Aug. 11.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

2. When seed is returned under this regulation the consignment-note must be
   endorsed as follows: “The seed entered hereon is New-Zealand-grown, and was
   consigned from Station to Station on _ _for cleaning, and
   is entitled to be carried back at half rates.”

(18.) Goods and Live-stock conveyed by Special Trains.

1. Special trains ordered by consignors for conveyance of goods or live-
   stock which could be worked by the ordinary train service will be charged 14s.
   per mile; minimum charge, £8. This charge will be in addition to the ordinary
   charges for the conveyance of the goods. The mileage will be counted one way
   only. The distance which a train has to run empty to commence a service will
   be charged at the rate of 7s. 6d. per mile.

2. The Department does not undertake to run special trains.

3. Special trains will be run only at the option of the Department. The
   Department reserves to itself the right to forward any of its ordinary traffic by
   any special train, provided that no traffic for which the special train was
   ordered is thereby prevented from being carried by such train; but no reduction
   of the special-train rates shall be made on account of the train being so utilized
   by the Department.

(19.) Circuses.

1. Circuses conveyed by ordinary trains will be charged as follows:—
   Animals, living, including animals in cages, at Class M rates (truck rates
   only)
   Vehicles, empty, at rates for carts, drays, &c.
   Vehicles loaded with material, or in same truck with material, as material.
   (See below.)

2. Material, 8d. per four-wheel truck, not otherwise specified, per mile;
   1s. 1d. per LA truck per mile ; 1s. 5d. per bogie R, U, or 30 ft. Z truck per mile ;
   2s. 1d. per bogie RB, UB, or 47½ft. Z truck per mile. Minimum charge as for
   30 miles in each case.

3. Circuses for which special trains are ordered by the owners will be
   charged as follows:—

Minimum charge for a special train, £28.

4. The distance which a train has to run to commence a service will be charged
   at the rate of 7s. 6d. per mile.

5. Special trains will be run only at the option of the Department.

6. Owners must take all responsibility in regard to accidents to their employees
   and damage to their goods, and do all loading and unloading of circus and plant.
   They will also be liable for the expense of making good any damage done to the
   Department’s rolling-stock in connection with the loading, unloading, or
   carriage of any circus.

(20.) Locomotive Engines.

1. Locomotive engines running on their own wheels will be charged as
   follows:—
   Under their own steam, 3s. 9d. per mile.
   Dead, 4s. 3d. per mile.
   Minimum charge as for 20 miles.

2. When locomotive engines are run under their own steam they must,
   if the Department so requires, be manned by employees of the Department, and
   the wages and allowances payable to such employees in connection with the
   transport of any such engine over the railway, together with the cost of any
   fuel oil, &c., supplied by the Department for the running of the engine, shall
   be payable by the consignor (or consignee) in addition to the charges set forth
   in paragraph 1 of this regulation.

3. When dead locomotives have to be hauled by special train the charges
   as for a special train at the rates specified in Regulation 18 of this part shall be
   payable in addition to the charges specified in the preceding provisions of this
   regulation.

(21.) Carts, Drays, Express Wagons, and Wagons.

1. Carts, drays, express wagons, and wagons not exceeding 1 ton, either
   set up or in pieces, will be charged as follows for each vehicle:—

2. Heavy wagons, over 1 ton in weight, rate and a half. Minimum charge,
   21s. each wagon.

3. When two or more vehicles as above, either set up or in pieces, consigned
   from one consignor to one consignee, are loaded together in one four-wheeled
   truck, they will be charged full rates for the first vehicle and half rates for each
   additional vehicle, but will be carried at owner’s risk.

4. A bogie truck will, for the purpose of the last preceding paragraph, be
   treated as two four-wheeled trucks.

(22.) Furniture-vans and Household Removals.

1. Furniture conveyed in furniture-vans or transports will be charged Class
   B, computed on the gross weight of van or transport and contents.

2. Furniture-vans or transports returning empty after having been conveyed
   loaded by rail, or when being forwarded empty to be returned loaded by rail,
   will be conveyed at the rate for wagons (Regulation 21, Part III), no extra
   charge being made for vans or transports over 1 ton in weight.