PARCEL AND PASSENGER RATES

Any distance over 10, and not exceeding 20 miles ... 0 9
Any distance over 20, and not exceeding 30 miles ... 1 0
Any distance over 30, and not exceeding 40 miles ... 1 3
Any distance over 40, and not exceeding 80 miles ... 1 9
Any distance over 80, and not exceeding 100 miles ... 2 0

Dogs are not allowed to be taken into the carriages, but will be tied up in the van. No dog is taken unless secured by a chain and collar, or safely packed in a basket or crate. The charge for the carriage of a dog must in every case be prepaid.

Sheep, rams, goats, calves, pigs, and other small animals (except dogs), when conveyed in van, to be charged as follows:

Small calves, pigs, sheep, goats, and other small animals (except dogs and rams), up to 56 lbs. weight, to be charged ordinary parcel rates.

Rams and large calves to be charged 2d. per mile each, with the minimum rate of 3s.

Passenger Rates

First Class, per mile ... 0 3
Second Class, per mile ... 0 2
Return Tickets, one fare and a half.

Special Trains

10s. per mile; minimum charge, £3.

SEASON-TICKET RATES

FIRST CLASS

SECOND CLASS

Season tickets will be issued at half the usual rates to scholars under 17 years of age, and to apprentices and articled pupils under 21 years of age, upon production of satisfactory certificates from the authorities of the school, or from the employers, as the case may be. Season tickets are not transferable; and if used by any other than the person to whom they are issued they are forfeited.

Holders of season tickets must undertake to produce their tickets for examination when required to do so by the proper officer of the railway, and to sign their names when desired so to do in the books of the railway provided for that purpose.

In the event of the loss of a season ticket the holder will not be entitled to another in lieu thereof without another payment.

Season tickets are required to be delivered up to the Railway Department on or before the date of expiry, on which date they cease to be in force.

Season tickets may be obtained at any date on application either personally or in writing at the Traffic Manager’s Office, Invercargill, and the General Manager’s Office, Dunedin, or by written application transmitted through any of the railway Station Masters. Twenty-four hours’ notice should be given in all cases. Applicants will be required to subscribe to the railway rules, by-laws, and regulations, before the tickets can be delivered to them.

GENERAL REGULATIONS

Mean Time kept at all Stations.

Notice – In order to secure the punctual departure of trains, passengers are requested to be at the stations at least five minutes before the time appointed for starting, and earlier if they have luggage, as the Government cannot be responsible for passengers not going by any train unless they have taken their seats before the time it is due to start, or for any luggage not being sent on if it is not in the station, and labelled, at least five minutes before the advertised time of departure of the train.

Children under three years travel free; those above three years and under twelve, at half-price.

Tickets must be shown to the railway servants, or delivered up to them when demanded. Parties not producing their tickets are liable to be charged the fare from the most distant station from which the train shall have started. They are only available on the day of issue, and are not transferable. Parties cannot re-book at an intermediate station by the same train. No tickets will be issued after a train arrives at an intermediate station.

Tickets – Passengers are requested to examine their tickets and change before leaving the booking office counter, as mistakes cannot afterwards be rectified.

The Government will not undertake to make any allowance for tickets lost, mislaid, or not used.

Luggage – Every first-class passenger may take with him, without extra payment, 120 lbs.; every second-class passenger, 100 lbs. of luggage. All other luggage must be paid for, at half-parcel rates, according to weight. The Government will not in any case be liable for luggage taken with the passengers into the carriages, but only when it is labelled and placed in the luggage van.

Incivility – The Government requests that any instance of incivility or misconduct on the part of the persons employed at the stations may be directly reported to the General Manager.

N.B. – The Government appoint that the undermentioned sums be paid them for warehousing passengers’ luggage which has been, or which is about to be, conveyed on their railway, viz: –

For any period not exceeding three days, 2d. for each package; and after three days, 1d. additional.