✨ Railway Luggage Regulations




APRIL 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 993

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.--continued.

  1. Parcels or packages containing or consisting of the following articles will be charged rate and a quarter :-
    Artificial flowers.
    Basketware.
    Basket-chairs.
    Bath-chairs.
    Bicycles, pedal, set up (not packed in cases or crates) to seat one rider.
    Bicycles, pedal, packed in cases or crates.
    Bird-cages.
    Birds in cages. Owner's risk.
    Cardboard or strawboard boxes (empty (not collapsed) or containing millinery, feathers, or other goods liable to damage by crushing).
    Coffins.
    Cycle-trailers.
    Dress-stands.
    Fresh-cut flowers, foliage, or ferns, unless packed in non-crushable containers. Owner's risk.
    Glass wreaths. Owner's risk.
    Glassware, chinaware, or crockery (except druggists' bottles) not packed in cases. Owner's risk.
    Gramaphones, including portable gramaphones, not packed in cases or crates.
    Hand-carts.

Liquids in glass or earthenware containers not securely packed in cases or tins or protected by wickerware. Owner's risk.
Mattresses, wire.
Mattresses, bolsters, pillows, or other manufactured packages containing kapok, flock, wool, tow, horsehair, or similar materials.
Mirrors or looking-glasses, not packed in cases or crates. Owner's risk.
Musical instruments not packed in cases or in their own rigid containers.
Perambulators and go-carts.
Pictures not packed in cases or crates.
Picture-frames and mouldings.
Rocking-horses.
Side-cars for motor-bicycles.
Stags' heads, mounted or unmounted.
Stretchers, wire.
Stuffed birds and animals.
Toys.
Tricycles, tricycle-wheels, or frames.
Typewriters, not packed in wooden cases.
Wickerware.
Wireless sets and parts not securely packed in crates, cases, or strong cardboard cartons with corrugated cardboard lining.
Wreaths and other similar articles made up of cut flowers or plants. Owner's risk.

  1. When more parcels than one are consigned by one consignor to one consignee as one consignment they will be charged for separately, except as specified in paragraph 13 of this regulation.

  2. When more parcels than one consisting of any of the undermentioned commodities are consigned in one consignment from one consignor to one consignee at the same destination station such parcels will be charged upon the total weight of each commodity :-
    Bread.
    Butter.
    Cake.
    Cheese.
    Eggs.
    Eskimo pie.
    Fish, fresh, salted, smoked, 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, and meat sundries, cooked, fresh, salted, frozen or, chilled.
    Milk, in bottles, packed.
    Mushrooms, produce of New Zealand.
    Nuts, produce of New Zealand, Cook Islands, or Niue.
    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.
    The charge of 6d. for each hundredweight or part of a hundredweight as provided in paragraph 3 of this regulation will be computed on the total weight of each commodity carried under the provisions of this paragraph.
    No consignment exceeding 2 cwt. in weight or 20 cubic feet in measurement will be accepted under the provisions of this paragraph.

  3. Bicycles, pedal, set up, fitted with parcels delivery carriers, unpacked, will be charged one and a quarter of the rates specified in paragraph 1 of this regulation, computed on actual weight.

  4. Bicycles, pedal, not otherwise specified, set up (not packed in cases or crates) to seat one rider, each machine will be charged as 28 lb. at rate and a quarter of the rates specified in paragraph 1 of this regulation.

  5. Bicycles, pedal, not packed in cases or crates, to seat more than one rider, will be charged one and a half times the rates specified in paragraph 1 of this regulation, computed on the actual weight of the machine.

  6. Bicycles, pedal, packed in cases or crates will be charged at rate and a quarter of the rates specified in paragraph 1 of this regulation, computed on actual weight.

  7. Bicycle delivery-vans, pedal, will be charged at the following rates:- Not exceeding 1 cwt., double the rates specified in paragraph 1 of this regulation.
    Exceeding 1 cwt., half the rate for a two-wheeled carriage (Regulation 83).

  8. Bicycles, motor, or bicycles with motor propelling attachment, packed or unpacked, to seat one rider, will be charged one and a half times the rates specified in paragraph 1 of this regulation, computed on the actual weight in each case. The charges for the weight in excess of 2 cwt. will in all respects be treated as a separate consignment. Motor-bicycles will not be delivered by the Department, and will not be subject to the charge provided for in paragraph 3.



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