LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

3. Tendering Luggage for Checking—Luggage may, if being forwarded from an officered station, or a flag station where facilities for the checking of luggage are provided, be delivered for checking at any time during the availability of the tickets held. Luggage for checking must (without prejudice to the provisions regarding excess luggage) be delivered at least fifteen minutes before the due time of departure of the train by which it is to be conveyed. The person tendering luggage to be checked must obtain a luggage check for each package. Passengers are not bound to see personally to the checking of their luggage but may arrange for any person, other than a railway employee, to act on their behalf. The passenger’s railway and/or steamer or motor ticket must be produced before luggage will be accepted for checking.

4. Delivery of Checked Luggage—Except as hereinafter provided, no package of checked luggage will be delivered until the check has been surrendered. Delivery by the Department of any checked luggage to the person surrendering checks and acceptance of delivery by such person shall discharge the Department of any liability in respect of the luggage. The Department reserves the right to decline to deliver checked luggage at any station other than the original destination station of such luggage.

5. Lost Checks—Any person claiming delivery of any checked luggage, and who is unable to produce the check therefor owing to it having been lost, may be required to make, at his own cost, a statutory declaration setting forth the number of the luggage-check lost, the description of such package, 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 him, and to furnish such other proofs of his title to delivery of the luggage as the Department may require, before it 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.

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

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

INTER-ISLAND LUGGAGE ACCOMPANYING PASSENGERS TRAVELLING BY RAIL AND STEAMER

8. Only passenger’s bona fide personal luggage will be accepted for checking to Stewart Island. Cases of fruit, stores, live animals, cardboard boxes, and suchlike articles will not be accepted.

9. The following provisions of this paragraph apply to luggage which required to be transported by the steamer services between Wellington and Lyttelton or Wellington and Picton:

   (a) Checked luggage may comprise ordinary luggage, including perambulators or push chairs and children’s tricycles accompanying passengers, subject to the provisions of paragraph 7 of regulation 43.

   (b) Bicycles (Pedal or Motor), Sewing Machines, also Fruit or Other Merchandise Packed in Suitable Containers, accompanying passengers, may be checked subject to payment of the charges provided in paragraph 13 of regulation 46. A motor cycle with sidecar attached will not be accepted for checking.

   (c) Cardboard Boxes and Fragile Packages will not be accepted for checking.

   (d) Live Animals and Poultry will not be accepted for checking.