New Zealand Gazette – 1973 – No. 112

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✨ Luggage and Parcels Regulations



LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

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  1. 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 104 kg in weight.
Bulky musical instruments
Fruit
Furniture
House fittings
Kerosene
Liquor
Poultry, live
Surf boards
Vegetables
and articles of a similar nature.

  1. Inter-Island Excess Rates—In addition to the checking fee, the following are the charges between Wellington and Lyttelton (including sea freight, wharfage, and cartage) for luggage, etc., not entitled to the free allowance:

Luggage and merchandise:
26 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. $0.90
52 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1.50
78 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2.15
104 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2.75
130 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3.40
156 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4.00
182 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4.65
208 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5.30
234 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6.10
260 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6.75
Each additional 26 kg .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.70
Bicycles, pedal, each .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2.30
Bicycles, tandem, each .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2.75
Bicycles, pedal, powered (including "Mopeds"), each .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3.55
Bicycles, motor, each .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6.10
Bicycles, motor, with sidecar (attached), each .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 12.00
Motor scooters, each .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. As motor bicycles.

  1. Reserved for Future Use

  2. Theatrical Companies' Luggage and Effects

  3. The provisions of this section will apply to the luggage and effects of theatrical companies.

  4. Theatrical companies comprising not less than six adult members who travel by rail or railway road services will be entitled to a free luggage allowance of 104 kg for each adult ticket held.

All luggage in excess of the free allowance will, if loaded in the guard's van, be charged at the rates for excess luggage vide section 46, paragraph 9.

"Luggage" for the purpose of this paragraph will be confined to the wardrobe and other articles incidental thereto. The department reserves the right to decline to accept any articles as luggage under this section.

  1. Where the members of a theatrical company do not travel by railway services or where the number travelling by rail services is less than 6 adult members, the luggage, if conveyed in the guard's van, will be dealt with in all respects as an ordinary consignment and charged at parcels rates, section 55.

  2. Luggage and effects conveyed in wagons other than guard's van will be charged as follows:

(a) Where exclusive use of the wagon is provided:

Per Kilometre

c
Bogie wagons on express passenger trains 48
Bogie wagons on goods, mixed, or passenger trains 34
Kc, Kp, Ks, Xc and XP wagons 29
Four-wheeled wagons, n.o.s. 24

(b) Where exclusive use of the wagon is not provided, charges will be based on actual weight at Class C plus 50% rates or at the wagon rates provided in subparagraph (a) hereof, whichever is cheaper.

(c) All loading and unloading must be performed by owners at their own risk and responsibility.



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