New Zealand Gazette – 1907 – No. 69

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✨ Railway Fares and Charges Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

10
PASSENGERS.

No reduction in charge is made for children.
Passengers holding twelve-trip workers’ tickets will be charged the full ordinary first-class fare when travelling in first-class carriages.
The tickets are not transferable, and will be charged as follows :—

Miles.	Second Class.	Miles.	Second Class.	Miles.	Second Class.
	s. d.		s. d.		s. d.
2	1 6	9	5 0	15	8 0
3	2 0	10	5 6	16	8 6
4	2 6	11	6 0	17	9 0
5	3 0	12	6 6	18	9 6
6	3 6	13	7 0	19	10 0
7	4 0	14	7 6	20	10 6
8	4 6

Newspaper Reporters’ Tickets.

Tickets will be issued to newspaper reporters permanently engaged on the staff of any registered newspaper at the rates and subject to the conditions specified below, viz. :—
Ordinary single and return tickets … At one-fourth of the ordinary fares. Minimum charge, 6d. first class, 4d. second class, single or return.
Season tickets … … … At one-fourth of the ordinary or annual season-ticket rates (Regulations 18 and 19). Maximum charge, £10.

No reduction in charge will be made for Commutation Tickets.
Newspaper reporters’ tickets will be available for use only when the holder is travelling for the purpose of reporting.
Application for newspaper reporters’ ordinary and season tickets must be accompanied by a certificate in the following form, signed by the editor or proprietor of the newspaper :—
“Please issue to reporter of the newspaper a reporter’s (a) class(b) ticket at one-fourth of the ordinary rates, and available between Station and Station from(c)
“I certify that the ticket referred to above is required for Press-reporting purposes only; that it will be used only by a bonâ fide reporter permanently employed on the staff of the newspaper, and exclusively engaged on Press business. Editor [or Proprietor] Newspaper.”
(a) Insert “first,” or “second.” (b) Insert “single,” “return,” “monthly,” “quarterly,” “half-yearly,” or “yearly,” as required. (c) Insert date ticket required.

Newspaper proprietors must furnish the General Manager of Railways with a list giving names and signatures of the persons on the staff of their respective papers who are authorised to sign certificates. Certificates signed by persons other than those so notified to the General Manager of Railways will not be recognised.
Newspaper reporters’ £10 tickets will be available for travel over Lake Wakatipu.

Newsboys’ Season Tickets.

Season Tickets at half the rate of ordinary Season Tickets will be issued to newsboys upon the production of a certificate from the proprietor or manager of the newspaper certifying that the ticket is to be used only for the purpose of selling newspapers on the trains by a bonâ fide newsboy wholly engaged on the staff of the newspaper, and not following any other profession or occupation. The maximum weight of books, periodicals, and newspapers which newsboys are allowed to carry free of charge is 56 lb. Newsboys are not allowed to sell newspapers, periodicals, or books on the station platforms, or in trains whilst same are standing at bookstall stations.

Apprentices, Pupil-teachers, Articled Clerks, and Young Persons in Employment.

Season Tickets at half the rate of ordinary Season Tickets will be issued to persons in employment whose age does not exceed 21 years, upon production of certificates in the following form from their masters or employers that the applicants

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