New Zealand Gazette – 1973 – No. 112

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✨ Luggage and Parcel Regulations

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

INTER-ISLAND LUGGAGE ACCOMPANYING PASSENGERS TRAVELLING BY RAIL AND WELLINGTON-LYTTELTON STEAMER

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

(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	Charges in Addition to Checking Fee
Rail and air (other than inter-Island)	20	Parcels rates for the distance in excess of that covered by the rail ticket held.*
Exclusively by air (other than inter-Island)	20	Parcels rates for the full distance. No free allowance will 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-Island)	30	Parcels rates for the rail journey 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.
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, paragraph 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.

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