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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 26

PASSENGERS

2. Availability.—Except as may be otherwise specially provided, tickets at ordinary fares (Regulation 2) will be available as follows :—
   (a) Single tickets for journeys not exceeding 20 miles—for one day only, being the date shown on the ticket, except that such tickets issued between two stations on separate sections of railway and which necessitate a sea journey, will be available for three calendar months.
   (b) Single tickets for journeys exceeding 20 miles—for three calendar months.
   (c) Return tickets—for three calendar months.
   (d) The journey may be commenced on the date shown on the ticket or at any time within the period of the availability of the ticket, and must be completed before the expiry of such period.
   (e) In each case under subparagraphs (b) and (c) hereof the period of availability shall begin on the day immediately following the date shown on the ticket.
   For Example : A ticket available for three months issued on the 15th day of a month will be available up to and including the 15th day of the third succeeding month. A ticket issued on the last day of any month will be available up to and including the last day of the third succeeding month.

3. Break of Journey.—Except in cases where break of journey is necessitated by the train service, single or return tickets for distances of 10 miles and under will not be available for break of journey. Passengers holding such tickets for distances over 10 miles may break the journey at any station at which the train is timed to stop, after travelling 10 miles from the original starting-station : Provided that in the case of intersection bookings which necessitate a sea journey between the North and South Islands, the rail journey may, after the completion of the sea journey, be broken at Christchurch, and/or Wellington.

4. Family Excursion Tickets

5. Fares.—Second-class family return tickets at three times the ordinary return fare (Regulation 2) may be issued to parents and their children travelling together. Minimum charge as for 20 miles.

6. Conditions.—The children must be under sixteen years of age, and be accompanied by at least one of their parents. The number of children in any family who may travel on one ticket is unlimited. The names of the parents or parent and children must be declared at the time of booking, and only the persons whose names are so declared may travel on the ticket.

7. Availability.—These tickets will be available for the period specified for ordinary return tickets and must be obtained not less than fifteen minutes before the due time of departure of the train by which they are to be used.

8. Trip Bearer Tickets

9. Trip bearer tickets, first or second class, will be issued at the charge for six return fares (Regulation 2), suburban (Regulation 32), or local (Regulation 34, paragraphs 2 and 7; and Regulation 35, paragraphs 4 and 6; as the case may be), less 10 per cent., and will be available for twelve single journeys.

10. Availability.—Trip bearer tickets will be transferable, and will be available for six weeks including date of issue; they will not be issued for distances exceeding 25 miles, and will not be available for break of journey.

11. Children.—One or two children 4 years of age and under 15 years of age travelling on these tickets will count as one adult; three or four such children will count as two adults, and so on, each additional one or two children counting as one adult. The age limit will be the same in each case.

12. Change of Class.—Passengers holding second-class trip bearer tickets and who desire to travel first class will be charged the difference between the first and second class single fare ordinary (Regulation 2), suburban (Regulation 32), or local (Regulations 34 and 35), as the case may be.

13. Conditions.—(a) Where two or more passengers are travelling on a trip bearer ticket such passengers will require to occupy seats in the same compartment or carriage or in such other accommodation as may be allocated to them by the Department.
    (b) Trip bearer tickets will only be sold for the use of persons residing in the neighbourhood of one of the terminal stations shown on the ticket.

14. Weekly Twelve-trip Tickets

15. Fares.—Weekly twelve-trip tickets will be issued for distances not exceeding 27 miles and charged as follows :—