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RETURN No. 29-couthmed. Statement of Alterations effected in and Additions made to the Scale of Charges— contimied. PART lII.—GOODS. Classified Rates. Rates for goods of Class F (chaff, firewood, &c), for distances eight to twelve miles, and over thirty miles, reduced. Regulations. Regulation 1 amended so to permit of mixed consignments of goods of Classes E, F, N, P, or Q to be grouped together in one or more lots. Animal Manures, &c.: Regulation amended so as to include lime-gas refuse; lime from local kilns consigned to country stations for agricultural purposes, to ship for export, or for cementmaking ; limestone, animal manures, scrap-iron, old iron rails for scrap, firewood, split house-blocks, and posts and rails. Regulations re charging quantities under a truck load amended. Where wagons are overloaded, rate and a quarter to be charged instead of rate and a half. Timber: Charge for small lots for short distances reduced. Regulation re measurement of rusticated weatherboards, tongued-and-grooved flooring- and lining-boards, and boards of irregular width and thickness, and of sawn timber (dressed or undressed), amended. Measurement of round timber to be computed according to Hoppus tables of trade measurement. Palings and shingles to be charged actual measurement. Live-stock: Drovers may accompany consignments of less than three trucks of live-stock when sent by goods train on payment of ordinary fare. Department reserves the right to supply singlefloored double-bogie trucks for conveyance of sheep, &c, when double-floored trucks are not available. Clause re charging mixed consignments of Classes N, P, or Q removed. Rate for native coal for export to places outside the Colony of New Zealand reduced. Rate for New-Zealand-grown fresh vegetables reduced. Rate for game, dead rabbits, and fresh fish in small quantities reduced. Rate for empty cases and shooks (New Zealand timber), consigned to fruitgrowers for carriage of fruit by rail, reduced. Rate for grass- and clover-seeds returning from seed-cleaning establishments, reduced. Regulation re carts, drays, and wagons amended. Rate for empty returned vegetable packages reduced. Hokitika classed as a head station for purpose of charging storage. Minimum quantity of goods to be delivered at or received from private stores and sidings reduced. Rates for conveyance of boats for use at regattas reduced. Rates for exhibits for exhibition at public museums in New Zealand reduced. PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES. Kawakawa Section. Rate for goods of Class F removed. Whangarei Section. Bate for goods of Classes P and Q from Waro to Opau for shipment altered. Rate for skidding logs at Opau inserted. Kaihu Section. Rate for goods of Class F reduced. Auckland Section. Rate for goods of Classes A, B, C, and D between Auckland, Newmarket, or Onehunga and Paeroa, and for goods of Class H, from Paeroa to Auckland, reduced. Rate for sugar, fencing-wire and materials, galvanised-iron, bar- rod- sheet- angle- and plate-iron, Auckland or Newmarket to Paeroa, reduced. Rate for goods of Class H, Rotorua to Auckland, removed. Rate for iron pipes, Auckland to Hamilton, reduced. Rates for timber from Kaukapakapa to Mount Eden, Auckland, or Onehunga Wharf reduced. Rate for timber from Papakura and Waikomiti to Auckland or Newmarket reduced. Rate for whitepine timber reduced. Goods of Classes P and Q from Kimihia Siding to be charged Id, per ton in addition to local rates. Rate for coke, Auckland to Onehunga, removed. Rate for pig-iron, Auckland to Onehunga, removed. Rate for bar- and sheet-iron, iron castings, and tram-rails, Onehunga to Auckland, removed. Rate for tallow, Mount Eden to Westtield, reduced. Rate for gas-water, Auckland to Westfield, inserted. Rate for coal-slack for lime-burning, Ac, purposes from Huntly or Kimihia to Te Kuiti, Te Aroha, or Paeroa reduced. Rate for haulage of pumice between Auckland Railway-station and Auckland Railway Wharf reduced. Rotorua District Railway : Rates removed. Napier-Taranaki Section. Rates for goods and live-stock hauled between the Napier Harbour Board's line at Spit and the railway-station at Spit inserted. Rate for logs from stations in bush districts to sawmills removed. Rate for white-pine timber for local use reduced. Rate for coke reduced. Rate for coal between Wanganui and Aramoho reduced. New Plymouth Breakwater Line : Charge for small lots reduced. LO— D. 2.

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