Nov. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2543

PASSANGERS.

FIRST CLASS, double the above rates in each case.
Tickets at above rates will only be issued at the option of the Department. They will not be issued on public holidays.
Where special trains are provided a guarantee equal to eighty second-class adult ordinary return fares may be required; minimum charge, £5. (See Regulation No. 44.)
With every nine scholars for whom fares are paid under this regulation one child (who would not otherwise be able to join the excursion, and who by exemplary conduct, application, and regular attendance merits the concession) may be carried free on the certificate of the teacher.
The number of adult passengers, exclusive of teachers and senior scholars, carried at these fares by any school-excursion train must not exceed the number of children under 15 years of age who are carried by the same train.
School-excursion trains will be run conditionally on the Committee arranging the excursion undertaking to place at least two adults, either teachers or other persons, in charge of each carriage to maintain order and prevent children from riding on the carriage platforms.
The Committee must undertake the sale of all tickets and all responsibility for the value of same. They must restrict the sale of adult tickets within the limits specified, and give a written undertaking to conform to these regulations, and to pay to the Railway Department the difference in value between the school-excursion and ordinary return fares for all adults in excess of the limits specified in clause 8 to whom school-excursion tickets are issued.
Unsold tickets must be returned to the Railway Department before the excursion train starts on its outward journey, or at destination station before the commencement of the homeward journey, otherwise the Committee will be debited with the full value thereof, and no rebate will be made on account of tickets afterwards tendered as unsold.
Each school will be strictly limited to one excursion per annum at the day-excursion fares.
Application must first be made to the District Manager, seven days’ notice being given in the case of small parties, and ten days’ notice in the case of large excursions.

Students of Agricultural and Technical Colleges travelling for Field Instruction.

32. Students of Agricultural and Technical Colleges, in parties of not less than five, when travelling together for field instruction, will be charged three-fourths the ordinary return fare for the double journey. Tickets will be available for return for one week from date of issue. Application for this concession must be made to the District Manager.

Football, Cricket, Tennis, Hockey, and Bowling Teams, Golf, Rowing, and Rifle Clubs, and Pleasure Parties.

33. Second-class ordinary return tickets, available for first-class carriages, will be issued to football, cricket, tennis, hockey, and bowling teams, golf, rowing, and rifle clubs, and pleasure parties of not less than twelve adult passengers travelling together. Where a single journey only is to be made, second-class single tickets will be issued available for first-class carriages.
    Second-class return tickets, indorsed available for return up to and including the day after issue only, will be issued at three-fourths the ordinary second-class return fare to teams, clubs, and pleasure parties of not less than twelve adult passengers travelling together who wish to travel second class. Minimum fare, 1s.
    Teams and parties will be required to give three days’ notice to the District Manager, and must travel by the trains arranged for by that officer. Teams will be furnished with a certificate signed by the Railway Manager, and authorising the concession specified herein. Certificate must be shown to guard with tickets of team.
    The Department reserves to itself the right to decline any application.

Theatrical, Concert, and Circus Companies.

34. Bands of musicians, theatrical, concert, and circus companies, travelling together, will be charged as follows, viz.:—
    Companies of not less than six adults and up to twenty-four adults, including advance agents :