2582
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 87

GOODS.

REGULATIONS—continued.

Sawn timber in pieces not exceeding 6 ft. in length will be charged at the actual measurement.
Round timber: Trade measurement; computed according to Hoppus’s tables of trade measurement. No allowance to be made for bark by ringing or otherwise, or for tops, butts, or unsound wood.
When timber is over 26 ft. long an empty check wagon or wagons will be charged for when required and used.
The Railway Department may require all loading and unloading to be done by the owner. For each loading or unloading done by the Railway Department 3d. per 100 superficial feet additional will be charged.
Where senders who do their own loading require a receipt for number of pieces, 3d. per 100 superficial feet additional will be charged, as if loading had been done by the Department.
For each certificate of timber measurement supplied by the Railway Department at the request of consignors or consignees, 3d. per 100 superficial feet additional will be charged. Measuring of timber will only be done at the option of the Department.

(7.) Class M.

Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats, and Calves, in Truck-loads, carried at Owners’ risk.
No more animals are to be put into a truck than it will conveniently hold.
One bonâ fide drover and his dogs will be allowed to accompany each consignment of not less than three trucks of live-stock. He will be furnished with a free return pass for himself and his dogs, available for a week. In cases where the stock is conveyed by more than one train a return pass will be issued for each train. The drover must travel by the same train as the stock, otherwise a pass will not be issued. Where drover travels by goods trains he will be required to take all risk of accident and to indemnify the Department against any responsibility in connection therewith.
When a consignment of less than three trucks of live-stock is sent by a goods train and a drover desires to accompany it, he may be permitted to do so on signing indemnity form and paying second-class fare for himself and ordinary rates for his dogs.
Drovers must ride in the Guard’s van or a second-class carriage, as may be directed by the Department.
Mixed consignments of cattle and horses will be charged separately or, as one lot, as cattle.
All animals must be loaded and unloaded by the owners at their own risk and responsibility.
Double-bogie wagons will be charged double rates.

Cattle, Calves, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs, in small lots,
May be charged at truck-load rate, or at the following rates:—

Mixed consignments of horses and hounds will, at the option of the sender, be charged separately or, as one lot, as cattle.
Calves, sheep, goats, and pigs, such as are ordinarily sent to market for consumption, and stud pigs not exceeding £3 in value, properly secured in crates, baskets, or sacks, so as to prevent injury to other goods, may be sent as goods, Class A. In all such cases the Department reserves to itself the right to load such stock in a truck with other goods.
Valuable stud and show calves, sheep, goats, and pigs, properly secured in crates (the total weight of package not exceeding 2¼ cwt.), will be charged rate and a half,