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RETURN No. 31. Statement of Alterations effected in and Additions made to the Scale of Charges during the Year ending 31st March, 1887. PART I.—PASSENGERS. Apprentices' and pupil-teachers' season tickets, and school season tickets : Form of certificate added. Local Fabes and Regulations. Whangarei Section. Fares to and from Mair inserted. Auckland Section. New regulation between Auckland and Newmarket and Auckland and Bemuera. Napier Section. Saturday return tickets issuable daily between Spit, Napier, or Hastings and intermediate stations. PART lI.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC. Reduction of cartage charge on parcels at Auckland. Adoption of parcel rates for 841b., and alteration in 31b. and 71b. parcel rates for 125 and 150 miles. Small animals and poultry : Regulation amended. Perambulators conveyed as passengers' luggage : New regulation. Adoption of regulation regarding packed parcels for distribution at destination. Reduction of parcels rates for long distances. Additional charge levied on parcels consigned to Invercargill, and reduced charge on parcels consigned to Auckland and Dunedin. PART lII.—GOODS. Classified Bates. Reduction of Class B rates after 252 miles. Class P : Rates lowered from 9 to 14 miles inclusive. REGULATIONS. Classes F, H, K : Amendment of regulation regarding loading and unloading. Class K : Method of charging odd lengths in inches explained. Class M : New regulation about small animals in crates, &c. Class N : Sand removed from regulation under Class N. Class P : 2s. rate on bricks, &c, for 9 mile distances and under cancelled. Class 0 : New regulation. Demurrage regulation about trucks at coal-pits extended to sand- and ballast-pits and limekilns. Weighing : Truck-load regulation amended. Parcels for distribution at destination : Adoption of new regulation. PART IV.— LOCAL RATES. Whangarei Section. Ironstone from coal mines to railway wharf: Special rate adopted. Reduced rate on coal from mines to ship in lots of 2,000 tons per month or 24,000 tons per annum. Auckland Section. Gas-pipes and plant for local bodies : Excepted from regulation about charging Class D goods as C. Afterwards struck out, as local regulation removed. Regulation about charging Class D goods as Class C cancelled. A, B, C, and D goods consigned to Auckland : Alteration of cartage terminal. Through rates to Kaipara ports reinstated. Removal of special rates between Auckland, Onehunga, and Waikato stations on A, B, C, D, and E goods. Special rates gazetted between Auckland, Onehunga, and Te Aroha for A, B, C, and D goods. Local demurrage charge on coal-trucks cancelled. Charging goods of Class E rate and a quarter abolished. Special rate made for bricks from Hunt's siding to Onehunga. Afterwards cancelled. Brick rate from Hunt's siding to Auckland cancelled. Cancellation of rough-stone rate from Tuakau to Auckland. Sleepers from Auckland Railway Wharf: Special charge struck out. Timber from Lichfield to Auckland to be charged classified rates on continuous mileage. Napier Section. Gas-pipes and plant, cast-iron water-pipes, and permanent way (railway) material excepted from regulation about charging Class D goods as Class C.