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RETURN No.27. Statement of Net Expenditure from Vote for Additions to Open Lines, Public Works Fund, 1892-93.

Accountant's Office, New Zealand Railways, A. C. Fife, 21st April, 1893. Railway Accountant. Examined and found correct. James Edward FitzGerald, 27th April, 1893. Controller and Auditor-General.

RETURN No. 28. Statement of Alterations effected in and Additions made to the Scale of Charges during the Year ending 31st March, 1893. PART I.—PASSENGERS. local fares and regulations. Kaihu Section. -Fa-res inserted. Napier-Taranaki and Wellington Sections. Through-return fares between Wellington and Napier Section stations reduced. PART lIL—GOODS. REGULATIONS. (5.) Class F : Maximum load per truck fixed at 6 tons. (23.) Miscellaneous: Regulation re conveyance of arsenic and other poisonous substances inserted. (24.) Imperial Institute, London: Regulations re free carriage of exhibits inserted. Queensland Relief Fund : Regulation inserted respecting free carriage of goods for this fund. PART IV.—LOCAL RATES. Whangarei Section. Ships' goods of Classes A, B, C, D, E to be charged by weight or measurement at option of department. Kaihu Section. Rates inserted. Auckland Section. Rates for goods of Classes A, B, C, and D between Auckland or Newmarket and ports on the Kaipara cancelled, and rates between Auckland or Newmarket and Helensville for Kaipara ports traffic inserted. Rate for cement, Auckland or Auckland Railway Wharf to Onehunga Wharf, reduced. Napier-Taranaki Section. Regulation providing for charging goods of Class E rate and a quarter cancelled. Wellington Section. Regulation providing for charging goods of Class E rate and a quarter cancelled. Greymouth Sectio?i. Rate for timber, Kaiata to Greymouth, reduced. Westport Section. Rate for flax, native, dressed, reduced. Nelson Section. Rate for bark, native, rough, Wakefield to Nelson, reduced. Picton Section. Rate for straw, pressed, consigned to Picton for shipment, reduced. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Rate for wool, undumped, from stations on Duntroon and Hakateramea District Railway to Oamaru and Breakwater reduced.

Vote No. Name of Vote. Appropriation. Expenditure. Credits. Net Expenditure. Public Wobks Pond. Pabt I. 87 Additions to open lines £ s. a. £ s. d. .. 12,612 0 0 12,012 0 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 12,612 0 0