APRIL 9] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 523

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

3. In this regulation, unless inconsistent with the context or otherwise provided,—
   " Shipping company " or " road motor service " means and includes any person, firm, or
   company with which or with whom the Department may, for the time being, have an agree-
   ment or arrangement for the checking of luggage for conveyance by rail or by any service
   of such person, firm, or company ;
   " Luggage " includes luggage as defined in paragraph 6 of Regulation 46, and any package
   or article that may lawfully be checked as luggage.

4. Each package must, when presented for checking, be in good order and be distinctly addressed
   with the name of the passenger and the place to which he is proceeding. All old labels must first have
   been removed, each package locked or otherwise properly secured, and the person delivering it must
   obtain a check for each package delivered. The Department reserves the right to decline to check
   any package of luggage that is not fully and legibly addressed, locked, or properly secured, and from
   which old labels have not been removed, or which is not in good order. Trunks, suit-cases, bags, and
   other luggage containers must be such as, in the opinion of the Department, will enable the packages
   to withstand the ordinary incidence of transport without sustaining damage. The Department reserves
   the right to decline to accept for transport as luggage any package which does not meet this requirement.

5. Luggage to be checked may, if being forwarded from an officered station, or a flag station where
   facilities for the checking of luggage are provided, be delivered at the station from which the passenger
   will travel not more than one month before the date on which the passenger will travel, and (without
   prejudice to the provisions regarding excess luggage) must be delivered at such station at least fifteen
   minutes before the due time of departure of the train by which it is to be conveyed.

6. Luggage from stations at which there are no facilities provided for the checking of luggage
   and which the owners desire to check must be taken to the guard's van, and be there handed to the
   guard of the train.

7. The person delivering luggage to be checked must, on the same being checked, obtain a check
   for each package so delivered. The checks so obtained must be surrendered at the time of delivery
   of the luggage by the person who takes delivery of the luggage at destination station. Delivery by the
   Department of any checked luggage on the surrender of the appropriate checks to the person surren-
   dering such checks and acceptance of such delivery by such person shall discharge the Department
   of any liability in respect of such luggage.

8. Except as hereinafter provided, no package of checked luggage will be delivered until the
   check has been surrendered. The Department will not be responsible for any loss or inconvenience
   that may arise through the failure of the passenger or his agent to produce the necessary check. The
   Department reserves the right to decline to deliver checked luggage at any station other than the original
   destination station of such luggage.

9. Passengers are not bound to see personally to the checking of their luggage, or to attend in
   person to obtain delivery of their luggage, but may arrange for any person, other than a railway
   employee, to act on their behalf ; the Department, however, will require the production of the pas-
   senger's railway, steamer, and/or motor ticket, and decline to accept any luggage for transit until
   such demand has been complied with.

10. Lost Checks.—Any person claiming delivery to him of any checked luggage, who may be unable
    to produce the check therefor owing to having lost such check, may be required to make, at his own cost,
    a statutory declaration setting forth the number of the luggage-check lost, the number and description
    of such package of which delivery is claimed, and such other information as the Department may require.
    He may be required to indemnify the Department against any loss or claim that may arise as a result
    of delivery to such person, and to furnish such other proofs of his title to delivery of such luggage as
    the Department may require, before such luggage shall be delivered. Should the information furnished
    by the claimant or proofs of title to delivery or the indemnity be deemed by the Department to be
    insufficient or unsatisfactory, delivery of the luggage may be withheld, and the Department shall not
    be liable for any inconvenience or loss that may result from delivery being so withheld. A search fee
    of 1s. will be made in respect of each luggage-check lost.

11. Unclaimed Luggage.—Checked luggage not claimed within three months after the arrival
    at destination may be sold.

12. Storage.—Checked luggage for attended stations not claimed on arrival at such stations
    will be stored. Checked luggage for unattended stations not claimed while the train is standing at such
    station will be taken to the next attended station for storage. Checked luggage not delivered within
    the periods indicated hereunder will be charged storage as follows :—