These tickets will be transferred for business purposes temporarily once in any month during their currency from the holder to a member or employé of the same firm or company on payment of a transfer-fee of 10s. on the occasion of each transfer. Application for transfer must be made to the District Manager. The ticket to be transferred, together with the transfer-fee, 10s., must be deposited when application for transfer is made.

Annual tickets as above are not available on the New Zealand Midland Company’s lines, nor for travel by the Midland Railway Company’s trains between Greymouth and Brunner.

LOCAL FARES AND REGULATIONS.

AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON-NAPIER-NEW PLYMOUTH, AND HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTIONS.

Workers’ weekly tickets, second-class, will be issued as under at a charge of 2s. each, and subject to the conditions specified below :—

AUCKLAND SECTION.

WELLINGTON-NAPIER-NEW PLYMOUTH SECTION.

HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION.

Workers’ weekly tickets are available only for use between the stations specified thereon, and are not available for break of journey. They will expire on Saturdays, and are limited to one outward and one homeward trip per day, and to use on the outward journey by trains arriving at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin before 8 a.m. On the homeward journey they may be used by any timetable train, mail and express trains excepted, after 9 a.m. The tickets will be issued only to persons resident in the neighbourhood of the issuing station, and for use by the purchaser, whose name must be inscribed thereon. They are not available for use on Sundays, and are not transferable. No reduction in charge will be made for children. At officered stations applications for workers’ tickets must be made at least ten minutes before time of departure of the train by which the ticket is intended to be used. Tickets from flag-stations can be obtained from guard of train.

As witness my hand, this eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred.

J. G. WARD,
Minister for Railways.

Notice to Local Authorities under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886.”

The Treasury,
Wellington, 17th April, 1900.

PURSUANT to section 16 of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” the Colonial Treasurer hereby gives notice that on Friday, the 1st June, 1900, he will be prepared to consider applications from local authorities for loans under the Act.

Applications should be addressed to the Colonial Treasurer, and must be posted so as to arrive at the Treasury on or before the 31st May, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

Bonus on Mineral Oil produced from Shale obtained in New Zealand.—Extension of Time.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1900.

THE time for notifying intention to claim the undermentioned bonus, and for making such claim, has been extended as follows:—

Notice of intention to claim the bonus must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1900.

The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1901.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.