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Local Fares and Regulations. Kawakawa Section. Local passenger-fares reduced. Kaihu Section. Special local fares abolished. Auckland Section. Round-trip tickets reduced ; fares and workers' weekly tickets between Newmarket, Auckland, and Mount Eden and New Lynn, Waikumete, and Henderson inserted on extension of suburban area. Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth Section. Fares between Goods Depot and Moturoa and Breakwater removed. Westport Section. Rates for season and school season tickets between stations, and those on Waimangaroa Branch inserted. Picton Section. Single fare reduced for through booking b.tween Wellington and Blenheim. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Through booking between Dunedin and Portobello inserted, fares to Hanmer Springs and Mount Cook reduced, Tuesday and Friday Oamaru-Dunedin fares inserted, Invercargill to Bluff and Ocean Beach Wednesday fares removed. The through tickets to Queenstown, Cold Lakes, and Otago Central round-trip tickets have twice been reduced—once at general reduction, and once on reduction of Lake Wakatipu steamer fares when steamers first came into hands of the Government. PART lI.—PARCELS, HORSES, ETC. Bicycles, tricycles, &c. : Regulation inserted saving Department from liability for delay or loss unless fully and legibly addressed, and handed in ten minutes before advertised time of train's departure. Bicycle crates : Rate reduced from 6d. to 3d. Horses: Rates inserted for horses carried by double-bogie trucks on mail and express trains. Free carriage of Volunteers' horses returning from military sports, and half-rates for ponies up to 14 hands inserted. Motor cars : Rates inserted. Mushrooms and New-Zealand-grown nuts classed as New Zealand fresh fruit. Stud stock for breeding purposes : Time of return extended to three months for all stock, and regulation inserted excluding stallions on circuit from free travel. Milk-cans, empty returns: Regulation inserted re free carriage solely at owners' risk, who must do all loading and unloading. PART lII.—GOODS : CLASSIFIED RATES. Wool, sheepskins, Ac, in bales : General reductions in Class H rates. GOODS: REGULATIONS. Cartage rate, 3d., for perishable parcels instituted at Wellington, and afterwards abolished. Manures : Minimum at Class E reduced. Mushrooms and New-Zealand-grown nuts in small lots classed as New Zealand fruit. Vegetable-marrows in truck-loads charged Class F. Furniture in furniture-vans : Regulation inserted. Mails, rates for trucks of, by express train inserted. Tarpaulins not to be provided for Class M goods, and regulation inserted for free return of private tarpaulins. Stud and Show stock : Rates for valuable stock inserted. Time for free return for stud stock -extended to three months. Cement imported : Reduced rates for lots of 2 tons and over. Tar for local bodies, Class N : Minimum, 5 tons inserted. Drovers travelling by goods train to sign indemnity. Circuses : Mileage rate per truck for material reduced. La wagons: Minimums provided for Classes F and Q, and general regulation inserted. Exhibitions : Regulations re Canterbury .Tubilee Exhibition and Western Australian Exhibition removed. Regulation re free carriage of exhibits to Feilding Industrial Exhibition inserted. PART IV.—GOODS : LOCAL RATES. Kaioakawa Section. General reduction of goods rates. Timber, regulations re unloading of, at Opua inserted. Whangarei Section. Log timbeir, Whakapara to Opau: Is. Id. per 100 superficial feet inserted. Kaihu Section. Local rates abolished re goods of Classes A, B, C, D, E, and H, and re Class P being charged as Class N. Auckland Section. Cartage terminal rate, Auckland, increased from Is. 6d. to 2s. 2d. per ton (contract price increase).

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