New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 24

Page 967

✨ Railway Passenger Regulations

APRIL 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 967

PASSENGERS—continued.

School Season Tickets, &c.
Scholars and students holding school season tickets, free school season tickets, or technical school tickets, will when carriages are set apart for their use, require to travel in such carriages.
Picnic Parties.
Excursion tickets, available for one (specified) day in each case, will be issued to picnic parties, numbering not less than twenty persons, travelling together for recreation and not for business purposes, and organized by any friendly society, school committee, trade or industrial union, business house, or other body approved by the Department.
Stop-over excursion tickets (available for return within seven days from and including the commencing date shown on the ticket in each case) will be issued to school pleasure parties numbering not less than twenty persons in all and school athletic teams of such numbers as may be approved by the Department, bona fide scholars or scholars and teachers, in each case, travelling together.
Provided the other provisions of paragraph 1 of this regulation are complied with, school athletic teams comprising bona fide scholars or scholars and teachers of such numbers as may be approved by the Department which travel on the outward and homeward journey on the same day, and parties of school-children travelling for the purpose of holding picnics, may be issued with tickets at the day excursion fares. In cases where the tickets are required for an availability in excess of one day the provisions of paragraph 2 of this regulation will be applicable.
The charges will be as follow :—

SECOND CLASS.

Miles.	Available for Day of Issue only.			Stop-over Excursion Tickets.
	Schools, Factories, Friendly Societies. Children not exceeding 15 Years of Age.	Schools only. Senior Scholars over 15 but not exceeding 19 Years of Age attending School.	Schools only : Pupils exceeding 19 Years of Age, Teachers and Adults. Factories, Friendly Societies only : Children exceeding 15 Years of Age and Adults.	Scholars attending Schools, and School-teachers, only.
	s. d.	s. d.	s. d.	s. d.
1 to 4	0 4	0 6	0 7	0 7
5 ,, 8	0 6	0 9	0 11	0 11
9 ,, 12	0 8	1 0	1 5	1 5
13 ,, 16	0 10	1 2	1 8	1 8
17 ,, 20	0 11	1 3	1 10	1 10
21 ,, 25	1 1	1 6	2 0	2 0
26 ,, 30	1 3	1 8	2 6	2 6
31 ,, 35	1 6	1 11	2 9	2 9
36 ,, 40	1 8	2 2	3 0	3 0
41 ,, 45	1 11	2 5	3 4	3 4
46 ,, 50	2 1	2 7	3 7	3 7
51 ,, 55	2 2	2 9	3 10	3 10
56 ,, 60	2 5	3 0	4 2	4 2
61 ,, 65	2 7	3 4	4 5	4 5
66 ,, 70	2 9	3 8	4 8	4 8
71 ,, 75	2 11	4 0	4 11	4 11
76 ,, 80	3 1	4 3	5 3	5 3
81 ,, 85	3 4	4 8	5 9	5 9
86 ,, 90	3 7	4 11	6 1	6 1
91 ,, 95	3 10	5 4	6 7	6 7
96 ,, 100	4 2	5 6	7 2	7 2
For every additional 5 miles or fraction thereof	0 2½	0 3¼	0 4¾	0 4¾

First-class fares will be double the above rates in each case.
Tickets at above rates will be issued only at the option of the Department.
The Department does not undertake to carry parties at the above rates by mail or express trains or on public holidays or on Sundays.
School excursion parties will be conveyed conditionally on the Committee arranging the excursion undertaking to place at least two adults, either teachers or other persons, in charge of each carriage to maintain order and prevent children from riding on the carriage-platforms.
The Committee must undertake the sale of all tickets and all responsibility for the value of same, and give a written undertaking to conform to these regulations.
Unsold tickets must be returned to the Department before the excursion train starts on its outward journey, or at the destination station before the commencement of the homeward journey, otherwise the Committee will be debited with the full value thereof, and no rebate will be made on account of tickets afterwards tendered as unsold.
Application should first be made to the District Manager, not less than seven days’ notice being given in the case of small parties, and not less than ten days’ notice in the case of large excursions.

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