LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

7. (a) Articles Accepted Free as Luggage—The following articles, being the property of passengers and for their own domestic use, may be conveyed as portion of a passenger’s free allowance:

Bassinets.
Books or a typewriter used in connection with a passenger’s occupation or studies.
Children’s scooters and tricycles.
Crockery.
Dolls’ prams.
Foodstuffs.
Prams and push-chairs.
Sleeping bags.
Small musical instruments.
Sportsmen’s gear, including fishing rods, golf trundlers, and rifles.
Unassembled racing bicycles in portable canvas bags.
Workmen’s tools.
(b) Excess Luggage—The following articles shall not be included in a passenger’s free luggage allowance:

Bedsteads, mattresses, and stretchers.
Bulky musical instruments.
Carpets.
Furniture.
Glassware.
House fittings.
Kerosene and similar mineral oils.
Linoleum.
Liquor.
Live poultry or livestock.
Sewing machines.
Surf boards.
Tents and poles.
8. The department reserves the right to determine whether any package or article (other than bona fide personal luggage) may be carried free as luggage under the provisions of this section.

LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

9. (a) Rates—Excess luggage will be charged at the ordinary rates for parcels provided in section 55, paragraph 1, computed on the actual distance 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 … … … … Section 52.
Bicycles, motor (with or without sidecars) … … Section 53.
Dogs … … … … Section 60.
Fruit and vegetables, New Zealand fresh grown for domestic use, in excess of passenger’s free luggage allowance … … … 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:

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.

10. 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 computed separately for the distance 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 52 kg of bona fide personal luggage per adult passenger (children over 4 years and under 15 years of age, 26 kg) 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.