New Zealand Gazette – 1952 – No. 26

Page 525

✨ Luggage and Parcel Regulations



APRIL 9] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 525

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

(b) A passenger may, if he so elects and stipulates, forward his luggage as ordinary parcels or goods traffic.

(c) Bicycles, Motor-cycles, and Sewing-machines checked inter-Island (including via Nelson) by airways passengers will be charged in accordance with the “General Instructions for Through Booking.”

LUGGAGE OF PASSENGERS TRAVELLING BY ROAD OR BY RAIL AND ROAD

  1. (a) Passengers travelling by motor may, on production of rail and/or railway road service tickets (as applicable), have their luggage checked and conveyed by rail as under:—
Passenger Travels By Charges.
Rail and railway road service or exclusively by railway road service (also see paragraph 1 (c) and (d) of this regulation) Subject to the provisions of Regulation 46, paragraph 7, luggage will be checked by rail from the original starting station to the final destination station on payment of the prescribed checking fee. (The term “station” will be deemed to mean the nearest railway-station to the point at which a passenger may join or alight from the road vehicle at the commencement or completion of his journey.)
Rail and motor transport not controlled by the Railway Department Luggage may be checked from the original starting station to the final destination station on payment of checking fees, plus excess luggage charges (if any) for the total distance travelled by rail, and freight charges at parcels rates, based on the total quantity of luggage, for any distance in excess of that covered by the rail ticket held. The terminal charge provided for in Regulation 55, paragraph 2, will not apply, and luggage will not be delivered by the Department.
Exclusively by motor transport not controlled by the Railway Department Luggage will not be accepted for checking, but may be consigned as parcels or goods traffic at the option of the owner.

(b) Passengers travelling by railway road services may forward bicycles and motor-cycles by rail, at the charges applicable to such articles accompanying rail passengers.

  1. Excess Luggage

  2. The Department reserves the right to charge light bulky packages of passengers’ luggage by weight or measurement.

  3. Luggage (checked or unchecked) on which excess charges are payable must be delivered at the railway-station at least thirty minutes before the due time of departure of the train by which it is to be forwarded.

  4. All charges payable on excess luggage must be prepaid, and the person delivering such luggage must obtain an excess-luggage ticket as a receipt for the charges paid, such ticket to be given up when the luggage is claimed. Passengers who fail to produce excess tickets for luggage on which excess charges are payable may be required to pay such charges before the luggage is delivered.

  5. In the case of luggage on which excess charges are payable forwarded from a station where no provision is made for the excessing of such luggage, the excess charges must be paid to the guard, who will issue a ticket for the amount received.

  6. An excess-luggage ticket is only a receipt for charges paid. The Department does not accept any responsibility for excess luggage unless it is checked as prescribed by Regulation 45. (See Regulation 44, paragraph 4, re storage of unchecked luggage.)

  7. Free Allowance.—Subject to the succeeding provisions of this regulation, “luggage” for the purpose of this paragraph means wearing-apparel and other similar personal belongings designed and usually carried by travellers for their personal use, and contained in a bag, box, portmanteau, suit-case, trunk, valise, or any other receptacle commonly used for the purpose, but shall not include merchandise or other goods or chattels which, though carried with the passenger’s luggage, are not designed and carried for such use.



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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🚂 Checked Luggage Regulations (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
Checked Luggage, Fees, Railway, Inter-Island, Overseas Vessels, Bicycles, Motor-cycles, Sewing-machines, General Instructions for Through Booking

🚂 Luggage of Passengers Travelling by Road or by Rail and Road

🚂 Transport & Communications
Luggage, Charges, Rail, Railway Road Service, Motor Transport, Bicycles, Motor-cycles

🚂 Excess Luggage Regulations

🚂 Transport & Communications
Excess Luggage, Charges, Delivery, Excess-luggage Ticket, Free Allowance