APRIL 19.] 1059
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

GOODS—continued.

90. Lime for Manuring Farm Lands.

91. New Zealand lime for use in dressing land used bona fide as a farm,
    orchard, nursery, or market-garden within the Dominion of New Zealand con-
    signed from kilns direct to farmers, orchardists, nurserymen, market-gardeners,
    or educational institutions whose curricula require the carrying-on of farming
    for the purpose of instructing their students, may, at the option and convenience
    of the Department, be conveyed by rail for distances not exceeding 100 miles
    free of charge, provided—
    (a) That application for the concession is made by the proprietor of the
    lime-kiln to, and approved by, the General Manager at least seven days
    prior to the date on which it is desired to forward the first consign-
    ment of lime; the application, accompanied by a sample of the lime,
    specifying the name of the lime-kiln, the railway-stations from which
    the lime will be forwarded, and the net price to be charged to the
    farmers;
    (b) That the price charged to the farmers for the lime to be conveyed free
    under this regulation does not exceed the price approved by the
    Department;
    (c) That a certificate in the following form is endorsed on the consignment-
    note: “I hereby certify that the lime entered Mereon and consigned
    to
    is for use on land used bona fide as a
    , that
    the price charged to the consignee does not exceed the price approved
    by the Department, and that no undue preference has been given
    in fulfilling this order.”

92. The minimum loads for New Zealand lime which shall be accepted for
    carriage under the provisions of this regulation will be as follow:—

3. The Department reserves to itself the right to decline any application,
   and to withdraw approval in the event of an infringement of any of the foregoing
   regulations, and in particular may decline to extend the benefit of the regulation
   to any farmer, orchardist, nurseryman, or market-gardener who utilizes other
   means of transport than the railway for the carriage of other goods to or from
   his farm, orchard, nursery, or market-garden, as the case may be, when the
   railway is available for the transport of such goods.

4. Empty Cases for Carriage of Fruit, and Shooks for Manufacture of
   Fruit-cases.

5. Empty cases and crates containing empty punnets—not “returned
   empties,” but to be reconsigned over the railway full, and, when so reconsigned,
   to contain only New-Zealand-grown fresh fruit—consigned direct to fruitgrowers’
   agents or associations approved by the General Manager, and bona fide fruit-
   growers, will be charged at the rate for returned empties (paragraph 5,
   Regulation 88).

6. Shooks not exceeding 3 ft. in length, in bundles, consigned direct from
   mills to fruitgrowers’ agents or associations approved by the General Manager,
   and bona fide fruitgrowers, for manufacture of cases to be used solely for the
   carriage by rail of New-Zealand-grown fresh fruit, will be charged half rates
   Class C, or Class K, whichever is the cheaper.

7. Consignments under this regulation will be conveyed at owner’s risk.

8. Consignment-notes for empty cases, and shooks, carried under this regula-
   tion are to be endorsed by senders as follows:—
   I hereby certify that these cases [or shooks] are consigned direct to a*
   , and are to be used solely for packing New-Zealand-grown fresh fruit
   to be conveyed by rail.

9. All loading and unloading must be performed by the owners.

Insert fruitgrowers’ agent, fruitgrowers’ association, or bona fide* fruitgrower, as the
case may be.

92. Exhibits forwarded to and from Shows, Horses forwarded to and from
    Ploughing-matches.

93. Stock (other than freak animals for exhibition at side-shows), implements,
    dogs, poultry, birds, produce, &c. (but not including motor-bicycles, motor-cars,
    motor-lorries, or motor-buses), consigned for exhibition at agricultural, horti-
    cultural, dog, poultry, pigeon, and cage-bird shows, and egg-laying competitions;
    ploughs for use at prize ploughing matches; motor-tractors for use at plough-
    ing matches which have an event on their programmes for tractor ploughs; entire
    horses consigned for exhibition at horse parades; and sheep-dogs competing at
    dog trials—will be charged full tariff rates going to the show, competition,
    ploughing match, parade, or dog trial; freight charges must be prepaid.

94. All such goods (whether forming the whole or only a portion of the
    original consignment, and which have not broken the journey to compete at a
    show, competition, ploughing match, parade, or dog trial on either the outward
    or homeward journey) will, if returned unsold within one month from the closing
    of the show, competition, ploughing-match, parade, or dog trial, be conveyed
    back to the original consignor and to the original forwarding-station free, but
    at owner’s risk, provided a certificate in the following form is handed to the
    Department when the returned exhibits are consigned.

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