3538
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

GOODS.
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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 (Thorndon), Wellington (Lambton), 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—12 bags of 3½ bushels to the ton.
Barley—12 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Oats—14 bags of 4 bushels to the ton.
Flour, Bran, Pollard, and Oatmeal—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.

The maximum weight of any class of cereal or other agricultural produce (potatoes excepted) contained in any one sack to be carried by railway shall be 200 lb.

The maximum weight of potatoes contained in any one sack to be carried by railway shall be 224 lb.

Any sack of any class of cereal or other agricultural produce (potatoes excepted) containing a greater weight than 200 lb. shall be charged for at the rate of 10s. per ton in addition to the ordinary railage charges.

Any sack of potatoes containing a greater weight than 224 lb. shall be charged for at the rate of 10s. per ton in addition to the ordinary railway charges.

(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, stakes, posts and rails (New Zealand timber), 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.