13 SEPTEMBER
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
INTER-ISLAND LUGGAGE ACCOMPANYING PASSENGERS TRAVELLING BY RAIL AND STEAMER
8. The following provisions of this paragraph apply to luggage which has to be transported
by the steamer services between Wellington and Lyttelton:
(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 section 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 12 of section 46.
(c) The following articles will not be accepted for checking—
Cardboard boxes which do not offer adequate protection to the contents.
Fragile packages.
Live animals or poultry.
Motor cycles with sidecar attached.
LUGGAGE OF PASSENGERS TRAVELLING BY AIR, OR BY RAIL AND AIR
9. (a) Passengers travelling by air services may have their luggage checked and conveyed
by rail and (in the case of an inter-Island journey) by (a) the department’s Wellington-Blenheim
or Wellington-Nelson rail/air services, or (b) the Wellington-Lyttelton Steamer Express
services.
The following charges will be payable, and in this connection, when charges at parcels rates
are levied, the terminal charge provided for in section 55, paragraph 2, will not apply:
Passenger Travels by Checking Fee Per Charges in Addition to Checking Fee
Package
Rail and air (other than c 20 Parcels rates for the distance in excess of that covered
inter-Island) by the rail ticket held.
Exclusively by air (other 20 Parcels rates for the full distance. No free allowance will
than inter-Island) be granted.
Rail and air (inter-Island) 30 Parcels rates for the distance in excess of that covered
by the rail tickets held plus:
(i) Rail/air parcels rates between Wellington and
Blenheim or between Wellington and Nelson; or
(ii) Inter-Island excess charges in accordance with
section 46, paragraph 12. The free luggage allowance
as provided therein will not be granted.
Exclusively by air (inter- 30 Parcels rates for the rail journey plus:
Island)
(i) Rail/air parcels rates between Wellington and
Blenheim or between Wellington and Nelson; or
(ii) Inter-Island excess charges in accordance with
section 46, paragraph 12. The free luggage allowance
as provided therein will not be granted.
Rail, sea, and air .. 30 Parcels rates for the distance in excess of that covered
by the rail tickets held. Inter-Island excess charges
will be computed as provided in section 46, para-
graph 12. The free luggage allowance as provided
therein will not be granted unless the passenger holds
a steamer ticket for the sea route by which his luggage
is forwarded.
Plus excess luggage charges (if any) for the distance travelled by rail.
(b) A passenger may forward his luggage as ordinary parcels or goods traffic.
LUGGAGE OF PASSENGERS TRAVELLING BY ROAD OR BY RAIL AND ROAD
10. (a) Passengers travelling by road transport may, on production of rail and/or railway
road service tickets (as applicable), have their luggage checked and conveyed by rail as under:
Passenger Travels by Charges
Rail and railway road Subject to the provisions of section 46, paragraph 7, luggage
service or exclusively by will be checked by rail from the original starting station to
railway road service (see the final destination station on payment of the prescribed
also paragraph 1 (c) and checking fee. (The term “station” means the nearest railway-
(d) of this section) station to the point at which a passenger may join or alight
from the road vehicle at the commencement or completion of
his journey.)
Rail and road transport not Luggage may be checked from the original starting station to
controlled by the Rail- the final destination station on payment of checking fees, plus
ways Department excess luggage charges (if any) for the total distance travelled
by rail, and freight charges at parcels rates, based on the total
quantity of luggage, for any distance in excess of that covered
by the rail ticket held. The terminal charge provided in
section 55, paragraph 2, will not apply, and luggage will not
be delivered by the department.
Exclusively by road tran- Luggage will not be accepted for checking, but may be
sport not controlled by consigned as parcels or goods traffic at the option of the
the Railways Department owner.
(b) Passengers travelling by railway road services may forward bicycles and motor cycles
by rail at the charges applicable to such articles accompanying rail passengers.