Aug. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2457

GOODS. 51

REGULATIONS—continued.

(3.) Class E.

Minimum quantity (except for bonedust and other artificial manures, for which it will be 5 cwt.), 1½ tons. Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum, or at rate and a half Class E, not exceeding the rate for Class D.

At Auckland, Onehunga, Port Ahuriri, Wellington, Foxton, Wanganui, New Plymouth Breakwater, Waitara, Greymouth, Westport, Nelson, Nelson Port, Picton, Blenheim, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Breakwater, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Bluff, 6d. per ton will be charged in addition to the classified rates, except when consigned from or to private sidings at those stations, or except local rates otherwise provide ; but such addition will not be made when goods are charged at Class E under small-lots scale, Regulation 2, or at rate and a half, Class E.

At all other stations, when the loading or unloading is done by the owners, or when loaded by owners into sheds, owing to trucks not being available after reasonable notice is given, the classified rates only will be charged. When the loading or unloading is done by the Railway Department 6d. per ton will be charged for each operation ; minimum charge, 3d. When goods are charged at Class E under small-lots scale, regulation 2, or at rate and a half, Class E, no charge for loading or unloading will be made.

At all private stores or sidings the loading or unloading shall be done by the owners. The following method of computing the tonnage of grain will be followed :—

Wheat—19 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Barley—12 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Oats—14 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Flour, Bran, and Pollard—2,200 lb. to the ton.
Oats (crushed) and other grain by actual weight.
60 lb. of wheat, 50 lb. of barley, or 40 lb. of oats count as 1 bushel.

The number of bags and the quantity they contain must be declared upon the consignment-notes.

(4.) Class F.

The Railway Department may require all loading and unloading to be done by the owner. For each loading or unloading done by the Department the charge will, except where otherwise specified, be 5s. per four-wheel truck. When loading by consignors is done negligently, and so as to entail reloading on the road, £1 per truck may be charged for reloading. When cranage is charged for or provided, half-rates only will be charged for each loading or unloading done by the Department.

Broken glass, lime-gas refuse, lime (native produce), limestone, street, stable, and farmyard manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, green flax, tussock grass, will be charged as Class Q if cheaper than Class F. The minimum quantity of such goods to be charged as Class Q will be 4 tons ; any less quantity will be charged as such minimum or as Class E. Beet, carrots, mangolds, pumpkins, vegetable marrows, turnips, firewood, mining props, split house-blocks, posts and rails, in quantities under a truck-load, will be charged as a truck, or as Class E. Other goods of Class F under a truck-load will be charged as a truck, or as Class E, rate and a half.

Except where otherwise specified the load of any four-wheel truck must not exceed 6 tons in weight.

Except where otherwise specified, not more than 140 bags of chaff shall be loaded on any four-wheel truck. Hydraulic-pressed chaff in bales or bundles may, except otherwise specified, be loaded up to 6 tons per four-wheel truck, provided the gauge limit is not exceeded.

The load of an LA truck containing lime-gas refuse, lime (native produce), limestone, scrap iron, old iron rails for scrap, broken glass, must not exceed 12 tons in weight, and will be charged double the classified or local rates, and the load of an LA truck containing other goods of Class F must not exceed nine tons in weight, and will be charged one and a half times the classified or local rates, and the loading and unloading charges in each case will be made on the same basis.

The load of a bogie R or U truck, containing firewood, mining props, split house-blocks, posts and rails, lime-gas refuse, lime (native produce), limestone, street, stable, and farmyard manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, broken glass, must not exceed 16 tons in weight ; and the load of R and U trucks containing other goods of Class F must not exceed 12 tons in weight.

Double-bogie R or U trucks containing firewood, mining props, split house-blocks, posts and rails, lime-gas refuse, lime (native produce), limestone, street, stable, and farmyard manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, broken glass, will be charged two and two-third (2⅔) times the classified or local rates ; R or U trucks containing other goods of Class F will be charged double the classified or local rates, and the loading and unloading charges in each case will be made on the same basis.

The load of a double-bogie RB or UB truck containing firewood, mining props, split house-blocks, posts and rails, lime-gas refuse, lime (native produce), limestone, street, stable, and farmyard manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, broken glass, must not exceed 25 tons in weight ; and the load of a double-bogie RB or UB truck containing other goods of Class F must not exceed 18 tons in weight.