JUNE 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1437

8. The Department does not undertake to convey packages exceeding 20 cubic feet in measurement at parcel rates, but where any such package is tendered for transit it may be accepted provided the dimensions of the package are such as will not cause any inconvenience in handling the same.

9. Bread, loose, will be charged 1d. per loaf. Where bread is packed in boxes or bags parcel rates will be charged.

10. Bicycles, pedal, not packed in cases or crates, to seat one rider, each machine will be charged 1s. 3d. 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 goods rates.

11. Bicycles, motor, to seat one rider will be charged 7s. 6d. each.

12. Bicycles, motor, with side-cars attached or motor-tricycles will be charged 10s. each. Side-cars detached from motor-bicycles will be charged 2s. 6d. each.

13. 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 :—

Bread.
Butter.
Cake.
Cheese.
Eggs.
Eskimo pie.
Fish, fresh, salted, 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.
Ice-cream.
Meat, fresh, salted, frozen, or chilled.
Mushrooms, produce of New Zealand.
Nuts, produce of New Zealand, Cook Islands, or Niue.
Pigeons, live, in hampers or crates.
Plants, including tomato and vegetable and flower seedlings, also bulbs, not packed in soil.
Poultry, fresh, frozen, or chilled.
Rabbits, fresh, frozen, or chilled.
Shrubs.
Vegetables, fresh, produce of New Zealand, Cook Islands, or Niue.

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

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

Canoes.
Crackers, Chinese.
Fuse.

15. In no case shall the charge for a canoe be less than as for 5 cwt. at the rate for ordinary goods not otherwise specified.

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

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

18. Charges on all letter parcels must be prepaid.

19. The charges on all parcel traffic consigned to calling-places on Lake Wakatipu, other than Kingston or Queenstown, must be prepaid.

15. Library Exchanges.

Books for exchange forwarded to and from subscribers to recognized circulating libraries from and to such libraries will be charged at one-quarter parcels rates (minimum charge per consignment, 2d.), and will be conveyed on the steamers under the provisions of Regulation 59 of the General Scale of Charges effective on the New Zealand Government Railways.

16. Newspapers and Stereotype Casts.

Newspapers, periodicals, stereotype casts, and type, as defined in Regulation 64 of the General Scale of Charges effective on the New Zealand Government Railways will be charged 4d. for each 28 lb. or part thereof for conveyance on the Lake Wakatipu steamers.

17. Dogs.

1. Dogs, including dogs secured in hampers, crates, or boxes, will be charged 1s. 3d. each.

2. Where the charge for a dog secured in a hamper, crate, or box, computed at goods rate, is greater than the foregoing rate, the goods rate will be charged.

18. Fresh Fruit and Fresh Vegetables.

1. The maximum charges for fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, mushrooms, and nuts, grown and packed in New Zealand (including Cook Islands or Niue), whether conveyed as excess luggage or as parcels, will be as follows for any distance by the Lake Wakatipu steamer service :—

Not exceeding 56 lb. .. .. .. .. s. d.
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Then as New Zealand fresh-grown fruit and vegetables.

2. When more packages than one consisting of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, mushrooms, and nuts are consigned from one consignor to one consignee at the same destination station such packages will be charged upon the total weight of each consignment.