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RETURN NO. 27— continued. Statement of Alterations effected in and Additions made to the Scale of Charges during the Three Months ending the 31st March, 1895. Part No. 2. PART I.—PASSENGERS. General Fares and Regulations. Rates for official season tickets, inserted School excursion fares for distances over seven miles reduced, and age of scholars limited. Local Fares and Regulations. Westport Section. I?ares for passengers on Mohikinui Coal Company's line removed, PART lI.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC. Regulation for carriage of gunpowder in packages not exceeding 141bs. at double parcels rates inserted Clause re free carriage, on return journey of horses of members of hunt or polo clubs cancelled. PART lII.—GOODS. Classified Rates. Rates for live-stock in double-floored trucks reduced. Regulations. Live Stock: Rate for store cattle and sheep in large mobs reduced Charge for road-metal consigned to public bodies in lots of not less than ten tons for distances of thirteen miles and over reduced Charge for New-Zealand-grown fruit, fresh, and empty returned fruit-cases, reduced. PART IV.—GOODS, LOCAL RATES. Auckland Section. Rate for tinned fish, ex ship at Helensville, consigned to Auckland, reduced. Wellington Section. Rate for native coal (anthracite or bituminous), Wellington to Petone, reduced. Napier-Taranaki and Wellington Sections. Rate for lime, except for agricultural purposes and cement-making, from Mauriceville to stations on Napier-Taranaki Section reduced Rates for sheep from Hawke's Bay District to Petone, Ngahauranga, and Wellington removed Goods of Class M consigned to Johnsonville, Wellington, Ngahauranga, and Petone: Reduction made on double-deckers, altered to 4s. per truck. Westport Section. Rates for goods on Mokihinui Coal Company's line removed Rates for coals and coal-dross to Westport for local use reduced, and rates from Mokihinui and Waimangaroa Branoh lines to Westport removed Rates for timber for export reduced. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Rates for wool from Washdyke a.nd Timaru Refrigerating Siding to Timaru reduced Rates for timber from sawmills in Southland to Dunedin, Orari, and intermediate stations reduced Rate for goods of Classes A and B from Dunedin to Milton, Balclutha, Waitahuna, and Lawrence reduced. PART V.—CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS. Acid, sulphurous, packed. Owners' risk Reduced to Class A. PART VI.—WHARVES. Auckland Section. Onehunga Wharf Charges and rates amended. Picton Section. Picton Wharf : Goods, produce, or stock from settlers in Pelorus Sound to be exempt from wharfage. T. RONAYNE, General Manager. By Authority: Samuel Costall, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB9s.

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