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RETURN NO. 29. Statement of Alterations effected in and Additions made to the Scale of Charges during the Year ending the 31st March, 1896. PART I.—PASSENGERS. Gbnebal Pabes and Regulations. Ordinary Tickets : Time for which ordinary return tickets for distances from eleven to twenty miles are available extended to one calendar month. Privilege re breaking journey made applicable to all ordinary tickets for distances over ten miles. Regulation re extension of ordinary return tickets for distances over ten miles inserted. Regulation re fares of 2d. per mile first class and Id. per mile second class for excursions on holidays and other special occasions, as may be arranged by the department, inserted. Rates for half-yearly, quarterly, and monthly season tickets reduced. Newspaper reporters' season tickets made available only for use for the purpose of reporting by any bona fide reporter permanently and wholly engaged upon the staff of a newspaper and not following arty other profession or occupation. School Season Tickets : Age-limit raised from nineteen years to twenty years. Teachers' Saturday Season Tickets : Form of certificate amended. Regulation re religious bodies and friendly societies removed. Special Trains: Charge for mail specials, consisting of more than one large or two small carriages, reduced. School Excursions : Regulation and fares amended. Fares for friendly societies' and factories' excursions reduced. Golf clubs added to the list of teams entitled to concession in fares when travelling together in parties of twelve and over. Minimum number of passengers entitling pleasure parties and athletic teams to travel the return journey, on the day the tickets are issued, at single fares, reduced to twelve. Minimum number of passengers entitling theatrical, concert, and circus companies to concession in fares reduced to six. Fares for students of agricultural and technical colleges in parties of five and upwards travelling together on Fridays and Saturdays for field-instruction reduced. Local Fabes and Regulations. Suburban Traffic. Te Aro included in suburban radius. Whangarei Section. Single fares reduced. Issue of return tickets abolished. Kaihu Section. Return tickets issued on Saturdays at single fares to be available for day of issue only. Auckland Section. Fares between Newmarket and Green Lane reduced. Fares between Remuera and Green Lane reduced. Fares from Auckland, Newmarket, and Mount Eden to Waikomiti Cemetery removed. Wellington Section. Distance for charging fares and season and commutation tickets between Te Aro and Lower Hutt inserted. Picton Section. Regulation re return tickets between Picton and Blenheim removed. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Distance for charging fares and season and commutation tickets between Oamaru and Waiareka inserted. Rates for season and commutation tickets between Pelichet Bay and St. Leonard's reduced. PART lI.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC. Passengers' luggage to be distinctly marked by passengers with their names and the station to which they are proceeding. Liability of Minister for loss or damage to passengers' luggage limited to £10. Regulation re bicycles, tricycles, and velocipedes, when conveyed as "Passengers' Luggage," amended. Maximum charge per package of lost luggage inserted. Commercial travellers' samples arriving by train, or sent to stations for despatch by train, to be stored free of charge for eighteen hours. Rates for carriage of parcels weighing 281b. and over for distances of over 100 miles reduced. Rate for fuse in small packages reduced. Rate for books forwarded for exchange to and from subscribers to circulating libraries reduced. Regulation re carriages, entire horses, and polo ponies amended. Rate for New-Zealand-grown fresh vegetables reduced. Rate for game, dead rabbits, and fresh fish in small quantities reduced. Rate for milk for other than factory purposes reduced. Rate for milk consigned to cheesefactories for cheese-making reduced. Rate for milk consigned to butter-factories and to or from creameries for distances over fifty-five miles reduced. Local Fabes and Regulations. Whangarei Section. Regulation re parcels amended. Auckland Section. Rate for milk between Mount Eden, Auckland, or Newmarket, and stations not exceeding ten miles distance therefrom, removed. Wellington Section. Rates for milk consigned to Wellington and for milk from Mungaroa to Petone removed.

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