New Zealand Gazette – 1965 – No. 23

Page 677

✨ Luggage and Parcels Regulations



12 MAY
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
677

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

  1. Definition of Luggage (Shipping Companies)—(a) The following articles being the property of passengers, may be conveyed as portion of a passenger’s free allowance:
    Bona fide articles carried as personal luggage for passenger’s personal use, comfort, or convenience in connection with a journey.
    Artists’ gear.
    Children’s tricycles.
    Invalid chair (motor or hand propelled) accompanying an invalid will be conveyed free of shipping and wharfage charges.
    Prams and push chairs.
    Sportsmen’s gear.
    Tourists’ gear.
    Unassembled racing bicycles in portable canvas bags.
    Workmen’s tools.

(b) The following articles will not be included in the passenger’s free allowance:
Any package exceeding 2 cwt in weight.
Bulky musical instruments
Fruit
Furniture
House fittings
Kerosine
Liquor
Poultry, live
Vegetables
} and articles of a similar nature.

  1. Inter-Island Excess Rates—In addition to the checking fee, the following are the charges between Wellington and Lyttelton (including sea freight, wharfage, and cartage) for luggage, etc., not entitled to the free allowance:
    Luggage and merchandise:

½ cwt .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. £ s. d.
1 ,, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 8 6
1½ ,, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 14 6
2 ,, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 0 3
2½ ,, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 6 3
3 ,, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 12 6
3½ ,, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 18 3
4 ,, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 4 6
4½ ,, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 10 6
5 ,, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 18 0
Each additional ½ cwt .. .. .. .. .. 3 4 3
Bicycles, pedal, each .. .. .. .. .. 0 6 6
Bicycles, tandem, each .. .. .. .. .. 1 1 9
Bicycles, pedal, powered (including “Mopeds”), each .. .. 1 6 0
Bicycles, motor, each .. .. .. .. .. 1 14 0
Bicycles, motor, with sidecar (attached), each .. .. .. 2 18 0
Motor scooters, each .. .. .. .. .. 5 14 6
As motor bicycles.

  1. Reserved for future use

  2. Theatrical Companies’ Luggage and Effects

  3. The provisions of this section will apply to the luggage and effects of theatrical companies.

  4. Theatrical companies comprising not less than six adult members who travel by rail or railway road services will be entitled to a free luggage allowance of 2 cwt for each adult ticket held.

All luggage in excess of the free allowance will, if loaded in the guard’s van, be charged at the rates for excess luggage vide section 46, paragraph 9.

“Luggage” for the purpose of this paragraph will be confined to the wardrobe and other articles incidental thereto. The Department reserves the right to decline to accept any articles as luggage under this section.

  1. Where the members of a theatrical company do not travel by railway services or where the number travelling by rail services is less than 6 adult members, the luggage, if conveyed in the guard’s van, will be dealt with in all respects as an ordinary consignment and charged at parcels rates, section 55.


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