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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 109

LOST LUGGAGE.
Luggage left in a train or found on railway premises
will be charged for booking as lost luggage, at per s. d.
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 pro-
perty found will be treated as lost luggage.

LEFT LUGGAGE.
Luggage left in the cloak-room will be charged, for the s. d.
first day, per 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 sample-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 the remaining packages without the initial
charge; store charges, at 1d. per package per day or part
thereof, will be made on the remaining packages when the
same are ultimately claimed.
Left-luggage tickets must be given up on demand to any
officer of the New Zealand Government Railways.
The liability of the Minister for loss or damage is limited
by the 12th section of the Government Railways Act, 1908,
to a sum not exceeding £10 in respect to each package of left
luggage.

LEFT PARCELS.
Left-parcels labels, of the value of 2d. each, may be
obtained upon application at the principal stations, which,
when attached to parcels not exceeding 56 lb. weight sent to
the station, and delivered to the person in charge of the
cloak-room, will entitle the bearer of the duplicate to receive
the parcel at the cloak-room on application. A further
charge of 1d. per parcel will be made for each day or part of
a day after twenty-four hours. Any parcel not claimed
within three months may be sold.
The liability of the Minister for loss or damage is limited
by the 12th section of the Government Railways Act, 1908,
to a sum not exceeding £10 in respect to each left parcel.

INSERT— CHECKED LUGGAGE.
31. For each check issued for luggage to be con-
veyed on a continuous journey on one section of
railway the charge will be .. .. .. s. d.
0 3
For each check issued for luggage to be conveyed by
railway and ferry steamer between points in the
North and South Islands, or vice versa, the charge,
including cartage between rail and steamer at Wel-
linton, will be .. .. .. .. 0 6
The charges as above include one month’s free storage at
destination station.
Each package must be in good order and securely fastened.
Bicycles, fruit, groceries, cardboard boxes, or merchandise of
any description (other than bona fide samples) are not regarded
by the shipping company as passengers’ luggage and cannot
be checked through.
Checked luggage not claimed within three months may be
sold.
The liability of the Minister for loss or damage is limited
by the 12th section of the Government Railways Act, 1908,
to a sum not exceeding £10 in respect to each checked
package.

LOST LUGGAGE.
Luggage left in a train or found unclaimed on railway
premises will be charged, at per package, for booking s. d.
as lost luggage .. .. .. .. 0 3
The charge for lost luggage includes one month’s free
storage.
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 pro-
perty found will be treated as lost luggage.

LEFT LUGGAGE.
Luggage left in custody of the Department will be s. d.
charged for each package .. .. .. 0 3
The charge for left luggage includes one month’s free
storage.
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.
Left-luggage tickets must be given up on demand to any
officer of the New Zealand Government Railways.
The liability of the Minister for loss or damage is limited
by the 12th section of the Government Railways Act, 1908,
to a sum not exceeding £10 in respect to each package of left
luggage.

LEFT PARCELS.
Left-parcel labels, in books of twenty, may be obtained on
application at the principal stations at a charge of 5s. per
book.
When a parcel bearing one of these labels is delivered to
the custody of the Department the counterfoil in book, if
presented simultaneously with the parcel, will be receipted
and returned to the depositor, and the bearer of the duplicate
numbered label will be entitled to receive the relative parcel
on application.
The charge for left parcels includes one month’s free
storage.
Any parcel not claimed within three months may be sold.
The liability of the Minister for loss or damage is limited
by the 12th section of the Government Railways Act, 1908,
to a sum not exceeding £10 in respect to each left parcel.
As witness my hand this 3rd day of September, 1915.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

Alterations to the Scale of Fares, Rates, and Charges in Force
upon the New Zealand Government Railways.

IN pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling me
under the Government Railways Act, 1908, I, William
Herbert Herries, Minister of Railways, do hereby make the
following alterations in the scale of fares, rates, and charges
in force on the New Zealand Government railways open for
traffic, such alterations to come into force on and after the
19th day of September, 1915.

PART I.—PASSENGERS.
GENERAL FARES AND REGULATIONS AND LOCAL FARES AND REGULATIONS.
ALL passenger fares in force on the 19th day of September,
1915, with the undermentioned exceptions, will on and after
that date, and until further notice, be increased by one
penny for every shilling or fraction of a shilling contained
therein.

Exceptions:—
Fares for Military Forces.
Fares for workers’ twelve-trip commutation tickets.
Fares for workers’ weekly tickets.
Fares for tourist excursion tickets.

PART II.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC.
All charges for parcels, luggage, bicycles, horses, carriages,
motor-cars, dogs, milk, &c., in force on the 19th day of Sep-
tember, 1915, with the undermentioned exceptions, will on
and after that date, and until further notice, be increased
10 per centum, the minimum increase to be one penny.

Exceptions:—
Tabulated parcel rates. Left luggage.
Checked luggage. Left parcels.
Lost luggage.