17 MARCH
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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OHAI RAILWAY BOARD BY-LAW NO. 5

IN pursuance of the powers, provisions, and authorities contained in the Local Railways Act 1914 and all amendments thereof, and of all other enabling powers, provisions, and authorities contained in any other Act or otherwise vested in it, the Ohai Railway Board doth hereby by this special order make and ordain the following by-law

BY-LAW

1. This by-law may be cited or referred to as the Ohai Railway Board By-law No. 5, and shall be read together with the by-laws passed by the Board on the 11th day of July 1924.

2. The Ohai Railway Board’s By-law No. 4 passed on the 17th day of July 1940 is hereby repealed, excepting clause 2 thereof.

3. The Board fixes the rates of freight set out in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

Rates of Freight for the Carriage of Goods on the Ohai Railway Board’s Railway Between any Stations on the Board’s Railway

s. d.

1. Consignments which under the New Zealand Government Railways Scale of Charges are carried as parcels, each …… …… …… …… …… 0 6
   Fruit, per case …… …… …… …… …… 0 3
   Bicycles or motor bicycles, each …… …… …… 1 0
   Dogs, each …… …… …… …… …… 0 9
   Cattle or horses, per head …… …… …… 1 6
   Sheep, per head …… …… …… …… 0 3
   Timber, for every 100 sup. ft. or part of 100 sup. ft. 0 8
   Motor vehicles or tractors, each …… …… …… 6 0
   Wool, per bale …… …… …… …… 0 6
   Lime, per ton …… …… …… …… 0 6
   Other goods (except coal):
   Consignments not exceeding in all 2½ cwt., per consignment …… …… …… …… 0 9
   Consignments not exceeding 5 cwt. …… …… 1 0
   Consignments over 5 cwt., per ton: 3s. (with a minimum of 1s.)

Variation of Charges in Rates of Freight Other Than for Brown Coal

2. If there shall at any time after the making of this by-law be a general increase or decrease in the rates of freight charged upon the New Zealand Government Railways, then the rates of freight hereinbefore prescribed shall be increased or decreased by a percentage equivalent to the percentage of the increase or decrease in such rates charged upon the New Zealand Government Railways. If any such increase or decrease upon the New Zealand Government Railways rates of freight shall be in respect of only specified goods, then the rates of freight charged by the Board shall for such specified goods be increased or decreased by a like percentage to the percentage increase or decrease charged upon the New Zealand Government Railways.

Rates of Freight for Brown Coal

3. New Zealand brown coal will be charged at the rates fixed or arranged by the Board from time to time, being not less than 2s. per ton nor more than 3s. 6d. per ton.

Weighing

4. When weights are supplied to any person requiring them, the charge will be 3d. per ton with a minimum charge of 6d.

General

5. (a) In computing rates and charges, fractions of less than ½d. in the result will be omitted: a ½d. or more in the result will be taken as 1d.
   (b) Weights of less than 1 cwt. will be taken as follows for the purpose of computing rates of freight at tonnage rates:
   Under ¼ cwt. as ¼ cwt.
   Over ¼ cwt. but not over ½ cwt., as ½ cwt.
   Over ½ cwt. but not over ¾ cwt., as ¾ cwt.
   Over ¾ cwt. but not over 1 cwt., as 1 cwt.

The Common Seal of the Ohai Railway Board was affixed to this by-law on the 23rd day of February 1955, in the presence of:

[LS.]

NOEL McGREGOR, Chairman.
A. McKENZIE, Member.
R. G. STARK, Clerk.

The foregoing by-law was duly made by special order passed at a meeting of the Ohai Railway Board held on the 26th day of January 1955 and confirmed at a meeting of the said Board held this day, which last-mentioned meeting, Friday, the 1st day of April 1955, was fixed as the day at which the said by-law should come into force.

NOEL McGREGOR, Chairman.
R. G. STARK, Manager and Clerk.

Note: This by-law was advertised in the New Zealand Gazette of the 10th day of March 1955, at page 381. In error the 23rd day of February 1955 was inserted as the date of the meeting at which the by-law was passed. The date of the meeting at which the by-law was passed was the 26th day of January 1955 and the date of the confirming meeting was the 23rd day of February 1955.
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