Alterations to Scale of Charges in force upon the New Zealand
Government Railways.

IN pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling me
under the Government Railways Act, 1908, and its
amendments, and of all other powers enabling me in this
behalf, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, acting for the Minister
of Railways, do hereby make the following alterations in the
scale of charges in force on the New Zealand Government
Railways open for traffic made on the 10th day of August,
1925, and published in the Gazette of 11th August, 1925:

PART III.--GOODS.
By adding the word "bone-char" after the words "in each
case for bones" in the first line of paragraph 3 of Regulation
11.
By adding to Regulation 11 the following:—
7. When reloading or adjusting the load en route is
necessary 2s. 10d. per ton may be charged for such reloading
or adjusting.
By adding the words "Paragraph 6 of" immediately before
the word "Regulation" in the last line of paragraph 1
of Regulation 24.

PART IV.--GOODS : LOCAL RATES.
NORTH ISLAND MAIN LINE AND BRANCHES.
By omitting the following:—
Coal consigned from Waro or Hikurangi Coal Company's
siding to Onerahi for bunkering ships at Onerahi or for
shipment to ports other than Auckland will be charged
3s. 10d. per ton, including weighing and delivery to ship
by skip.
Coal from Waro or Hikurangi Coal Company's siding
to Onerahi for shipment to Auckland will be charged
4s. 7d. per ton, including delivery to ship by skip.

Butter and Cheese.—Special Rates.
Butter and cheese Tariki to Moturoa, 14s. 1d. per ton.

By adding the following:—
Coal consigned from Waro, Hikurangi, or Hikurangi
Coal Company's siding to Onerahi for bunkering ships at
Onerahi or for shipment to ports other than Auckland will
be charged 3s. 10d. per ton, including weighing and delivery
to ship by skip.
Coal consigned from Waro, Hikurangi, or Hikurangi
Coal Company's siding to Onerahi for shipment to Auckland
will be charged 4s. 7d. per ton, including delivery to
ship by skip.
Wool Rates.
Wool in bales, undumped, from Pakipaki to Port Ahuriri
will be charged 1s. 7d. per bale.

Butter and Cheese.—Special Rates.
Butter and cheese from Otaki to Wellington will be
charged 21s. 8d. per ton.

SOUTH ISLAND MAIN LINE AND BRANCHES.
By omitting the following regulations:—
Shunting between Private Sidings at Christchurch,
Riccarton, and Addington.
All goods carried between private sidings at Riccarton
and private sidings at Addington will be charged 1s. 5d.
per ton or portion of a ton; minimum charge, 7s.
Grain in lots of not less than 20 tons carried between
private sidings at Christchurch and private sidings at
Riccarton and Addington will be charged 2s. 5d. per ton.

And substituting the following:—
Shunting between Private Sidings and Station Yards,
Christchurch, Riccarton, and Addington.
All goods carried between private sidings and station
yards at Riccarton and private sidings and station yards
at Addington will be charged 1s. 5d. per ton or portion of
a ton; minimum charge, 7s.
Grain in lots of not less than 20 tons carried between
private sidings and station yards at Christchurch and
private sidings and station yards at Riccarton and Addington
will be charged 2s. 5d. per ton.

PART V.--CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS, LIVE-STOCK,
ETC.
By omitting the following:—
Bleach soda-ash, packed, consigned to paper-mills.
Owner's risk
Boilers and shell flues, copper or iron, kitchen,
washing, or other open, not otherwise specified.
Owner's risk
Boiler-casings, concrete. Owner's risk. Special
goods
Boxes or cartons, cardboard or strawboard, collapsed
or nested, not otherwise specified, packed
in cases or crates. Owner's risk
Boxes or cartons, cardboard or strawboard,
collapsed or nested, New Zealand manufacture,
packed in cases or crates. Owner's risk
Boxes consigned to soap or butter factories, in
pieces, packed, not "returned empties" (or
Class K, if cheaper). Half rate
Butter-boxes in pieces, packed, not "returned
empties." Half rate (Class K, if cheaper)
Cartons, cardboard or strawboard, collapsed or
nested, not otherwise specified, packed in cases
or crates. Owner's risk
Cartons, cardboard or strawboard, collapsed or
nested, New Zealand manufacture, packed in
cases or crates. Owner's risk
Cheese-boxes in shooks. Half rate (Class K, if
cheaper)
Concrete boiler-casings. Owner's risk. Special
goods
Flues, shell
Paper, parchment, for lining butter-boxes, packed
Shooks, packed in bundles, not otherwise specified
Soap-boxes in pieces consigned to soap-factories,
packed, not "returned empties" (Class K, if
cheaper). Half rate
Soda-ash, bleach, packed, consigned to paper-
mills. Owner's risk

And adding the following--
Boilers, copper or iron, washing or kitchen.
Owner's risk. Special goods
Boiler-frames, cast-iron, washing or other open,
with or without copper boiler. Owner's risk.
Special goods
Boiler frames or casings, concrete, washing or
other open, with or without copper boiler.
Owner's risk. Special goods
Boxes or cartons, cardboard or strawboard,
collapsed or nested, not otherwise specified,
packed in cases or crates or securely packed in
bundles. Owner's risk
Boxes or cartons, cardboard or strawboard,
collapsed or nested, New Zealand manufacture,
packed in cases or crates or securely packed in
bundles. Owner's risk
Boxes, in pieces, packed, consigned to butter or
soap factories, not "returned empties" (the
charges not to exceed those computed at the
appropriate rate for imported or New Zealand
timber, as the case may be, under Class K).
Half rate
Cartons, cardboard or strawboard, collapsed or
nested, not otherwise specified, packed in cases
or crates or securely packed in bundles. Owner's
risk
Cartons, cardboard or strawboard, collapsed or
nested, New Zealand manufacture, packed in
cases or crates or securely packed in bundles.
Owner's risk
Concrete boiler-frames or casings, washing or
other open, with or without copper boiler,
Owner's risk. Special goods
Flues, shell. Owner's risk
Foods, farinaceous, not otherwise specified,
including such imported preparations as "All
Bran" and "Pep," packed. Owner's risk
Paper, parchment, for lining packages containing
New Zealand produce, packed
Rice-meal consigned direct to factories for use in
the manufacture of stock foods
Shooks for the manufacture of cheese-boxes (the
charges not to exceed those computed at the
appropriate rate for imported or New Zealand
timber as the case may be, under Class K).
Half rate
Shooks, packed in bundles, not otherwise specified
(the charges not to exceed those computed at
the appropriate rate for imported or New
Zealand timber, as the case may be, under
Class K)
Soda ash, packed. Owner's risk