2406

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 58

7. The Department will not be bound to receive any live-stock for carriage
   to or from any railway-station which is not equipped with platforms, yards,
   and other suitable facilities for loading and unloading live-stock. Provided
   that at the option of the Department live-stock may be received for carriage
   to or from such places if the owners accept all the risk.

FEEDING AND WATERING.

8. Live-stock must be adequately fed and watered immediately prior to
   being tendered to the Department for transport, and a certificate may be
   required from the consignor that this has been done. Live-stock may not be
   accepted for transport where this condition has not been complied with.
9. Owners of live-stock must in all cases make their own arrangements for
   feeding, watering, or tending stock. The Department does not accept any
   responsibility in regard thereto.
10. If desired by the owners, live-stock may be off-loaded for feeding and
    watering at a station convenient to the Department between that from which
    they are forwarded and their destination, but they must not be detained more
    than twenty-four hours, otherwise the journey will be regarded as a new journey
    from the point where the stock was detained, and charges will be payable
    thereon accordingly.
11. The Department may, whenever it considers it necessary, provide
    live-stock whilst in its charge with food or water, or both (when practicable),
    at the expense of the consignees or consignors (as the case may be), and for such
    purpose the live-stock may be off-loaded. In no case will any charge be made
    for the water supplied to such stock.
12. In either of the cases referred to in paragraphs 10 and 11 the Department
    may, whenever it performs the work of reloading, make an additional charge
    of 3s. 9d. per four-wheeled truck and 7s. 6d. per double-bogie truck.

LOADING AND UNLOADING.

13. The consignor shall be responsible and shall pay for damage done by
    animals to trucks, enclosures, or other railway property while such animals are
    on the premises of the railway, unless he can prove that the damage is to be
    ascribed to the bad condition of such truck, enclosure, or railway property.

14. Animals which have died during their transport or before delivery to
    consignees must be accepted by the consignor or consignee (as the case may be)
    if the carcase is tendered by the Department, and such carcase must be removed
    forthwith from railway property, failing which the Department will take steps
    to have it removed at the cost of the consignor or consignee (as the case may be).
    If any animal has died whilst in transit and has been removed from the
    truck the consignor or consignee (as the case may be) shall pay the cost of such
    removal and burial as hereinafter provided.

15. Live-stock received by rail at stations must be removed within three
    working-hours after their arrival, otherwise such stock will be unloaded and
    held at the sole risk and expense of the owner.

16. A charge of 3s. per four-wheeled truck and 6s. per double-bogie truck
    will be made for unloading such stock.

17. Except as may be otherwise provided, a charge of 6d. per head of
    cattle, horses, or mules and Id. per head of sheep, goats, calves (under six
    months old), or pigs, or other small stock, will be made for every eight hours
    or portion thereof after the expiry of the first three hours after arrival at
    destination station that the stock so remains in the custody of the Department,
    in addition to any charge that may have been incurred for food, water,
    veterinary surgeon's charges, and the like. Should it be considered necessary,
    the live-stock may, if practicable, at the option of the Department, be sent for
    stabling or grazing at the sole risk and expense of the consignee, and any
    expense incurred by the Department in connection with the feeding, maintenance,
    or custody of such live-stock shall be deemed to be charges payable in respect
    of the carriage of such live-stock.

18. Any animal that, through sickness or through injury received from
    other animals in a truck or through animals in a truck being unduly crowded
    or other similar circumstances, is taken out of a truck and subsequently transported to destination in another truck will be charged as a separate consignment from the station at which it was removed from the original truck to such
    destination station, and in addition any other necessary expenses incurred in
    connection with such sickness, injury, or removal.

19. The cost of removing and burying animals dying in trucks or railway
    enclosures and in circumstances where it is found impossible or, in the opinion
    of the Department, not reasonably practicable to tender the carcase of such
    dead animals to the consignee as provided in paragraph 14 of this regulation
    must be paid by the consignor (or consignee) at the following scale:—
    For each head of cattle, including (calves over six months old), s. d.
    horses, or mules .. .. .. .. .. 10 0
    For each sheep, goat, dog, pig, or calf (under six months old) .. 2 6
    Plus cartage charges (if any).

20. This regulation does not relieve consignees of the responsibility for
    taking delivery of dead animals found in trucks on arrival at destination, as
    provided in paragraph 14 of this regulation.

21. Any live-stock not taken delivery of within one week after arrival at
    destination may, after notice to take delivery of same has been given to the
    owner or consignee or consignor, be sold by auction and the proceeds applied in
    payment of any sums payable in respect of such live-stock and the expense of
    selling the same, and the balance (if any) remaining after such payment shall
    be paid to the owner on application. If neither the owner nor the consignor
    nor the consignee is known, or if they cannot be found, request for delivery to be
    taken of the live-stock published in any newspaper circulating in the district
    or posted for a period of not less than three days at the destination station of
    the live-stock shall be sufficient notice for the purposes of this regulation.