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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 87

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC.

School Season Tickets, and whose age does not exceed twenty years. They will be available for three months from date of issue, and for use when holders are travelling to or from school only.

Annual Tickets for bicycles accompanying passengers, available over the whole of the New Zealand Government Railways for one year from date of issue, will be charged £10 for each ordinary bicycle seated for one rider only. Motor bicycles double rate.

Bicycle Season Tickets must be produced at destination before the bicycle is delivered. They are not transferable.

SAMPLE BICYCLES. — Commercial travellers representing recognised bicycle agencies established in New Zealand will be allowed to carry with them as commercial travellers’ luggage two sample bicycles packed in cases. All sample bicycles in excess of this number will be charged at the parcels rates for bicycles.

BICYCLE CRATES.—A charge of 3d. will be made for each crate or canvas bag supplied by the Railway Department for the protection of bicycles to be conveyed by rail, but when such crates or bags are supplied they must not be removed from the railway premises. The Railway Department reserves to itself the right to decline any application for supply of bicycle crates or bags.

Lost Luggage.

Luggage left in a train will be charged for booking as lost luggage, at per s. d.
package, in addition to cloak-room charges ... ... ... 0 4
Maximum charges per package ... ... ... ... 2 6

Checked luggage for stations at which there are no officers in charge not claimed while train is standing at station will be treated and charged as “lost luggage.”

Lost luggage, if not claimed within three months, may be sold.

The platform will be cleared after each train, and all property found will be treated as lost luggage.

Left Luggage.

Luggage left in the cloak-room will be charged, for the first day, per s. d.
parcel not exceeding 56 lb. ... ... ... ... 0 2
Ditto, over 56 lb., and not over 112 lb. ... ... ... ... 0 4
Ditto, over 112 lb. ... ... ... ... 0 6
And for each day or part of a day after 24 hours, per parcel ... ... 0 1

In computing the charges, Sunday is considered a dies non, unless it be the day on which the articles are deposited or taken out, in which case it must be reckoned.

Commercial travellers’ samples arriving by train, or sent to railway-stations for despatch by train, may be left in the cloak-room overnight, and stored free of charge up to eighteen hours, after which time full storage rates will be charged.

Checked luggage for officered stations not claimed on arrival at destination will be stored free for twelve hours from time of arrival, after which time full storage rates will be charged.

Any luggage not claimed within three months may be sold.

The Department reserves the right to refuse any package which it may deem offensive or objectionable.

When passengers who have deposited their luggage in cloak-rooms require to remove one or more of the articles so left (leaving the remainder until a future occasion) they must surrender their Left-luggage Tickets and pay all storage charges which have accrued, when a fresh Left-luggage Ticket will be issued for the remaining packages without the initial charge; storage charges, as provided above, will be made on the remaining packages when the same are ultimately claimed.

Left-luggage Tickets must be given up on demand to any officer of the New Zealand Government Railways.

The liability of the Minister for loss or damage is limited by the 13th section of “The Government Railways Act, 1900,” to a sum not exceeding £10 in respect to each package of left luggage.

Left Parcels.

Left-parcels labels, of the value of 2d. each, may be obtained upon application at the principal stations, which, when attached to parcels not exceeding 28lb. weight sent to the station, and delivered to the person in charge of the cloak-room, will entitle the bearer of the duplicate to receive the parcel at the cloak-room on application. A further charge of 1d. per parcel will be made for each day or part of a day after twenty-four hours. Any parcel not claimed within three months may be sold.

The liability of the Minister for loss or damage is limited by the 13th section of