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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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PASSENGERS—continued.

11. “Newspaper,” for the purposes of this regulation, means a news-sheet in which the principal matter published is news of general public interest and of which the primary purpose is the publication of such news. The Department reserves to itself the right to decide whether any publication is a newspaper within the meaning of this regulation.

12. News Agents’ Season Tickets.

13. Season tickets at half the rates for season tickets (Regulation 12) or annual season tickets (Regulation 13) will be issued to news agents upon the production of a certificate from the proprietor or manager of a newspaper certifying that the ticket is to be used only for the purpose of selling newspapers or reading-matter on the trains by a bona fide news agent wholly engaged on the staff of such newspaper and not following any other profession or occupation.

14. The maximum weight of books, periodicals, and newspapers which news agents are allowed to carry free of charge is 56 lb. News agents are not allowed to sell newspapers, periodicals, or books on the station-platforms, or in trains whilst standing at bookstall stations.

15. The Department reserves the right to decline any application for a news agent’s ticket.

16. News agents shall conduct their business in an orderly and courteous manner, and shall not keep or expose for sale, or have in any portion of a railway-train or elsewhere on the railway, any newspapers, pictures, prints, literature, or publications whatever of an immoral, indecent, lewd, vicious, obscene, or doubtful character or nature. Should any question arise as to the nature of any newspaper, picture, print, literature, or publication, the matter shall be submitted to the General Manager, New Zealand Railways, Wellington, whose decision shall be final and binding on the news agent. News-agents shall not offer for sale any newspaper, picture, print, literature, or publication that the General Manager forbids.

17. In the event of any breach of the regulations or the by-laws the Department may withdraw the right of any news agent to sell newspapers and other literature on any train, and may order the forfeiture of such news agent’s railway-ticket.

18. Apprentices, Pupil-teachers, Articled Clerks, and Young Persons in Employment.

19. Season tickets at half the rate for season tickets (Regulation 12) will be issued to persons in employment whose age does not exceed twenty-one years, upon production of certificates in the following form:—

I hereby certify that is a bona fide*† in my employ.
Date: . [Signature of employer.]

• Insert name of applicant. † Insert “apprentice,” “pupil-teacher,” or as the case may be.

I hereby certify that I am the person referred to in the certificate above set forth, that I reside at* , and that my present age is† years months. I hereby request that a‡ season ticket at half-rates, available between§ and§ , be issued to me in pursuance of the provision in that behalf contained in the Railway scale of fares, &c.
Date: . [Signature of applicant.]

• Insert place of residence. † Insert age of applicant. ‡ Insert “monthly,” “quarterly,” &c., as the case may be. § Insert station name.

2. These tickets will be issued only to enable the holder to travel between the station in the neighbourhood of which he resides and the place of his employment, and they will not be available for use on Sundays.

3. School Season Tickets.

4. Season tickets, available for each standard school term as notified by the Education Department, will be issued to scholars and students exclusively engaged in their studies, and not in receipt of salary or emolument, at the rates specified in the following paragraph, and subject to the undermentioned conditions:—

For students and scholars not exceeding 16 years of age .. .. 45 0 15 0
For students and scholars over 16 and not exceeding 20 years of age .. .. 60 0 30 0
For students and scholars over 20 years of age half the rate for three-monthly season tickets (Regulation 12) will be charged.
Minimum charge—first class, 75s.; second class, 45s.

2. Where a school observes terms which do not coincide with the opening and closing dates as approved by the Education Department for the district in which such school is situated, a surcharge will be made in respect of any school season ticket the currency of which commences before or expires after the approved date, as the case may be, so that the period of the currency of such ticket is longer than would have been the case if the terms as approved by the Education Department had been observed. Surcharges will be payable at the following rates:—

For students and scholars not exceeding 16 years of age .. .. 3 3 1 3
For students and scholars over 16 but not exceeding 20 years of age .. 4 3 2 3