2980
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

10. Parcels or packages containing or consisting of the following articles will be charged rate and a quarter :—

Artificial flowers.
Basketware.
Basket-chairs.
Bath-chairs.
Bicycles, pedal (not packed in cases or crates) to seat one rider.
Bicycles, pedal, packed in cases or crates.
Bicycle and motor-bicycle rims, wheels, frames, or forks.
Bird-cages.
Birds in cages.
Cardboard or strawboard boxes, (empty or containing millinery, feathers, or other goods liable to damage by crushing).
Coffins.
Cycle-trailers.
Dress-stands.
Glassware, chinaware, or crockery (except druggists’ bottles) not packed in cases.
Gramaphones not packed in cases or crates.

Hand-carts.
Liquids not packed in cases.
Mattresses, bolsters, pillows, or other packages containing kapok, flock, wool, tow, horsehair, or similar materials.
Mirrors or looking-glasses, not packed in cases or crates.
Perambulators and go-carts.
Pictures not packed in cases or crates.
Picture-frames and mouldings.
Rocking-horses.
Side-cars for motor-bicycles.
Stags’ heads, mounted or unmounted.
Stretchers, wire.
Stuffed birds and animals.
Toys.
Tricycles, tricycle-wheels, or frames.
Typewriters, loose.
Wickerware.
Wreaths and other similar articles made up of cut flowers or plants.

11. When more parcels than one are consigned by one consignor to one consignee as one consignment they will be charged for separately, except as specified in paragraph 12 of this regulation.

12. When more parcels than one consisting of the undermentioned commodities are consigned from one consignor to one consignee at the same destination station such parcels will be charged upon the total weight of each consignment :—

Birds in cages.
Bread.
Butter.
Cheese.
Eggs.
Fish, fresh, frozen, or chilled.
Flowers, cut, not made up into wreaths, &c., packed in baskets, hampers, or boxes.
Fruit, fresh, produce of New Zealand, Cook Islands, or Niue.
Game, fresh, frozen, or chilled.
Hares, fresh, frozen, or chilled.
Ice.
Meat, fresh, frozen, or chilled.
Mushrooms, produce of New Zealand.
Nuts, produce of New Zealand, Cook Islands, or Niue.
Pigeons, live, in hampers.
Plants, including tomato and vegetable and flower seedlings, not packed in soil.
Poultry, live.
Poultry, fresh, frozen, or chilled.
Rabbits, fresh, frozen, or chilled.
Seeds.
Shrubs.
Vegetables, fresh, produce of New Zealand, Cook Islands, or Niue.

The charge of 6d. for each hundredweight or part of a hundredweight as provided in paragraph 3 of this regulation will be computed on the total weight of each consignment carried under the provisions of this paragraph.

No consignment exceeding 2 cwt. in weight or 20 cubic feet in measurement will be accepted under the provisions of this paragraph.

13. Bicycles, pedal, not packed in cases or crates, to seat one rider, each machine will be charged as 28 lb. For every seat after the first, on each machine to seat more than one rider, 50 per cent. additional will be charged. Bicycles pedal, packed in cases or crates, will be charged on actual weight at the foregoing rates.

14. Bicycles with motor-propelling attachment will be charged rate and a quarter, computed on actual weight.

15. Bicycles, motor, to seat one rider, will be charged rate and a half. Charges will be computed on actual weight in each case.

16. Bicycles, motor, with trailers or side-cars attached, will be charged double the rates for motor-bicycles ; charge shall not exceed that for a motor-car.

17. Tricycles, motor, will be charged two and a half times the ordinary parcels rates on actual weight ; maximum charge as for a motor-car.

18. Parcels containing or consisting of the following articles will be charged double rate :—

Canoes.
Crackers, Chinese.
Fuze.

In no case shall the charge for a canoe be less than as for 5 cwt. at Class A rate, Part III.

19. The maximum weight of Chinese crackers carried through Parcels Department by any one train will be 14 lb.

20. Dangerous goods other than Chinese crackers, safety small-arm cartridges, fuze, and cinematograph-films, will not be accepted for carriage through Parcels Department.

21. Parcels must be at the station at least thirty minutes before the due time of departure of the train by which they are to be forwarded.

22. Charges on all letter parcels must be prepaid.

As witness my hand this 10th day of October, 1928.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Railways.