1966
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC.

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.

5. Luggage to be forwarded from stations at which there are no officers in charge must be taken to the 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.

6. The checks obtained for the luggage must be surrendered by the person who takes delivery of the luggage at destination.

7. 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.

8. All charges on luggage which exceeds the weight specified in regulation 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.

9. Passengers are not bound to see personally to the checking or excessing of their luggage, nor, except as provided in clause 10, 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.

10. 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 the 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. Unchecked luggage will be carried solely at the risk of the owner.

16. 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.

17. 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 next officered station and treated as lost luggage, and be charged accordingly.

18. 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’