626
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 26

GOODS.

4. Where the Department’s tarpaulins are supplied for motor-vehicles, charges as per Regulation 98 will apply.

5. If consignors supply their own covers, the covers will be conveyed free of charge on the outward journey, also when being returned from the original destination station to the original forwarding station.

Except as provided in paragraph 6 hereof, if covering is performed by the Department, a labour charge of 3s. per tarpaulin will be made, whether loading is performed by the owner or the Department.

6. When cranage, labour, and supervision charges, vide Regulation 100, are applied on a motor-vehicle exceeding 30 cwt., the charge for labour will include the cost of covering the vehicle when such service is performed by the Department.

Conditions.—7. Motor-vehicles charged with petrol or other motor-spirit will be accepted for conveyance by rail only if the petrol connections are tight and the petrol is cut off between the supply-tank and the carburettor. Motor-vehicles which are not fitted with pumps or “cut-off” cocks between the tank and the carburettor will not be accepted for conveyance unless all motor-spirit has been removed from the tank.

8. The Department reserves the right to decline to convey any motor-vehicle unless all the petrol is removed therefrom.

9. Liability.—(a) Motor-vehicles conveyed under the provisions of this regulation are carried at owner’s risk, and the provisions of Regulation 110 shall apply thereto and to any equipment recognized as the ordinary equipment of a motor-vehicle, including such articles as spare parts, wheels, tires, tools, and cushions, attached to or contained in a motor-vehicle received for carriage. When request is made for carriage at railway risk, particulars of such equipment must be set out on the consignment-note, and such equipment and other readily detachable accessories must be locked in the vehicle or packed in a separate package.

(b) The detachable parts and equipment of a motor-vehicle, when packed in a separate package, will be carried free of charge in a separate wagon.

84. Two-wheeled Carriages, Carts, Drays, and Wagons

85. Vehicles which can be loaded in a four-wheeled wagon will be charged at the following rate per vehicle:—

For Any Distance For Every Mile
Not Exceeding After the First
10 Miles. 10 Miles.
£ s. d. d.

Two-wheeled carriages .. .. .. .. .. }1 10 0 10
Carts, drays, and horse-wagons not exceeding 1 ton per vehicle,
either set up or in pieces .. .. .. ..
Carts, drays, and wagons exceeding 1 ton in weight will be charged rate and a half.

2. When two or more vehicles, either set up or in pieces, consigned from one consignor to one consignee, are loaded together in one four-wheeled wagon, they will be charged full rates for the first vehicle and half rates for each additional vehicle. The highest rated vehicle will, for the purpose of this paragraph, be treated as the first vehicle.

3. A bogie wagon will, for the purpose of charging, be treated as two four-wheeled wagons.

4. Fresh Fruit, Fresh Vegetables, Fresh Mushrooms, and Nuts

5. Fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, fresh mushrooms and nuts grown and packed in New Zealand (including the Cook Islands or Niue) in consignments not exceeding 3 cwt. in weight will be charged as follows:—