Dec. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3515

30 LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC.

exceeding twelve miles—12 months, 52s. 6d. ; 6 months, 30s. ; 3 months, 17s. 6d. Motor bicycles will be charged double rates.

Bicycle Season Tickets for distances not over 12 miles will be issued at half the above rates for three-monthly tickets to students and scholars who are holders of School Season Tickets, and whose age does not exceed twenty years. They will be available for three months from date of issue, and for use when holders are travelling to or from school only.

Annual Tickets for bicycles accompanying passengers, available over the whole of the New Zealand Government Railways for one year from date of issue, will be charged £10 for each ordinary bicycle seated for one rider only. Motor bicycles double rate.

Bicycle Season Tickets must be produced at destination before the bicycle is delivered. They are not transferable.

SAMPLE BICYCLES.—Commercial travellers representing recognised bicycle agencies established in New Zealand will be allowed to carry with them as commercial travellers’ luggage two sample bicycles (other than motor bicycles), packed in cases or crates. All sample bicycles in excess of this number will be charged at the parcels rates for bicycles.

BICYCLE CRATES.—A charge of 3d. will be made for each crate or canvas bag supplied by the Railway Department for the protection of bicycles to be conveyed by rail, but when such crates or bags are supplied they must not be removed from the railway premises. The Railway Department reserves to itself the right to decline any application for supply of bicycle crates or bags.

Motor-bicycles, when charged with naphtha, petroleum, gas, or any inflammable liquid or vapour, will not be accepted for conveyance on any train.

Lost Luggage.

Luggage left in a train or found on Railway premises will be charged for s. d.
booking as lost luggage, at per package, in addition to cloak-room charges ... ... ... ... ... 0 4
Maximum charges per package ... ... ... ... ... 2 6

Checked luggage for stations at which there are no officers in charge not claimed while train is standing at station will be treated and charged as “lost luggage.”

Lost luggage, if not claimed within three months, may be sold.

The platform will be cleared after each train, and all property found will be treated as lost luggage.

Left Luggage.

Luggage left in the cloak-room will be charged, for the first day, per s. d.
parcel not exceeding 56 lb. ... ... ... ... 0 2
Ditto, over 56 lb., and not over 112 lb. ... ... ... 0 4
Ditto, over 112 lb. ... ... ... ... 0 6
And for each day or part of a day after 24 hours, per parcel ... 0 1

In computing the charges, Sunday is considered a dies non, unless it be the day on which the articles are deposited or taken out, in which case it must be reckoned.

Commercial travellers’ samples arriving by train overnight, or after warehouses or sample-rooms are closed, or sent to railway-stations overnight for despatch by morning train, may be left in the cloak-room overnight, and stored free of charge, at owner’s risk, up to eighteen hours, after which time full storage rates will be charged.

Where such samples arrive at stations during the daytime when warehouses and ample-rooms are open, ordinary left luggage charges will be made.

Checked luggage for officered stations not claimed on arrival at destination will be stored free for twelve hours from time of arrival, after which time full storage rates will be charged.

Any luggage not claimed within three months may be sold.

The Department reserves the right to refuse any package which it may deem offensive or objectionable.

When passengers who have deposited their luggage in cloak-rooms require to remove one or more of the articles so left (leaving the remainder until a future occasion) they must surrender their Left-luggage Tickets and pay all storage charges which have accrued, when a fresh Left-luggage Ticket will be issued for