New Zealand Gazette – 1952 – No. 26

Page 543

✨ Railway Regulations for Dogs



APRIL 9] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 543

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

(b) Dogs in hampers, crates, or boxes—
Pups, one or more .. Parcels rates plus 25%.
Slut and puppies .. Parcels rates plus 25%, with a minimum charge as for one dog (tethered).
Dogs .. * Parcels rates, or each dog at the rate for tethered dogs (whichever is greater).

  • The terminal charge at the stations specified in Regulation 55, paragraph 2, will be additional to the charges computed either at the rate for dogs or at parcels rates.
  1. Delivery.—Passengers or consignees must take delivery of dogs immediately on the arrival of the train at the destination station, failing which the dogs will be held by the Department at the sole risk and responsibility of the owner. A charge of 6d. per day or portion of a day will be made for each animal which is not taken delivery of immediately on arrival at the destination station. In addition to this charge owners will require to pay any charge that may have been incurred for food, veterinary charges, and the like.

General Conditions.—3. Dogs must bear a label showing distinctly the name and full address of the consignee and the destination station, and, except when accompanying passengers, must be delivered to the Department and consigned not less than thirty minutes before the due time of departure of the train by which they are to be forwarded.

  1. The Department reserves the right to require that any dog presented for carriage by rail shall be efficiently muzzled or confined in a cage, box, or other suitable receptacle so as to prevent such dog from biting any person. The Department will not be liable for the loss of any dog if such loss arises directly or indirectly from any tendency on the part of such dog to bite any person.

  2. Dogs not secured in hampers, crates, or boxes must be provided with efficient chains and collars, or other suitable means of tether. Dogs in hampers, crates, or boxes must be properly secured so as to prevent damage to other goods.

  3. Passengers accompanied by dogs must obtain a dog ticket at least fifteen minutes before the due time of departure of the train, excepting when the journey is commenced from a station at which there are no booking facilities, when the passenger will obtain a dog ticket from the guard of the train. The ticket must be given up at the end of the journey before the dog is delivered. Owners must see their dogs safely placed in the train.

  4. Dogs accompanying passengers on inter-Island journeys will require to be consigned through the Parcels Branch.

  5. Dogs will be transported by express or passenger trains only when there is sufficient space or facilities in the guard’s van for their accommodation.

  6. The Department will not be liable for loss when a dog, whether accompanied by a passenger or consigned, escapes through the slipping of the collar or the breakage of the chain, collar, or such other means of tether by which it is secured unless the dog is carried at railway risk as provided in Regulation 110.

  7. Dogs will not be allowed in carriages.



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Railway Rates, Dogs, Freight Charges, Luggage, Parcels