3. Minimum Charges—Except where otherwise specified, any less quantity than the minimum
   prescribed will be charged at such minimum, or on actual weight at Class E plus 50 percent,
   whichever is cheaper.

4. Handling—The department may require all loading, unloading, or tallying to be performed
   by the owners. Where any such services is performed by the department, charges as provided
   in section 122 will be made.

5. Goods Loaded in Containers

6. Railway-owned Containers—Except as otherwise provided, goods loaded in the
   department’s lightweight-metal containers will be charged as follows, subject to a minimum
   charge as for 1 ton gross per container:

(a) On the gross weight of the container and contents at the rail rate appropriate to the
goods involved. Where goods classified at Class G are so conveyed, charges will be based
on a gross measurement of 280 cu ft.

(b) A hire charge of $2 per container will be made in addition to normal freight charges.
(c) Demurrage will be charged as under, on each container not discharged by owners and
returned to the department within 16 working hours from the time the container is available
at destination station for delivery—
$2 per container for each succeeding 8 working hours or part thereof.

2. Privately-owned Containers—Except where otherwise provided, goods railed in specially
   constructed privately owned containers will be charged as follows:

(a) Loaded Containers—On the gross weight of the container at the appropriate rail rate
applicable to the goods involved. In the case of Class G goods charges will be based on
the gross measurement of the container.

(b) Empty Containers—Charges on empty containers will be based on the actual weight of
the container at Class C with the following exception:

Collapsible containers which have conveyed goods on the outward journey will, when
collapsed, be returned to the original forwarding station free of charge.

N.B.—This provision applies only to specially constructed containers as approved by the
General-Manager, and is not applicable to empty containers such as cartons, cases, or crates.

3. Goods loaded in containers will be treated as “packed” for the purposes of this section.

4. Cranage—No charge will be made for the use of the department’s cranage facilities to lift
   containers.

5. Exhibits Forwarded to and from Shows, etc.

6. Outward Journey—Livestock or goods of the following or similar classes consigned for
   exhibition at shows listed hereunder and to be returned subsequently to the owner at the
   original forwarding station are to be charged at full rates plus 50 percent on the outward
   journey:

Livestock, dogs, poultry, and birds (excluding those
for exhibition at side shows)
Implements (including tractors, but excluding motor
bicycles, motor cars, motor lorries, or motor buses)
Produce and any other commodities catalogued for
exhibition at shows
Food troughs, buckets, poultry pens, and coops
Tents to be used for covering the foregoing exhibits
Trade displays comprising samples of manufactured
goods, and relative advertising matter

Forwarded to—
Agricultural, pastoral, horticultural,
dog, poultry, or cage-bird shows;
or egg-laying competitions.

Livestock or articles which are not to be returned after exhibition or competition are to be
charged at full rates on the outward journey.

All freight charges due under this paragraph must be prepaid.

2. Homeward Journey—Any exhibits specified in paragraph 1 (whether forming the whole or
   only portion of the original consignment) will be conveyed back to the original consignor and
   forwarding station free under the following conditions:

(a) They will be conveyed at owner’s risk.
(b) They must be returned unsold as one consignment within 1 month from the closing of
the show, or competition.
(c) The outward or homeward journey must not have been broken to compete at a show or
competition.
(d) When the returned exhibits are consigned, a certificate in the prescribed form signed by
the secretary of the show must be tendered with the consignment note.

3. Postponements—When a show is postponed owing to weather conditions, the concession
   will be allowed in respect of exhibits returned to forwarding stations.

4. Parcels Traffic—Exhibits returned free will not be conveyed through Parcels Branch
   unless they were conveyed through Parcels Branch on the outward journey. Any terminal
   charges applicable to the outward and homeward journey are to be prepaid on the outward
   journey.

5. Exhibits on Circuit—All goods specified in paragraph 1 of this section not coming within
   the provisions of paragraph 2 and which are entered to compete at two or more shows or
   competitions, within the period between their departure from the original forwarding station
   and their return thereto, will be charged full rates for all journeys made. On the return of such
   exhibits to the original forwarding station, and on production of a certificate on the prescribed
   form obtainable at any officered railway station, a refund will be made of 25 percent of the
   total amount of railage paid for all exhibits which have completed a circuit of journeys. The
   return journey to the original forwarding station must be completed within 1 month from the
   conclusion of the last show, or competition, at which such exhibits were entered to compete.