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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

the rates and charges to be paid for water supplied from Government water-races:—

REGULATION.

From and after the 15th day of January, 1901, the price of water supplied from Government races will be £1 (one pound) per sluice-head of water per week.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 27th day of December, 1900.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For and on behalf of the Minister for Public Works.

By-laws for New Zealand Government Railways.—Conveyance of Passengers’ Luggage.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by “The Government Railways Act, 1900,” I, Joseph George Ward, the Minister for Railways, do hereby make the following by-laws regulating the carriage of passengers’ luggage on the New Zealand Government railways open for traffic, and do hereby declare that such by-laws shall come into force on the day of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, and shall apply to all such railways generally, namely:—

BY-LAWS.

1. Passengers’ luggage received, held, or conveyed by railway will be subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth:—
2. Luggage shall be designated as follows:—
   (a.) Unchecked luggage—i.e., packages of every description which are conveyed as passengers’ luggage, and which are not checked as hereinafter provided.
   (b.) Checked luggage—i.e., packages of every description for which the passenger holds a luggage-check as hereinafter provided.
3. Passengers may, at their option, have luggage checked between any two stations on a continuous line of railway, and such checked luggage will thereafter be held and conveyed at the risk of the department, subject to the following regulations.
4. Each package must be distinctly addressed with the name of the passenger and the station to which he is proceeding; and if it is desired to check the luggage, the person delivering it must obtain a check for each package delivered. The department will not check luggage that is not fully and legibly addressed.
5. Luggage to be checked must, if being forwarded from an officered station, be delivered at the railway-station from which the passenger is proceeding at least fifteen minutes, and luggage not required to be checked at least ten minutes, before the advertised time of departure of the train by which it is to be conveyed, or the department will not be responsible for its despatch. Luggage (whether checked or unchecked) on which excess rates are payable must be delivered at the railway-station at least thirty minutes before the advertised time of departure of the train by which it is to be forwarded, or the department will not be responsible for its despatch.
6. Luggage to be forwarded from stations at which there are no officers in charge must be taken to guard’s van, and be there handed to the guard of the train by which it is to be forwarded, immediately on arrival of the train at the station from which the luggage is to be conveyed. If the luggage is to be checked the person delivering it must obtain from the guard of train a check for each package delivered. The department will not be responsible for the despatch of luggage that is not presented at guard’s van while train is standing at flag-stations. Charges on excess luggage, whether checked or unchecked, must be paid to guard, from whom a ticket must be obtained for the amount paid.
7. The checks obtained for the luggage must be surrendered by the person who takes delivery of the luggage at destination.
8. Except as hereinafter provided, no package of checked luggage will be delivered until the check has been surrendered. The department will not be responsible for any loss or inconvenience that may arise through the failure of passenger or his agent to produce the necessary check.
9. All charges on luggage which exceeds the weight specified in clause No. 25, or consists of articles which are not allowed by these regulations to be carried free, must be prepaid, and the person delivering such luggage must obtain an excess-luggage ticket as a receipt for the charges paid, such ticket to be given up when the luggage is claimed. Passengers who fail to produce excess tickets for luggage on which excess charges are payable will be required to pay such charges before the luggage is delivered.
10. Passengers are not bound to see personally to the checking or excessing of their luggage, nor, except as provided in clause 11, to attend in person to obtain delivery of their luggage, but may arrange for any person, other than a railway employé, to act on their behalf; the department, however, reserves to itself the right to demand the production of the passenger’s ticket whenever it may deem such a step to be necessary, and to decline to accept any luggage for transit until such demand has been complied with.
11. Owners of luggage for stations at which there are no officers in charge must in all cases present themselves at the guard’s van while the train is standing at the station, and claim and take delivery of their luggage, and must, in the case of checked luggage, deliver to the guard of train the checks received for same, failing which, the luggage, whether checked or unchecked, shall be treated as “lost luggage,” and taken to the next officered station and there stored at the risk and expense of the owner.
12. Any person losing a luggage-check may be required to make a statutory declaration setting forth the number of the check lost, the number and description of the packages claimed, to indemnify the department against loss for wrong delivery, and to furnish such other proofs of ownership of luggage as the Railway Department may require, before such luggage shall be delivered. Should the proofs of ownership or the indemnity be deemed by the Railway Department to be insufficient, delivery of the luggage will be withheld, and the Railway Department shall not be liable for any inconvenience or loss suffered in consequence thereof.
13. 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.
14. No luggage will be allowed to be taken into carriages unless it can be placed under the seat without inconvenience to other passengers; neither shall any person take into or carry in a railway-carriage any luggage which the railway officers deem to be inconvenient or objectionable.
15. 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.
16. Unchecked luggage will be carried solely at the risk of the owner.
17. 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.
18. Checked luggage for officered stations not claimed within twelve hours of arrival at destination will be placed in the cloak-room and charged accordingly. Checked luggage for stations at which there are no officers in charge not claimed while train is standing at the station will be taken to the next officered station and treated as lost luggage, and be charged accordingly. Unchecked luggage not claimed immediately on arrival at destination will be treated as lost luggage, and charged accordingly.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. No person shall be entitled to check or send any luggage to any railway-station beyond the station of destination for which his ticket is available; nor shall any person send or carry as luggage any packages containing goods that are other than his own bonâ fide property, or his samples for exhibition only.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. In no case shall the aggregate weight carried free with any one passenger exceed 112 lb.