New Zealand Gazette – 1957 – No. 40

Page 953

✨ Railway Regulations for Luggage and Parcels



28 MAY

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

953

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

  1. Newspapers and Stereotype Casts

  2. Newspapers (published at intervals not exceeding seven days), periodicals (published at intervals not exceeding one month), and stereotype casts and type set up for reproduction purposes (consigned by or to newspaper proprietors) will be conveyed subject to the following provisions, viz.:

(a) Packages of newspapers and periodicals must be open at both ends.

(b) No receipts will be given for the packages; they will be conveyed at owners’ risk, the Department not being liable for damage, delay, detention, or loss; and they must be brought to, and taken from, the railway by the owners. If owners desire them conveyed at the risk of the Department, the ordinary parcel rates will be charged.

(c) Charges on packages conveyed under this regulation, must, except as provided in paragraph 2 hereof, be prepaid by affixing stamps, obtainable from the Department. Packages insufficiently stamped will be charged the difference between the amount represented by the stamps affixed and the full ordinary parcel rates, and the Department will not be responsible for any delay which may arise in consequence.

(d) A declaration that the parcels do not contain other than the articles mentioned above must also be printed or plainly written on the address, thus: “Newspapers only”. “Stereotype Casts only”, as the case may be.

(e) The Department reserves the right to open and examine packages.

(f) Novels will not be accepted at newspaper rates.

(g) Rates for Stamped Parcels:

Weight Not Exceeding Over 150 Miles
75 Miles 150 Miles
s. d. s. d. s. d.
3 lb. 0 6 0 9 0 9
7 lb. 0 9 0 9 1 0
14 lb. 1 0 1 0 1 6
28 lb. 1 6 1 9 2 0
42 lb. 2 0 2 6 2 6
56 lb. 2 6 2 9 3 0
84 lb. 3 0 3 9 4 9
112 lb. 3 6 5 3 6 6

The charges will be computed separately for each package.

(h) Single newspapers will be conveyed, irrespective of distance, at a uniform charge of 1d. per copy.

  1. Rates for Bulk Consignments—Newspaper proprietors who so desire may forward their newspapers and periodicals under the following conditions, instead of at the foregoing rates:

(a) Packages will not be stamped, but the newspaper proprietor will send to the railway station with each lot of newspapers or periodicals a consignment note or other form of approved list showing the number of packages for each station, together with the total weight of the whole consignment.

(b) The charges for conveyance of packages of newspapers will be computed at the rate of 6s. 6d. per hundredweight on the gross weight forwarded by the same consignor in each week irrespective of the station or stations from which the newspapers are railed or the distance the packages are carried. Minimum quantity from each newspaper proprietor per week, 10 cwt.

(c) The charge for the conveyance of packages of periodicals (published at intervals not exceeding one month) will be computed at the rate of 6s. 6d. per hundredweight on the gross weight forwarded by the same consignor in each four weeks, irrespective of the station or stations from which the consignments are railed or the distance the packages are carried. Minimum quantity of periodicals from each consignor per four weeks, 4 tons.



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