New Zealand Gazette – 1971 – No. 68

Page 1870

✨ Railway Luggage Regulations



  1. (a) Rates—Excess luggage will be charged at the ordinary rates for parcels provided
    in section 55, paragraph 1, computed on the actual mileage for the route covered by the ticket
    held. Charges will be based on grouped weights. Terminal charges as per section 55, paragraph
    2, will not apply. Excess luggage charges will be payable in respect of the following:

(i) Articles not entitled to be carried free as portion of a passenger's luggage allowance.
(ii) The weight, in excess of the free allowance, of articles entitled to be carried free as
luggage.

(b) Rates on Bicycles, etc.—The following, when accompanying passengers, will be charged
at the rates set out in the sections specified:

Bicycles, pedal
Bicycles, motor (with or without sidecars)
Dogs
Fruit and vegetables, New Zealand fresh grown for domestic use, in
excess of passenger’s free luggage allowance

Section 52.
Section 53.
Section 60.
Section 56.

(c) Road Rates—Luggage checked for combined journeys, vide section 45, paragraph 1, will
be charged at the following rates for the conveyance of excess luggage (if any) on the road
portion of the journey:

Between And Excess Luggage Not Exceeding
28 lb
Kaitaia .. Otiria or Okaihau .. $0.50
Mangakino Putaruru .. 0.45
Whakatane Te Puke .. 0.45
Whakatane Rotorua .. 0.50
Opotiki Taneatua 0.45
Opotiki Rotorua .. 0.55
Gisborne Rotorua .. 0.75
Gisborne .. Taneatua 0.65
Rotorua Frankton 0.50
Foxton Levin .. 0.35

Bicycles, and dogs on chains or in boxes, accompanying passengers by rail and railway road
service will be charged for the road journey at the road rates applicable to through-booked
traffic.

  1. Inter-Island Excess between Wellington and Lyttelton—When excess charges are payable
    on inter-Island checked luggage between Wellington and Lyttelton, such charges will be com-
    puted separately for the mileage to be travelled by rail on each separate section of railway
    and the rates for the sea journey prescribed in paragraph 12 of this section. Inter-Island
    luggage (whether excessed or otherwise) also bicycles and sewing-machines must be checked.
    A free allowance of 1 cwt of bona fide personal luggage per adult passenger (children over
    4 years and under 15 years of age, 56 lb) will be allowed to passengers travelling inter-Island
    by sea. The free allowance will not apply to inter-Island airways passengers whose luggage is
    forwarded by sea.

  2. 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
Kerosene
Liquor
Poultry, live
Surf boards
Vegetables
and articles of a similar nature.



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