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RETURN NO. 32. Statement of Alterations in and Additions to Scale of Charges during the Year ended 31st March, 1913. PART L—PASSENGERS. General Fares and Regulations. Volunteer tickets : Regulation cancelled. Official season tickets : Regulation cancelled. Special trains for Government Departments : Regulation cancelled. Ordinary tickets : Clause re completion of journey by first available train after date of expiry when no train running on that day removed. Alternative routes : Regulation amended so as to exclude sectional season tickets. Booking fee : Regulation amended in order to provide foi children under twelve years of age being charged half-rates. Family season tickets : Regulation amended. Reserved carriages : Regulation amended in order to provide for compartment being reserved for Judges and members of the Arbitration Court. Excursion trains : Regulation amended. Concession tickets : Clause inserted providing for the purchase of concession tickets half an hour before the departure of train by which they are intended to be used. Local Fares and Regulations. Workers' weekly tickets to apply from Napier to Hastings. Kawakawa Section : Regulations removed. Auckland Section : Regulation re conveyance of funerals from Auckland, Newmarket, and Mount Eden to Waikumete Cemetery removed. PART lI.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC. Luggage : Regulation inserted providing for checking of passengers' luggage for the rail journey between officered stations on the North and South Island main lines and branches, including the journey by ferry steamers between Wellington and Lyttelton. Theatrical companies' luggage: Regulation amended. Bicycles: Regulation amended. Coin, bullion, &c. : New rates provided for the conveyance at railway risk and when accompanied by passengers. Horses : Double rates to be charged on each horse where a Ug wagon is ordered for conveyance of horses by ordinary trains and not fully loaded. Motor-cars : Regulation inserted for conveyance of motor wagons and buses and motors not to be accepted for carriage by rail when charged with any inflammable liquid. Dogs: Regulation amended. Funerals from Auckland, Newmarket, and Mount Eden to Waikumete Cemetery : Charges inserted for carriage of corpses. Whangarei Section : Local rates removed. PART ILL—GOODS REGULATIONS. Class F : Charges inserted for four-wheeled wagons (La excepted) loaded up to the limit where the carrying-capacity is marked thereon. Private stores and sidings : Clause re weight of goods delivered at and received from private sidings amended. PART IV. -GOODS: LOCAL RATES. Kaihu Section — Rate inserted on timber from Taita to Dargaville. Auckland District — New schedule of rates provided'for through booking of goods between stations in the Auckland District and ports on the Manakau Harbour. Rate inserted for timber from Wimiha to Mount Eden, Auckland, Onehunga Wharf, and intermediate stations. Gisborne Section — Rate, on white-pine timber from Te Karaka to Gisborne provided. Westland Section — Rate provided for timber hauled between Hokitika Station and the timber-skids for local delivery or for shipment at Hokitika. Rates inserted on coal from Stillwater to Greymoutti. Rates inserted on coke from Granity to Westport. South Island main line and branches — Rate on pelts from Fairfield to Woolston, Pareora, and Belfast, and from Pareora to Belfast and Woolston, removed. Rate on fat from Mataura to Wallace town removed. Charges on goods between Invercargill Jetty and Railway-station removed. Rate on bricks, tiles, and clay from Buxton's to Invercargill removed.