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Rate for ships' goods between Spit and Napier reduced to 2s. per ton. Coal between Spit and Napier to be charged as Class O. Class L goods: Special rates to Napier and Spit gazetted. Wellington Section. Gas-pipes and plant, cast-iron water-pipes, and permanent way (railway) material to be charged at classified rates for Class D. Wanganui Section. Gas-pipes a,nd plant and permanent way (railway) material excepted from regulation about charging Class D goods as Class C. New Plymouth. Breakwater Line : Bates revised. Local regulations under Classes E and K made applicable to New Plymouth Breakwater. Classes A, B, C, D, E —Goods and wool between Palmerston and Longburn booked between Pahnerston and stations on the Wellington-Manawatu Railway. Adoption of local rates. Pic ton Section. Through rates established between stations on Picton line and ports of Wellington and Nelson. Rates revised generally. Greymouih Section. Grey Gorge Bridge : Goods' toll cancelled. Rate of 3s. 6d. per ton gazetted for railway plant and material in full truck-loads, Greymouth to Brunnerton. ■ Hurunuifßluff Section. A, B, C, D Ships' goods: Rate between Port Chalmers, Dunedin, and Oamaru increased to 15s. Local rate between Port Chalmers, Dunedin, and Bluff inserted; minimum quantity subsequently increased from 5 to 10 cwt. Revision of rates between Oamaru and Breakwater. New rate for fat, West Plains to Dunedin. Coal refuse, Stirling to Millburn : Local regulation removed. Special rates for bricks and tiles, Longbush and McCalhim's to Invercargill, cancelled. Duntroon and Hakateramea and Rakaia and Ashburton Forks District Railways: Class E reduced to 2d. per ton per mile. Dross, kerosene shale, fireclay, and bricks : Rate from Fernhill, Walton Park, Abbotsford, and Green Island to Dunedin and Pelichet Bay cancelled. Lime from local kilns : Local rate extended ; regulation afterwards rescinded ; brought under Class 0. A, B, C, D Goods on branch lines : Additional charge of Id. per ton leviable on line, Invercargill to Waimatua. Colonial and Indian Exhibition : Regulation regarding free carriage of exhibits removed. Native Coal, &c, Milton, to Dunedin and Pelichet Bay : New rate. Sulphuric acid in 5-ton lots : Local regulation cancelled. Alteration of cartage charges at Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill, and local rates to those places from port stations. Goods for transhipment at Lyttelton : New regulation. Special rate adopted for bark, Port Chalmers to Sawyer's Bay. Waimea Plains District Railway : Local and through rates put into operation. Local rates gazetted for native brown coal from Mount Somers Colliery. PART V.—CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS. Acid, sulphuric, packed, consigned direct from local factories, in consignments of not less than 5 tons. —Owners'risk. Dangerous ... ... ... A Ber.wvcd. Antimony ore.—Owners' risk ... ... ... ... ... ... N Apple blight mixture, packed ... ... . . ... ... ... B Butter tins, casks, cases and tubs, empty not " returned empties." Half rate ... A Butter boxes in pieces, packed in crates, not "returned empties." Half rate ... B Bricks, native produce.—Owners'risk ... ... ... ... ... O Cement, manufactured from colonial products and consigned from local manufactories. —Owners'risk. Rate and a half ... ... ... ... N Chimneypots. Owners' risk ... .. ... ... ... ... C Charcoal. —Rate and a half. Owners' risk ... ... ... ... ... N Clay, Native produce.—Owners'risk ... ... ... ... ... O Coal dross. Owners'risk ... ... ... ... - ... ... O Coal refuse. —Owners'risk ... ... ... ... ... ... O Copper ore.—Owners'risk ... ... ... ... ... ... O Bemoved. Drainpipes.—Owners'risk ... ... ... ... ... ... N Earthenware, native packed, consigned direct from local factories, in lots of not less than 30cwt. —Half rate ... ... ... ... ... ... B Explosive materials.—See exceptions which will not be carried. Flower-pots, packed ... ... ... ... ... ... ... C Fruit, fresh, packed. —Owners' risk ... ... ... ... ... D Iron, scrap ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... P xi— D. la.