APRIL 9] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 521

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

43. General Conditions re Passengers' Luggage

1. Passengers' luggage received, held, or conveyed by railway will be subject to the conditions
   hereinafter set forth:—
   Luggage shall be designated as follows—
   (a) Unchecked luggage—i.e., packages of every description, whether excessed or otherwise, which
   are conveyed as passengers' luggage and which are not checked as hereinafter provided.
   (b) Checked luggage—i.e., packages of every description, whether excessed or otherwise, which
   are conveyed as passengers' luggage, for which the passenger holds a luggage-check as
   hereinafter provided.
2. Railway employees are not permitted to act as agents, or to undertake the charge of or accept
   responsibility in respect to luggage left temporarily at a station, unless the luggage has been booked
   and placed in the luggage-room.
3. The Department does not undertake to forward luggage of any description by any particular
   train, and will not be responsible for any luggage or parcels left about the station premises and not
   duly delivered to the custody of the Department. Luggage left at a station should be placed in the
   luggage-room.
4. No luggage will be allowed to be taken into the carriages unless it can be placed under the seat
   or in the rack of the carriage without inconvenience to other passengers; neither shall any person
   take into or carry in a railway-carriage any luggage which any officer of the Department may deem
   to be inconvenient or objectionable.
5. No person shall be entitled to send any luggage to any railway-station beyond the station of
   destination for which his ticket is available; nor, except as may be otherwise provided, shall any person
   send or carry as luggage any packages containing goods that are for sale or are other than his own
   bona fide property. No luggage will be accepted for transit inter-Island unless checked under the
   provisions of Regulation 45.
6. The Department reserves to itself the right to refuse any articles which, from their bulky or
   objectionable character, it is inexpedient to carry as passengers' luggage. Packages exceeding 2 cwt.
   in weight or 20 cubic feet in measurement will not be accepted for conveyance as passengers' luggage;
   such packages must be consigned, and will be conveyed and charged for at parcels or goods rates as
   may be appropriate.
7. Luggage is accepted for carriage or storage only upon the express condition that the luggage
   is warranted to be fit to be carried or stored in the condition in which it is handed to the Department,
   and not to be of a dangerous character or liable to damage other goods. Passengers shall make good all
   damage to railway property or other goods arising from luggage unfit for carriage or storage being
   handed to the Department.
8. Tins of honey, whether packed or not, shall be deemed to be unfit for carriage or storage as
   luggage unless the lids of the tins are secured with three or more spots of solder. Tins containing
   raspberries, loganberries, boysenberries, strawberries, black currants, red currants, and other similar
   soft fruits shall in all cases be deemed to be unfit for carriage or storage as luggage if packed in suit-cases
   or in other packages which are not so constructed as to clearly show the contents and the correct side up.
   For insurance of luggage—see Regulation 110.

44. Unchecked Luggage

1. Unchecked luggage will be carried solely at the risk of the owner.
2. Luggage to be forwarded from an attended station and not required to be checked must be
   delivered at the railway-station from which the passenger is proceeding at least ten minutes before the
   due time of departure of the train by which it is to be conveyed.
3. Luggage to be forwarded from an unattended station must be taken to the guard's van, and
   be there handed to the guard on the train by which it is to be forwarded, immediately on arrival of the
   train at the station from which the luggage is to be conveyed.
4. Unchecked luggage (not excess) not claimed immediately on arrival at destination station will
   be treated as lost luggage, and charged for as provided in Regulation 49. Unchecked excess luggage
   will be granted free storage on day of arrival and seven consecutive days thereafter, after which period
   it will be treated as lost luggage.
5. Owners of unchecked luggage for an unattended station must in all cases present themselves
   at the guard's van while the train is standing at the station, and claim and take delivery of their
   luggage, failing which the luggage shall be treated as "lost luggage" and be taken to the next officered
   station and there stored at the risk and expense of the owner.
6. Unchecked luggage will not be delivered at any station short of the destination to which it is
   addressed and labelled. Passengers who desire to break the journey en route must have their luggage
   addressed and labelled to the station at which they intend to first take delivery.