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RETURN NO. 27. Statement of Net Expenditure from Vote for Additions to Open Lines, Public Works Fund, 1893-94.

Accountant's Office, New Zealand Railways, A. C. Fife, 18th April, 1894. Railway Accountant. Correct. James Edwabd FitzGebald, 19th April, 1894. Controller and Auditor-General.

RETURN No. 28. Statement of Alterations effected in and Additions made to the Scale of Chabges during the Year ending 31st March, 1894. PART I.—PASSENGERS. Ordinary-tickets : Single fares for 1 mile reduced. Return tickets over 200 miles and up to 300 miles made available for two months, previously available for one month. Single commutation tickets made available for two months, previously available for one month. Rates for special trains amended. LOCAL FAEES AND EEGULATIONS. Suburban Traffic. Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin : Single fares, 1 and 2 miles, reduced. Kaihu Section. First-class fares inserted. Napier-Tar anaki and Wellington Sections. Te Aro included in list of through booking stations to and from Napier Section stations. Greymouth Section. Fares reduced. Westport Section. Fares reduced. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Oamaru to Breakwater, fare removed. Single fares, Pelichet Bay and Ravensbourne, reduced. PART lI.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC. Commercial travellers' luggage, when consigned as goods, to be charged Class B. Regulation re lost luggage amended. Parcel Rates: Dress-stands, basketware, basket-chairs, bicycles, and tricycles to be charged rate and a quarter. Rate for conveyance of stereotype easts reduced. Shetland ponies to be charged same rate as asses. Concession granted to horses of members of hunt-clubs returning from meets extended to horses of members of polo-clubs. Bicycles, tricycles, and perambulators : Rates, when conveyed as passengers' luggage, removed; each passenger to be allowed to take one bicycle, or tricycle, or one perambulator as " personal luggage." Rate for conveyance of corpses reduced. PART lII.—GOODS. REGULATIONS. Regulation 2 : Scale for small lots amended. Charge for small lots of rabbit-, sheep-, and calfskins, wool, hides, lard, fat, and tallow reduced. Charge for reloading goods of Class F provided. Regulation for measurement of rusticated timber and moulded boards inserted. Live-stock: Rate for store cattle in large mobs reduced. Rock-salt and salt for agricultural or pastoral purposes included under the 1-J-ton minimum. Charge for handling transhipment goods in Government sheds at port-stations amended. Demurrage-charge for double-bogie trucks inserted.

Vote No. Name ot Vote. Appropriation. Expenditure. Credits. Net Expenditure. Public Woeks Fund. Pakt I. Class III. —Railways. 88 Additions to open lines £ s. d. j £ s. d. 18,978 0 0 ! 8,041 18 4 I £ s. d. £ s. d. 8,041 18 4