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RETURN No. 31. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Showing Mileage of Track in Main Line and Sidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1903, on the Hurunui-Bluff Railway and Branches.

RETURN No. 32. Statement of Alterations in and Additions to Scale of Charges during the Year ended 31st March, 1903.

PART I.—PASSENGERS. General Fares and Regulations. General reduction in ordinary tickets over fifty miles. Holiday-excursion tickets : Regulation extended, re issue to jockeys and trainers accompanying race-horses, and to exhibitors or attendants in charge of show exhibits, a week before general issue in connection with respective events. Workers' commutation tickets : Regulation inserted—" Holders to be charged full ordinary fare if travelling first class." Newspaper reporters' tickets : Regulation inserted re newspapers furnishing signatures of those authorised to issue certificates. Newsboys' tickets: Regulation inserted— : " Maximum weight of books, periodicals, and news papers catried free, 561b." School season-tickets : Free issue extended to pupils not exceeding nineteen . years of age attending district, high, or secondary schools, as defined by "The Manual and Technical Instruction Act, 1900," that have passed the Sixth Standard, or are holders of scholarships, exhibitions, or free places at such schools. School, factory, and friendly societies' fares: Reduced fares inserted for distances thirteen to twenty miles. Maoris special tickets to Native gatherings : Regulation extended to include Maori Councils. Theatrical, concert, and circus parties : Regulation slightly amended.

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lain Line. Sidings. Total Equivalen' of Single Track. Line of Railway. Branches* Total Railway. Main Line. I Branches. Total. Single. Double. Ohbibtohuboh Division: — Main Line Rangiora-Sheffield and Eyreton Junction-Bennett's Waipara-Scargill ... Southbridge and Little River Branches Springfield and Whitecliffs Branches [Branch Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch M. ch. 211 57 M. ch. 6 28 M. ch. M. ch. 218 5 M. ch. 72 60 M. ch. M. ch. 72 60 M. ch. 290 65 58 16 53 56 4 40 14 40 48 7 1 2 5 49 15 42 53 56 47 4 ■262 3 5 o -25 64 52 4 22 20 27 36 36 13 12 67 2 70 1 70 2 57 2 16 25 10 29 26 38 70 15 3 Totals, Cliristehurch Division 211 57 6 28 262 3 480 8 72 60 25 64 98 44 578 52 Dunedin Division: — Main Line Duntroon Branch ... Oamarti-B reakwater B ranch NgaparacfcLivingston Branches Shag Point Branch ... Waihemo Branch ... Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch Fernhill Branch Otago Central Railway Outram Branch Lawrence Branch ... Catlin's River Branch 165 40 37 4i 0 63 27 4 2 10 8 65 1 26 165 40 -230 15 56 55 I 2 75 o 25 2 5 o 14 o 63 3 65 o 52 o 23 6 17 0 65 1 67 v 1 57 56 55 222 15 / 40 36 1 8 29 9 2 24 9 48 I 5 11 3 21 2 o 104 9 9 65 23 68 \ 2. 4 2 49 1 57 97 72 9 o 22 1 19 27 V21 48 Totals, Dunedin Division ... 165 40 230 15 395 55 56 55 21 48 78 23 473 78 iNVERCAKGlJ.T. DIVISION : — Main Line Tapanui Branch Waimea Plains Branch Wyndhtini Branch ... Seaward Bush Brunch Kingston Branch Makarewa-Orepuki Branch ... Thornbury-Wairio and WairioNightcaps Branches Forest Hill Railway Lumsden-Mararoa Branch ... 82 41 20 4 36 41 9 35 25 39 87 o 35 52 24 5i 82 41 20 65 2 4 2 73 o 45 2 o 8 35 5 5 2 76 20 65 103 26 ; 22 8 39 34 10 0 27 39 J 95 35 \ 4o 57 27 47 .262 9 ;-2 5 7 8 12 66 0 77 1 3 13 63 V 11 44 10 41 Totals, invercargill Division 82 41 262 9 344 5° 20 65 25 78 46 63 391 33 Grand Totals—Whole Line 459 58 6 28 '54 27 1,220 150 20 '3 22; I 1