New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 24

Page 987

✨ Railway Luggage Regulations

APRIL 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 987

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.—continued.

Wharfage is charged on inter-Island luggage as follows :—

Picton—
Bona fide personal luggage (exclusive of workmen’s tools or samples) up to 1 cwt., free.
Excess luggage (including workmen’s tools and samples) computed on weight, 2d. per cwt. or fraction thereof. Minimum charge, 4d.
Bicycles, 4d. each.
Bicycles, motor, 1s. 2d. each.
Bicycles, motor, with side-car, 3s. 4d. each.
Sewing-machines, 4d. each.

Wellington Harbour Board—
Bona fide personal luggage (exclusive of workmen’s tools or samples) up to 1 cwt., free.
Excess luggage (including workmen’s tools and samples) computed on weight, 1d. per cwt. or fraction thereof. Minimum charge, 3d.
Bicycles, each, inwards, 6d. ; outwards, 3d.
Bicycles, motor, each, inwards, 1s. 3d. ; outwards, 1s.
Bicycles, motor, with side-car, each, inwards, 3s. 9d. ; outwards, 3s.
Sewing-machines, each, inwards, 7d. ; outwards, 3d.

Lyttelton Harbour Board—
Bona fide personal luggage (exclusive of workmen’s tools or samples) up to 5 cwt., free.
Excess luggage (including workmen’s tools) computed on weight, 1s. 9d. per ton. Minimum charge, 3d.
Commercial travellers’ samples, 1s. 4d. per ton. Minimum charge, 4d.
Bicycles, 3d. each.
Bicycles, motor, 6d. each.
Bicycles, motor, with side-car, 1s. each.
Sewing-machines, 3d. each.

For the purposes of this and the last preceding paragraph “bona fide personal luggage” means ordinary bona fide articles of necessity and convenience carried as personal luggage for a passenger’s personal use or comfort or convenience in connection with a journey, and shall include tourists’, sportsmen’s, or artists’ gear (except furniture, kerosene, house fittings, live poultry, liquor, and bulky musical instruments, boxes of fruit, bags of vegetables, and the like), but shall not include any package exceeding 2 cwt. in weight.

In the case of a bona fide commercial traveller the term “bona fide personal luggage” shall include bona fide samples.

Commercial Travellers’ Luggage.
Commercial travellers will each be allowed to take with them free of charge 112 lb. weight of luggage, including personal luggage and bona fide samples properly packed (other than motor-bicycles) for exhibition only and not for sale.
Commercial travellers holding annual season tickets, issued under the provisions of Regulation 13, may obtain annual tickets for their bona fide samples for the lines over which their annual tickets are available at the following rates :—

—	Miles.	Per Cwt. or Part thereof up to 5 Cwt.	Each Additional Cwt. or Part thereof up to 10 Cwt.
For distances not exceeding	300	£ s. d. 3 13 8	£ s. d. 2 19 5
"	400	4 15 8	3 13 8
"	500	5 10 0	4 8 0
"	600	6 5 5	5 3 5
"	700	6 12 0	5 10 0
"	800	7 7 5	6 5 5
"	1,000	8 1 8	6 12 0
For distances over	1,000	8 9 5	7 7 5

In computing charges for annual luggage tickets mileage will be counted one way only.
The maximum quantity of bona fide samples and personal luggage which any commercial traveller will be allowed to carry at the rates specified in paragraph 2 or paragraph 6 of this regulation is 10 cwt. or 200 cubic feet, exclusive of the free allowance of 112 lb. as provided in paragraph 1 of this regulation. Any additional quantity, if sent by express, mail, or passenger train, will be charged at the rates provided in paragraph 13 of Regulation 46 for excess luggage, or it may be consigned as “goods” and conveyed by goods or mixed trains, at goods rates (Class C).
These rates apply to bona fide samples for exhibition only. If the samples or any portion thereof are sold or otherwise disposed of parcels rates will be charged.

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