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Annual Season Tickets.

19. Annual Season Tickets, available for use only on the New Zealand Government Railways for one year from date of issue, will be issued at the following rates, viz.:—

• These tickets will be transferred for business purposes temporarily once in any month during their currency from the holder to a member or employee of the same firm or company on payment of a transfer fee of 10s. on the occasion of each transfer. Application for transfer must be made to the District Manager. The ticket to be transferred, together with the transfer fee, 10s., must be deposited when application for transfer is made.

A charge of £1 will be made for each ticket issued in lieu of annual season ticket lost.

Where sectional tickets are made available on Lake Wakatipu they will be charged as for 25 miles additional to the railway mileage.

Annual all-lines season tickets available over both Islands will be available for travel over Lake Wakatipu.

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Tourist Excursion Tickets.

41. Tourist Excursion Tickets (first class) will be issued at the following rates:—

(a.) Available over lines of both Islands for six weeks from date of issue ... £7
(b.) Available over North Island lines for four weeks from date of issue ... £4
(c.) Available over Middle Island lines for four weeks from date of issue ... £5

These tickets are available over Government lines only, and are obtainable as follows: a and b at Auckland, Onehunga, Rotorua, Thames, Napier, Hastings, Woodville, Masterton, Wanganui, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Wellington, and Te Aro; a and c at Nelson, Greymouth, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Palmerston, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Mosgiel, Alexandra, Clyde, Milton, Lawrence, Clinton, Invercargill, and Bluff Railway-stations.

Tourist excursion tickets (a) and (c) series will be available for travel over Lake Wakatipu.

Tourist excursion tickets may be extended for any period not exceeding four weeks on payment of an extension fee of £1 10s. per week or portion of a week. Persons desiring an extension of time must apply to the Stationmaster at any of the above-mentioned stations before the expiration of the original ticket, and deliver up the original ticket together with the proper extension fee; the extension ticket will then be issued.

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Tourist Excursion Tickets.

41. Tourist Excursion Tickets (first class) will be issued at the following rates:—

(a.) Available over lines of both Islands for six weeks from date of issue ... £8
(b.) Available over North Island lines for four weeks from date of issue ... £5
(c.) Available over Middle Island lines for four weeks from date of issue ... £5

These tickets are available over Government lines only, and are obtainable as follows: a and b at Auckland, Onehunga, Rotorua, Thames, Hamilton, Napier, Woodville, Masterton, Wanganui, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Wellington (Thorndon), Wellington (Lambton), and Te Aro; a and c at Nelson, Greymouth, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Palmerston, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Mosgiel, Alexandra, Clyde, Milton, Lawrence, Clinton, Invercargill, and Bluff Railway-stations.

Tourist excursion tickets (a) and (c) series will be available for travel over Lake Wakatipu.

Tourist excursion tickets may be extended for any period not exceeding four weeks on payment of an extension fee of £1 10s. per week or portion of a week. Persons desiring an extension of time must apply to the Stationmaster at any of the above-mentioned stations before the expiration of the original ticket, and deliver up the original ticket together with the proper extension fee; the extension ticket will then be issued.

As witness my hand, this seventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

J. G. WARD,

Acting for Minister of Railways.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 99