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receiving, and delivering goods. The company's trains shall be taken charge of on arrival at Greymouth, and shall be made up for despatch thence by the Commissioners' staff, the company's engine assisting when required. 10. The company shall not carry on the Government railway any traffic originating and terminating upon the Government railway. 11. Time-tables for the company's trains running on the Government railway must be subject to the Commissioners' approval, they must be so arranged as not to interfere with the Commissioners' trains and traffic. 12. Demurrage will be charged on the Commissioners' wagons detained beyond the prescribed time, 4s. a day or part thereof for each wagon. Full demurrage collected by the Commissioners on account of the company's wagons shall be paid to the company 13. The company will be charged J-d. per mile for the Commissioners' sheets when in use, such sheets will be subject to the same conditions for return as the Commissioners' wagons. No charge will be made on sheets for the return journey when not in use. 14. Demurrage on the Commissioners' sheets will be charged at the rate of Is. per day Full demurrage collected by the Commissioners on account of the company's sheets shall be paid to the company 15. Sundays, and days when goods-traffic is suspended, must not be counted in computing demurrage. 16. The company's officers shall act under the instructions issued from time to time by the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, or any person acting on their behalf, in accounting for and dealing with all interchanged traffic, and shall render such returns to the Eailway Accountant, New Zealand Government Eailways, as may be required by such instructions. 17 The Commissioners shall be responsible for causing to be collected from the consignees or other persons all proper charges on behalf of the company which the company is legally entitled to charge and collect for goods and passengers which have passed over the railway which charges may have been properly way-billed and otherwise notified by the company's officers to the receivingstations on the Government railway, in accordance with the by-laws and other instructions in operation on the New Zealand Government "railways. 18. The company shall, similarly be responsible for collecting the Commissioners' railwaycharges on through goods and passengers. 19. All the company's servants entering and using the Government railways shall be subject to the instructions and obey the orders of the officers of the Commissioners while thereon and the company shall not at any time allow any of its servants to enter on the Government railway if forbidden by the Commissioners' officers, and all the officers of the Commissioners entering and using tiie company's railway shall be subject to the instructions and obey the orders of the officers of the company while thereon , and the Commissioners shall not at any time allow any of their servants to enter on the company's railway if forbidden by the company's officers. 20. The Commissioners shall cause the accounts for interchanged traffic to be compiled and audited for each four weeks or thereabouts, in accordance with the practice on the New Zealand Government railways, and shall cause accounts to be rendered to the company within four weeks or thereabouts after the close of each accounting-period , and there shall be a settlement of account as between the Government railway and the company's railway by cash-payment of the balance due from one to the other respectively as may be ascertained from such audited account. 21. The company shall permit any officer duly appointed by the Commissioners to examine any traffic accounts on its railway if necessary for accounting and auditing purposes, and similarly the Commissioners shall permit any duly-appointed officer of the company to examine any traffic accounts of the Government railway relating to traffic interchanged with the company's railway 22. The rates, fares, and charges for the conveyance of all passengers, parcels, and goods upon the company's railway shall be fixed by the company 23. The company shall supply the Commissioners with schedules of such rates, fares, and charges in the forms attached, and the Commissioners will cause the same to be gazetted. All such rates, fares, and charges to be used subject to the general regulations in operation on the New Zealand Government railways. Such rates, fares, and charges will be in addition to the rates, fares, and charges which are made by the Commissioners for the conveyance of passengers and goods, and the transactions in connection therewith, upon the Government railway unless otherwise specified. 24. For passengers and goods hauled by the company over the Government railway the company shall receive, in addition to the rates charged upon the company's railway, 40 per cent, of the mileage rates charged by the Commissioners on the Government railway Such mileage rates will be arrived at by deducting from the rates for the Government railway, as published in the New Zealand Gazette from time to time under the seal of the Commissioners, the following sums by way of terminal charges—namely, 2d. per passenger, 2s. per ton, Classes A, B, C, D, E, H, Is. per ton, Classes F, E, L, ss. per truck, Class M 9d. per ton, Classes N, Q. Such terminal charges will be retained by the Commissioners. The following exceptions will be made to the aforesaid division For parcels hauled by the company over the Government line, the Commissioners will retain 3d. for each parcel not over 141b., 4d. for each not over 281b. sd. for each not over 561b. 6d. for each not over 841b., Bd. for each not over 1121b. The balance of parcel-rates shall be apportioned to the company Three shillings a truck will be charged by the Commissioners for coal for locomotive purposes for the company's use, taken delivery of by the company at Brunner carried to the company's stations the charge payable to the Commissioners by the company for all' other coal taken from Brunner by the company to stations on the company's railway will be Is. per ton.