3512

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 91

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC.

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a step to be necessary, and to decline to accept any luggage for transit until such demand has been complied with.

10. Owners of luggage for stations at which there are no officers in charge must in all cases present themselves at the Guard’s van while the train is standing at the station, and claim and take delivery of their luggage, and must, in the case of checked luggage, deliver to the Guard of the train the checks received for same, failing which the luggage, whether checked or unchecked, shall be treated as “lost luggage,” and taken to the next officered station and there stored at the risk and expense of the owner.

11. Any person losing a luggage-check may be required to make a statutory declaration setting forth the number of the check lost, the number and description of the packages claimed, to indemnify the Department against loss for wrong delivery, and to furnish such other proofs of ownership of luggage as the Railway Department may require, before such luggage shall be delivered. Should the proofs of ownership or the indemnity be deemed by the Railway Department to be insufficient, delivery of the luggage will be withheld, and the Railway Department shall not be liable for any inconvenience or loss suffered in consequence thereof.

12. Luggage will not be delivered at any station short of the destination to which it is addressed and labelled. Passengers who desire to break the journey en route must have their luggage labelled to the station at which they intend to take delivery.

13. No luggage will be allowed to be taken into carriages unless it can be placed under the seat without inconvenience to other passengers, neither shall any person take into or carry in a railway-carriage any luggage which the Railway officers deem to be inconvenient or objectionable.

14. Railway employés are not permitted to act as agents, or to undertake the charge of or accept responsibility in respect to luggage left temporarily at a station unless the luggage has been booked and placed in the cloak-room.

15. Unchecked luggage will be carried solely at the risk of the owner.

16. The Department does not undertake to forward luggage of any description by any particular train, and will not be responsible for any luggage or parcels improperly left about the station premises. Luggage left at a station should be placed in the cloak-room.

17. Checked luggage for officered stations not claimed within twelve hours of arrival at destination will be placed in the cloak-room and charged accordingly. Checked luggage for stations at which there are no officers in charge not claimed while train is standing at the station will be taken to next officered station and treated as lost luggage, and be charged accordingly.

18. Unchecked luggage not claimed immediately on arrival at destination will be treated as lost luggage, and charged accordingly.

19. The Department reserves to itself the right to refuse any articles which, from their bulky or objectionable character, it is inexpedient to carry as passengers’ luggage. Packages exceeding 2 cwt. in weight or 20 cubic feet in measurement will not be accepted for conveyance as passengers’ luggage; such packages must be consigned, and will be conveyed and charged as goods.

20. Luggage, the property of passengers who are booked to a station beyond the terminus of the train by which they are travelling, may be labelled direct to destination shown on passenger’s ticket, and be stored free of charge from time of arrival at the station where break of journey is necessitated until time of departure therefrom of the first available through train by which passenger can proceed direct to destination.

21. No person shall be entitled to check or send any luggage to any railway-station beyond the station of destination for which his ticket is available; nor shall any person send or carry as luggage any packages containing goods that are other than his own bond fide property, or his samples for exhibition only.

22. ORDINARY ADULT PASSENGERS will be allowed to take with them, free of charge, 112 lb. weight—children travelling on half-tickets 56 lb.—consisting either of bond fide personal luggage, tourists’, sportsmen’s, or artists’ gear, or any goods (except furniture, kerosene, house-fittings, live poultry, liquor, and bulky musical instruments) which they may purchase bond fide for their own domestic use.

23. WORKPEOPLE will be allowed to take free of charge up to 112 lb. weight of work-tools, or work which they do at their homes. When the weight exceeds 112 lb. excess-luggage rates must be paid.