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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 28

Insert—

Main Trunk Express Trains.

Tickets to or from intermediate stations between Wellington (Thorndon) and Palmerston North are not available for travel by the north- or south-bound Main Trunk express trains. Passengers found on these trains with tickets to or from intermediate stations between Wellington (Thorndon) and Palmerston North shall pay the full ordinary rates for eighty-seven miles.

PART III.—GOODS.

REGULATIONS.

Insert—

Auckland Exhibition.

44. In consideration of their being carried solely at the risk of consignors, and of the Government being freed of all liability in connection therewith, exhibits consigned for exhibition at the Auckland Exhibition, to be opened at Auckland on 1st December, 1913, will be carried free on the New Zealand Government railways, provided that each package shall be consigned to the Secretary of the Exhibition, and marked legibly “For exhibition at Auckland Exhibition.”

Under similar conditions, and on the production of a certificate from the Secretary of the Exhibition stating that the exhibits have not been transferred, exchanged, or sold, and are still the property of the original consignors, free railage will be granted on the return journey.

All loading and unloading shall be done at the risk and expense of the consignors.

In the event of any portion of the exhibits being sold, the full ordinary railage charges must be paid on the whole of the exhibits as originally consigned to the Exhibition, and also on the unsold portion which is returned from the Exhibition.

PART IV.—GOODS : LOCAL RATES.

SOUTH ISLAND MAIN LINE AND BRANCHES.

Cancel—

Dunedin and Invercargill.

Goods of Classes A, B, C, and D not otherwise specified below, between Dunedin and Invercargill, in quantities of 5 cwt. and over, will be charged 18s. per ton. Quantities of less than 5 cwt. will be charged as follows : Consignments not exceeding 28 lb., 56 lb., and 84 lb. at the small-lots rate (Regulation 2), computed on the basis of the classified rates ; maximum charge, 3s. 6d. Consignments exceeding 84 lb., at 3s. 6d. for the first cwt., and 3d. for each additional cwt. or fraction of a cwt. These rates include delivery at Invercargill.

Threshing-machines, reapers-and-binders, winnowing-machines, bulky machinery, carriages and gigs in pieces, unpainted and in the rough, mattresses unpacked, tram-cars, motor-cars in cases, and furniture packed, between Dunedin and Invercargill, in quantities of 5 cwt. and over, will be charged 30s. per ton. Quantities of less than 5 cwt. will be charged 5s. 6d. for the first cwt., and 6d. for each additional cwt. or fraction of a cwt. These rates include delivery at Invercargill.

Parcels for Distribution at Destination.—When more articles or parcels than one are sent, packed or loose, from one consignor to one consignee, for express companies or forwarding agents, and are for distribution at destination, the minimum charge will be 7s. 6d.

Goods for Invercargill.

When goods of Classes A, B, C, D, and E are consigned to Invercargill the classified rates will be increased by 1s. 1d. per ton, but such increase will not be made when goods are consigned to private sidings at that station or to the Invercargill Jetty.

Bluff and Invercargill.

Goods of Classes A, B, C, and D, from Bluff to Invercargill, not to private sidings . . . 7 7 per ton.

Goods of Classes A, B, C, and D, from Bluff to Invercargill, to private sidings . . . 6 6 ”

Goods of Classes A, B, C, and D, from Invercargill to Bluff . . . 6 6 ”

Ships’ goods will be charged according to bill of lading, or by weight or measurement, at option of Department, provided that the charges shall not be computed on more than twice the actual weight of any consignment. Other goods by weight or measurement, as the Department directs.

Insert—

Dunedin and Invercargill.

Goods of Classes A, B, C, and D not otherwise specified below, between Dunedin and Invercargill, in quantities of 5 cwt. and over, will be charged 18s. per ton. Quantities of less than 5 cwt. will be charged as follows : Consignments not exceeding 28 lb., 56 lb., and 84 lb. at the small-lots rate (Regulation 2), computed on the basis of the classified rates ; maximum charge, 3s. 6d. Consignments exceeding 84 lb., at 3s. 6d. for the first cwt., and 3d. for each additional cwt. or fraction of a cwt.

Threshing-machines, reapers-and-binders, winnowing-machines, bulky machinery, carriages and gigs in pieces, unpainted and in the rough, mattresses unpacked, tram-cars, motor-cars in cases, and furniture packed, between Dunedin and Invercargill, in quantities of 5 cwt. and over, will be charged 30s. per ton. Quantities of less than 5 cwt. will be charged 5s. 6d. for the first cwt., and 6d. for each additional cwt. or fraction of a cwt.

Parcels for Distribution at Destination.—When more articles or parcels than one are sent, packed or loose, from one consignor to one consignee, for express companies or forwarding agents, and are for distribution at destination, the minimum charge will be 7s. 6d.

Bluff and Invercargill.

Goods of Classes A, B, C, and D, from Bluff to Invercargill, will be charged . . . 6 6 per ton.

Goods of Classes A, B, C, and D, from Invercargill to Bluff, will be charged . . . 6 6 ”

Ships’ goods will be charged according to bill of lading, or by weight or measurement, at option of Department, provided that the charges shall not be computed on more than twice the actual weight of any consignment. Other goods by weight or measurement, as the Department directs.

As witness my hand this 31st day of March, 1913.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

Reciprocal Recognition of British and Spanish Tonnage Certificates.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 25th March, 1913.

THE following despatch and its enclosures, received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, are published for general information.

A. L. HERDMAN,
For Minister of Marine.

(New Zealand.—No. 17.)

Downing Street, 7th January, 1913.

My LORD,—With reference to Mr. Lyttelton’s circular despatch of the 3rd March, 1904, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying copies of a circular instruction which the Board of Trade have issued to their Surveyors respecting the reciprocal recognition of British and Spanish tonnage certificates.

I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.

Governor the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool,
K.C.M.G., M.V.O., &c.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Court of Buckingham Palace, the 25th day of May, 1911.

Present,

The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by Section 84, sub-section (1), of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, it is enacted that whenever it appears to His Majesty the King in Council that the tonnage regulations of the said Act have been adopted by any foreign country, and are in force there, His Majesty in Council may order that the ships of that country shall, without being re-measured in His Majesty’s dominions, be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of a British ship is deemed to be the tonnage of that ship.

And whereas it appears to His Majesty that the tonnage regulations of the said Act have been adopted by the Government of His Majesty the King of Spain, and are now in force in that country :