at Waikouaiti and Moeraki both going and returning for the period of one year commencing on the day of the ,late of last aibresaid and the conditions relating, m the carriage of goods and rates of passage shall be contained in the said Schedule and shall be advertised by the said John Jones in the local newspapers once in every three months of the said term and a printed copy of the said table of rates shall be hung up and kept in a conspicuous place both in the office of the said John Jones at Dunedin aforesaid and in the Saloon and Steerage of the Vessel and that the dates of sailing of the said Vessel shall be from time to time advertised in the local newspapers by the said John Jones and shall be adhered to as strictly as circumstances will permit, and every endeavour shall be made by the said John Jones to obviate disappointment to shippers consignees or passengers by delay: AND ALSO that a book shall be kept in the office of the said John Jones open to the inspection of passengers and shippers in which shall be entered applications for freight or passage in the order in which they are made and berths and rooms shall be reserved for such applicants in the order of their applications: PROVIDED that the said John Jones shall not be bound to receive any application for the shipment of goods earlier than four days or later than one day before the advertised date of sailing: PROVIDED ALSO that in case of failure to ship goods on the part of any applicant within twenty-four hours previous to the appointed time of sailing the room applied for may be appropriated to any other applicants in the order of their applications: AND PROVIDED ALSO that the said John Jones shall be entitled to stipulate for a deposit of some part not exceeding the half of the amount of the freight at the time of any application being made which deposit shall be forfeited in the event of non-shipment unless the room shall be filled up with other goods: AND further that the said John Jones shall not in any case put on board goods belonging to himself to the exclusion of the goods of other persons to an extent of more than one-third of the carrying capacity of the said Vessel or other Vessel as aforesaid notwithstanding any priority of booking: AND the said parties hereto do hereby further mutually covenant and agree to and with each other that in case the said Vessel or any other Vessel to be substituted in lieu thereof as aforesaid shall at any time during the said term become disabled through accident or want of repair or any other cause and shall in consequence cease to run and ply as aforesaid then the said John Jones shall with all convenient speed cause the same to be refitted and repaired or shall within two months thereafter supply the place of such Vessels by some other Vessel

AND in consideration of the premises and of the covenants conditions and agreements as well before as herein both expressed the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson Superintendent as aforesaid for himself and his successors in office doth hereby covenant promise and agree to and with the said John Jones his executors and administrators that he or his successors will pay or cause to be paid to the said John Jones his executors or administrators for the period aforesaid the said subsidy or sum of One thousand pounds by equal monthly payments of Eighty-three pounds six shillings and eight pence each at the termination of each and every month of the said term or such proportion of such monthly instalments as shall be earned conformably to the conditions of this contract: AND the said parties hereto do hereby mutually covenant and agree to and with each other that the maximum rates to be charged by the said John Jones for the conveyance of passengers and goods to and from Dunedin Waikouaiti Moeraki and Oamaru shall be those mentioned in the Schedule or table of rates hereunder written: AND that for the purpose of receiving and landing passengers and goods the said Vessel shall lie as near to every landing place as shall be practicable and consistent with the safety of the said Vessel and that the shippers or consignees shall be bound weather permitting to take or receive their goods to or from alongside thereof within six working hours after the Vessel’s arrival at the place of loading and discharge at their own expense and risk and that passengers shall pay their own expenses of shipping and landing unless otherwise expressly stipulated and agreed to failing which the commander of the said Vessel shall be at liberty to ship or land such goods at the expense and risk of the owner or owners thereof or to leave at or to take back to the port of shipment such goods or passengers and in the latter case the said John Jones may charge and claim in addition to the freight and passage mentioned in the said Schedule one-half more for back freight for the said goods and passage: PROVIDED that the detention on board of such passengers and goods has not been occasioned by stress of weather: AND that the said John Jones shall take passengers and goods from the Jetty at Dunedin and land passengers and goods thereon free of any charge beyond the fare and freight.