Nov. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3187

PASSSENGERS--continued.

2. For invalids and Judges of Supreme Court and Judge and members of the Arbitration Court the charge for a reserved (six-passenger) compartment will be as for four first-class ordinary fares (Regulation 2) computed on the actual mileage for which the compartment is reserved.

3. When a whole or half car is required for an invalid twelve first-class ordinary fares (Regulation 2) will be charged. The reservation of whole or half cars for other persons than invalids will be by special arrangement only.

4. The Department does not undertake to supply reserved carriages or compartments, and reserves to itself the right to decline any application.

5. Where more than the minimum number of passengers travel in a reserved car ordinary fares (Regulation 2) must be paid for the actual number of passengers in the car, but the fares of the passengers in excess of the minimum number shall be computed on the actual distance they travel.

6. Excursion Trains.

7. Excursion trains may be run by special request upon payment of a deposit, as a guarantee, returnable if the special revenue accruing from the running of such excursion train exceeds the amount of the deposit, equivalent to the charge for eighty second-class return tickets, holiday excursion (Regulation 5), suburban (Regulation 40), or local (Regulation 41 or Regulation 43) as the case may be. Minimum charge, £12 10s.

8. The distance which a special excursion train has to run empty to commence a run will be charged at the rate of 7s. 6d. per mile, and the amount so charged will be added to the deposit specified in the last preceding paragraph.

9. Where a deposit, demanded by the Department, is paid as a guarantee in respect of the running of an excursion train, and the special revenue from the running of such excursion train exceeds the amount of the deposit, the guarantor will be paid 20 per cent. of the special revenue received in excess of the amount of the guarantee.

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

11. Special Trains.

12. Special trains will be charged as follows :—
    For one carriage, per mile up to 30 miles
    For every additional mile
    For every additional carriage, per mile
    Minimum charge
    £ s. d.
    0 15 0
    0 12 0
    0 7 6
    12 10 0

13. The mileage will be counted one way only.

14. When engine is ordered and not used, half the minimum charge will be made.

15. The charge will in no case be less than for the total number of passengers carried charged at fares computed at rate and a quarter of the ordinary (Regulation 2), holiday excursion (Regulation 5), suburban (Regulation 40), or local (Regulation 41 or Regulation 43), single or return fares, as the case may be, according to the journey made by the train in each case.

16. Special trains will be permitted to wait five hours at the station of destination, after which period and until seven hours' detention from time of arrival half special train rates will be charged for the return journey; after seven hours detention at the destination station full special-train rates will be charged for the return journey.

17. The distance which a train has to run empty to commence a service will be charged at the rate of 7s. 6d. per mile.

18. Special trains will be run only at the option of the Department. The Department reserves to itself the right to forward any of its ordinary traffic by any special train, provided that no traffic for which the special train was ordered is thereby prevented from being carried by such train, but no reduction of the special-train rates shall be made on account of the train being so utilized by the Department.

19. Restrictions on Travel by Specified Trains.

20. Whenever any person shall make by any train any journey which, according to the Department's time-tables or other public notice, he is not entitled to make by that train, such person shall, without prejudice to any other penalty to which he may be liable, pay the appropriate fare for the shortest journey which he is entitled to make by such train and which shall wholly include the journey actually made by him as aforesaid.

21. Refunds on Ordinary Tickets.

22. The Department does not undertake to refund money or to make allowance in respect of any ticket, pass, or symbol which has been lost, mislaid, mutilated, or defaced, except as otherwise provided.

23. When a ticket is purchased and it is found that it is not required or cannot be used, a refund of the fare paid may be allowed, provided the ticket with a written application is lodged with the Department before the expiry of the period for which such ticket is available.

24. When a passenger is unable to complete the journey for which a single ticket has been purchased, a refund may be allowed by the Department for the portion of the journey not travelled, provided the ticket with written application for refund is lodged with the Department before the expiry of the period for which it is available.

25. In bona fide cases in which the holders of return portions of tickets are prevented from travelling on the return journey, a refund may be allowed of the difference, if any, between the fare paid and the single fare, provided the ticket with written application for refund is lodged with the Department before the expiry of the period for which such ticket is available.

26. Except as provided in the next succeeding paragraph of this Regulation no refunds will be granted on tickets for journeys of 25 miles or less.