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✨ Railway Luggage and Storage Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 40

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

The station platform will be cleared after the arrival or departure (as the case may be) of each train, and all luggage or other packages or articles found and not immediately claimed will be treated as coming within this regulation.
Luggage or other packages or articles left in a train or left unclaimed on railway premises and not claimed within three months after the time when first placed in storage as lost luggage may be sold.
Any liability which the Department may have in respect of any package or article under this regulation is hereby limited to £20.
Left Luggage
Except as otherwise provided, luggage, packages, or articles may be accepted for storage at the following rates and charges, subject to the conditions specified in this regulation:

	First Four Weeks. Per Week or Part Thereof	For Each Additional Week or Part Thereof
Per package or article, n.o.s.	0 6	2 0
Per bicycle (pedal)	0 6	2 0
*Per bicycle (pedal), motor-propelled	1 0	2 0
Per package or article tendered at the Department’s wharf booking offices at Auckland or Wellington for transport to and storage at the local station	† 0 6	2 0

	For First Day or Part Thereof	For Each Additional Day or Part Thereof
*Per motor-cycle, n.o.s.	2 0	1 0
*Per motor cycle with sidecar attached	3 9	2 0

Motor cycles or motor-propelled pedal bicycles will not be accepted for storage when charged with benzine, or any inflammable liquid or vapour.

† In addition to the storage charge a sortage charge of 1s. per package or article is to be levied.

Bicycle Season Tickets—Season tickets for the storage of bicycles (pedal) will be issued at the following rates:

For one calendar month ............ 4 0
For three calendar months .......... 9 0

The currency of bicycle-storage tickets issued under the provisions of this paragraph will commence on the first and expire on the last day of a calendar month only, provided that season tickets for the storage of bicycles (pedal) issued to scholars or students who hold tickets issued under the provisions of regulation 21 or 22 will be charged at the rate of 9s. each, and will be made available for fourteen weeks from date of commencement.

Season tickets for the storage of motor-propelled pedal bicycles will be issued at double the rates shown in paragraph 2 hereof.

General Conditions—4. The Department reserves the right to decline to accept any article or package under this regulation. The following will not be accepted:

Articles of an inflammable, explosive, or dangerous nature.
Articles which are wet or leaking.
Articles emitting an offensive or strong smell.
Live animals.
Loaded firearms.

Should any such articles be inadvertently accepted they may, on being found to be within the categories mentioned, be removed and stored, or otherwise suitably dealt with as the Department may determine, at the sole risk and cost of the depositor or owner.

The Department does not undertake to accept perishable articles for storage, but where a person specially desires any perishable articles to be so stored they may be accepted subject to the special condition that the Department shall not be liable for any damage or loss that may arise in connection with such deposit.
No article or package shall be considered as having been left in the custody of the Department under this regulation unless the person desiring to deposit such article or package shall have handed over the same to the Department, and shall have paid the proper charge and received a left-luggage

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