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Goons Carried Free. New Zealand. Lime lor manuring farm lands. Empty fruit-cases, and shooks for manufacture of fruit-eases. Empty butter, egg, tish. fresh-meat, fruit, vegetable, mushroom, and nut packages. Boats for regattas. Seeds returned from Beed-cleaning establishments. Starving stock, and fodder lor starving stock. Show stock. Stud stock for breeding purposes. Polo-ponies and hounds. Racehorses returned from shows and races. Volunteer horses. Homing-pigeons. Empty return milk and cream cans. Motor-car and carriage covers. Fish-food, ova. fish, game, and deer lor acclimatization societies. Trees and shrubs consigned to Public Domain Hoards for planting. Perambulators. New South Wales. Live-stock, implements and exhibits unsold returning from shows. Samples of wool for Department of Agriculture to country shows. Collapsible poultry-coops for exhibition. Hags (second-hand empty ore-) to country stations, to bo tilled, and returned by rail. Bagging (returned) which lias been used to protect butter in transit by rail from Inverell to Newcastle or Darling Harbour. Cases (fruit-), butter-boxes (including lining-paper for packing butter in each box), and butter-kegs when sent to be tilled and returned by rail. Crates sent to the country to be tilled and returned by rail with rabbits and hares (dead). Crates (empty, new or second-hand) measuring not more than 8 cub. ft., to country stations to be filled and returned by rail. Drums (empty steel) not exceeding 10 gallons capacity, returned to the country to be rilled with eucalyptus-oil that will be carried by rail. [free returns will be granted in the following cases : — Bags : Coke, cement, ore bags or bagging, and bona fide single bags. Bags which have been used to convey ice. Bagging used to protect flour or pipes in transit by rail. Baskets (fish). Buckets (raspberry fruit). Butter-kegs. Cans (milk and cream). Crates or cases measuring not more than 8 cub. ft. Coops ~ Crates taken to pieces (including shooks and staves) and made up in bundles. Crates used to convey bricks. Grass rope and bolsters for packing iron pipes to country water-supplies. Hessian used in louvred vans conveying rabbits. Packing used to protect furniture in transit by rail. Pieces of tobacco-boxes (in bundles). Tins, whether loose, or packed in cases measuring not more than 8 cub. ft. Tins, biscuit and flour, in cases measuring not more than 8 cub. ft.

25 50 100 200 300 400 500 M Lies. New Zealand. New South Wales. Victoria. Additional Additional Additional First Charge First Charge First Charge Horse. for Second ; Horse. for Second Horse. for Second Horse. Horse. Horse. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 12 5 8 6 12 6 6 3 12 6 6 3 18 8 12 S 25 0 12 6 25 0 12 6 31 2 21 0 50 0 25 0 50 0 25 0 56 2 37 8 95 0 47 6 100 o 50 0 81 2 51 I 128 4 64 2 150 0 75 0 106 2 71 0 161 8 SO 10 200 o 100 0 131 2 87 8 195 0 97 <> 250 0 i 125 0 Victoria. 1 I South Australia. Additional First Charge Horse. for Second Horse. s. d. s. <|. 12 6 8 4 25 0 16 8 50 0 33 I 91 8 58 1 125 o 75 0 158 I 91 8 191 8 108 4