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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 26

PASSENGERS

REQUISITION FOR REPORTER’S SEASON TICKET

(c) To Stationmaster, . . . . . . . .
Please issue to a reporter of the . . . . . . . . newspaper a reporter’s . . . . . . . .-class season ticket, available between . . . . . . . . and . . . . . . . .

I hereby certify that such ticket will be used only by a reporter engaged on press work when travelling for the purpose of reporting to the newspaper as provided in the Railway regulations regarding such tickets.

Date : . . . . . . . .

Signature of Proprietor, Editor, or other duly authorized person : . . . . . . . .

Insert “monthly,” “quarterly,” “half-yearly,” or “yearly,” as the case may be, and class of ticket required.

10. Newspaper-proprietors must furnish the Department with a list giving names and signatures of the persons on the staff of their respective papers who are authorized to sign certificates (b) or (c) of paragraph 9 of this regulation. Certificates signed by persons other than those so notified to the Department will not be recognized. The Department reserves the right to decline any application.

11. “Newspaper,” for the purposes of this regulation, means a news-sheet in which the principal matter published is news of general public interest and of which the primary purpose is the publication of such news. The Department reserves to itself the right to decide whether any publication is a newspaper within the meaning of this regulation.

12. Railway Employees’ Privilege Tickets

1. Privilege Single or Return Tickets.—Privilege tickets at one-fourth the ordinary fares (Regulation 2), suburban fares (Regulation 32) or local fares (Regulation 34, paragraphs 2 and 7, or Regulation 35, paragraphs 4 and 5), where applicable, may be issued to railway employees and their wives and children in terms of the regulations made in that behalf under the Government Railways Act, 1949. Children 4 years of age and over will be charged the adult privilege fare.

For the purpose of this regulation an ordinary return fare will be deemed to be the value of two single fares (Regulation 2).

2. The Minimum Charge for privilege tickets other than ‘privilege season tickets will be 1s. 2d. first class, 9d. second class, single or return.

3. Privilege Season Tickets, available for one month, at one-fourth of the fares for monthly season tickets (Regulation 14), subject to minimum charges of 7s. 4d. first class, 5s. second class, or for three, six, or twelve months at three, six, or twelve times, as the case may be, the fares or minimum charges for monthly season tickets, may be issued to railway employees as provided by the regulations made in that behalf under the Government Railways Act, 1949.

4. Privilege Ticket Orders.—Privilege tickets will be issued only on presentation of the prescribed orders.

5. Change of Route.—Passengers holding privilege tickets who desire to travel by an alternative route will be charged at privilege-ticket rates for the additional mileage, if any, involved.

Passengers holding privilege tickets for a longer route may be permitted to travel by a shorter alternative route.

13. Season Tickets

1. Conditions.—(a) Season tickets are issued and must be used subject to and in conformity with the by-laws, rules, regulations, and arrangements from time to time in force on every railway or steamboat over or on which the said tickets are available, including alterations in the number and times fixed for the starting or arrival of trains or steamboats. The Department is not to be liable under any circumstances for any consequences arising from such alterations, or for want of accommodation in any train or steamboat, or for any detention or delay in the starting or arrival of trains or steamboats.

(b) The Department is not under any circumstances whatsoever to be held liable for the discontinuance, whether permanent or otherwise, of the running of any trains or steamboats, or for any consequences arising from such discontinuance.

(c) Season tickets are available only at and between the stations named thereon, including (unless otherwise stated) intermediate stations.

(d) A season ticket is, unless otherwise provided, not transferable, and if irregularly transferred will, without prejudice to any other penalty for such transference, be forfeited.

(e) A season ticket is issued on the express condition that it is not available for any journey unless it is produced and delivered up on demand to any officer or servant of the Department; and if such ticket is not so produced and/or delivered up the holder thereof shall be deemed not to have paid the fare for that particular journey, and such fare shall be recoverable by the Department from such holder.