✨ Luggage and Parcels Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 40
LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.
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The maximum quantity of bona fide samples and personal luggage which any commercial traveller will be allowed to carry at the rates specified in paragraph 4 or paragraph 5 of this regulation is 10 cwt. or 200 cubic feet, exclusive of the free allowance of 112 lb. Any additional quantity, if sent by express, or passenger train, will be charged at the rates provided in paragraph 9 of regulation 46 for excess luggage, or it may be consigned as "goods" and conveyed by goods or mixed trains, at goods rates (Class C).
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These rates apply to bona fide samples for exhibition only. If the samples or any portion thereof are sold or otherwise disposed of parcel rates will be charged. Where a commercial traveller who has already made a rail journey, accompanied by his samples, returns to his home station without such samples, he will not be granted the allowance of 112 lb. on any subsequent samples he may carry until the original lot is returned to the home station.
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Annual Luggage Tickets—Commercial travellers holding annual season tickets, issued under the provisions of regulation 18, may obtain annual tickets for their bona fide samples for the lines over which their annual tickets are available at the following rates:
| Miles | Per Cwt. or Part Thereof Up to 5 Cwt. | Each Additional Cwt. or Part Thereof Up to 10 Cwt. |
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| For distances not exceeding 300 | £ s. d. 5 19 6 | £ s. d. 4 16 3 |
| " 400 | 7 14 9 | 5 19 6 |
| " 500 | 8 18 3 | 7 2 6 |
| " 600 | 10 3 0 | 8 7 6 |
| " 700 | 10 14 0 | 8 18 3 |
| " 800 | 11 19 0 | 10 3 0 |
| " 1,000 | 13 2 0 | 10 14 0 |
| For distances over 1,000 | 13 14 9 | 11 19 0 |
In computing charges for annual luggage tickets mileage will be counted one way only.
- Excess Rate for Samples—Commercial travellers who do not take out annual tickets for their bona fide samples will be charged for such samples as follows:
| Miles: Not Exceeding | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 | 300 | 350 | 400 | 450 | 500 | For Each Additional 50 Miles or Fraction Thereof |
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| For each 28 lb or part thereof | s. d. 0 7 | s. d. 1 2 | s. d. 1 9 | s. d. 2 4 | s. d. 2 11 | s. d. 3 6 | s. d. 4 1 | s. d. 4 8 | s. d. 5 3 | s. d. 5 10 | s. d. 0 7 |
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Cream separators, cash registers, counter weighing machines, and suchlike articles, being bona fide samples carried by the authorised representative of the selling firm, will be accepted as commercial travellers’ samples.
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Goods for Sale—Bona fide commercial travellers representing houses conducting an exclusively wholesale business who take out samples for exhibition only and goods for sale may be charged the commercial travellers’ sample rate on the bona fide samples and the ordinary rate (goods, parcels, or excess, as the case may be) on the goods for sale.
(a) The consignment-note (in the case of packages consigned through goods or parcels) must be endorsed by the traveller as follows:
I hereby certify that this consignment consists of [Weight] bona fide commercial samples, which are not for sale, and [Weight] of goods for sale.
(b) In the case of excess luggage a certificate in writing in the foregoing terms and signed by the traveller should be tendered with the packages.
- Storage—Commercial travellers will be allowed eighteen hours’ free storage for their samples or bona fide personal luggage conditionally on the Department not being liable in any circumstances whatever for any loss or damage in respect of the same.
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