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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 85

PASSENGERS—continued.

3. Subject to reasonable notice being given, a certificate authorizing a concession under paragraphs 1 or 2 will be issued by any District Manager, Stationmaster, or Business Agent, upon application. Parties travelling under this regulation must travel by the trains arranged. The certificate referred to herein must be presented to the guard or any other member of the Department when the tickets are examined and at any other time upon request.

4. Tickets issued under the provisions of this regulation will have the same availability as ordinary tickets (Regulation 2) or holiday excursion tickets (Regulation 5), as the case may be. The minimum charge per passenger will be 2s.

5. The Department reserves the right to decline any application.

6. Theatrical, Concert, and Circus Companies.

(1) Bands of musicians, theatrical, concert, and circus companies, travelling together in companies for which not less than six full tickets are taken out in each case, will be charged as follows, viz.:

Second class single fares (Regulation 2) or second-class holiday excursion fares (Regulation 5) as the case may be, available for first-class carriages.

(2) Tickets will be available for the same period as ordinary or holiday excursion tickets, as the case may be, for the same distance.

3. Advance agents of companies entitled to this concession travelling apart from the company they represent will be granted the same concession as the company.

4. Advance agents must pay ordinary fares (Regulation 2) in the first instance; rebate of difference will be allowed when the company purchases the remainder of the tickets.

5. The total number of tickets required, exclusive of the advance agents, must be taken out at the same time and for the same date.

6. Application for these concessions must first be made to the District Manager.

7. The Department reserves to itself the right to decline any application.

8. Railway Employees’ Privilege Tickets.

9. Privilege tickets at one-fourth the ordinary fares (Regulation 2), suburban fares (Regulation 40) or local fares (Regulation 41 or Regulation 43), where applicable, may be issued to railway employees and to their wives and children in terms of the regulations made in that behalf under the Government Railways Act, 1926.

For the purpose of this regulation an ordinary return fare will be deemed to be the value of two single fares (Regulation 2).

2. Privilege season tickets at one-fourth of the fares for season tickets (Regulation 12) may be issued to railway employees as provided by the regulations made in that behalf under the Government Railways Act, 1926.

3. The minimum charge for privilege tickets will be 9d. first class, 6d. second class, single or return. For privilege season tickets the minimum charge will be 10s. first class, 7s. second class.

4. Privilege tickets will be issued only on presentation of the prescribed orders.

5. Tourist Excursion Tickets.

6. Tourist excursion tickets (first or second class) will be issued at the following rates:

(a) Available over lines of both Islands for seven weeks, including date of commencement of availability for travel—First class, £16 5s.; second class, £13.

(b) Available over North Island lines for four weeks, including date of commencement of availability for travel—First class, £10; second class, £7 10s.

(c) Available over South Island lines for four weeks, including date of commencement of availability for travel—First class, £10; second class, £7 10s.

2. These tickets are not transferable. They are available over Government lines open for traffic and under the control of the Department, and are obtainable at the principal railway-stations and from the officer in charge at Queenstown and City or Central Booking-offices at Auckland, Wellington, or Christchurch.

3. Tourist excursion tickets (a) and (c) series are available for travel by the Lake Wakatipu steamer service.

4. Tourist excursion tickets may be extended for any period not exceeding four weeks on payment of an extension fee of £2 10s. first class or £1 17s. 6d. second class per week or portion of a week. Persons desiring an extension of time must apply to any officered station, the officer in charge, Queenstown, or at the City or Central Booking-offices, Auckland, Wellington, or Christchurch, before the expiration of the original ticket, and deliver up the original ticket together with the extension fee.

5. Any holder of a second-class tourist ticket travelling in a class of carriage superior to that for which the ticket was issued must pay the difference between the ordinary single fares for the respective classes for the distance so travelled.

6. Judges proceeding to Shows, Exhibitors, Attendants, Owners, or Trainers travelling in Charge of Live-stock or Racehorses.

7. JUDGES OF EXHIBITS PROCEEDING TO SHOWS.

(1.) Judges proceeding to agricultural, horticultural, dog, and poultry shows, ploughing matches, and horse-parades, for the purpose of judging thereat may