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Stock, implements, clogs, and poultry exhibited at Agricultural Shows, and entire horses exhibited at Horse Parades : Regulation amended to provide for free conveyance back when part of consignment is sold. Regulation inserted providing for threshing-machines, chaff-cutters, and hay-presses, with engines (portable or traction), consigned to country stations for threshing, &c, and returned within one month, being conveyed back at half rates. West Coast, New Zealand, Co-operative Exhibition : Free conveyance of exhibits provided for. Hawera Exhibition: Free conveyance of exhibits provided for. Tasmanian Exhibition, Launceston : Regulation re free carriage of exhibits removed. Convalescent Home, Wellington : Contributions to Gift Auction in aid of Home to be conveyed free. PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES. Auckland Section. Terminal charge on A, 8,, C, D, and E goods at Auckland amended. Rate for goods of Class H, between Auckland or Newmarket and Onehunga Town and Wharf, reduced. Rates for A, B, C, and D goods, Te Aroha to Auckland and Newmarket, and rates for A, B, C, and D goods between Onehunga and Te Aroha, reduced. Rate of £4 10s. per ton for Classes A, B, C, and D, Auckland or Newmarket to Oxford or Putaruru for Rotorua, removed. Rates for timber, Kanohi to Auckland and Onehunga Wharf, reduced. Rate for white-pine, Whangarata to Newmarket or Auckland, reduced. Rate for timber, Auckland to Tarukenga, reduced. Rate for timber, Auckland to Oxford for Rotorua, removed (line opened to Tarukenga). Rate for sulphur, Oxford to Westfield or Auckland, reduced. Rate for sulphur, Tarukenga to Westfield or Auckland, reduced. Rate for sulphur, Oxford to Westfield or Auckland, removed (line opened to Tarukenga). Rate for sheet-iron and tram-rails, Onehunga to Auckland, reduced. Rate for bone-dust, manure, &c, over Rotorua District Railway reduced. Napier-Taranaki Section. Rates for goods of Class D reduced. Rates for rock-salt, and salt for agricultural purposes, reduced. Rate for soap, Awatoto to Napier or Spit, removed. Rate for goods of Classes A, B, C, and D, between the New Plymouth Breakwater and New Plymouth Station, reduced. Napier-Taranaki and Wellington Sections. Minimum quantity per truck of dead meat, consigned by way of Manawatu Railway Company's line to Wellington, or to stations on the Wellington Section, inserted. Wellington Section. Rates for goods, of Class D reduced. Rate for potatoes, Lower Hutt to Wellington, removed. Rates for rock-salt, and salt for agricultural purposes, reduced. Greymouth-Brunnerton Section. Rate for clay and bricks, Brunnerton sidings to Greymouth, to include weighing. Rate for timber, Dobson to Greymouth, reduced. Shuuting-rate for slack between Brunnerton and Wallsend inserted. Rate for coal for Greymouth, from Blackball Coal Company's line, reduced. Greymouth-Hokitika Section. Local rates inserted. Rate on beer in bulk, Hokitika to Greymouth, reduced. Nelson Section. Bark extract, regulation removed. Rate for bark, native, Wai-iti to Nelson, reduced. Picton Section. Rate for timber from Mount Pleasant, &c, removed. Rate for timber, Picton to Blenheim, ex ship, reduced. Hitrunuir-Bluff Section. Rate for ships' goods, Classes A, B, C, and D, Timaru and Bluff, inserted. Rate for ships' goods, Oamaru to Port Chalmers, removed. Terminal charge of Is. 2d. per ton on goods of classes A, B, C, D, and E, at Dunedin, not to be made when goods are consigned to the Railway Wharf for shipment in vessels lying there. Class H, Wool, &c.: Rates from stations on the Waimate District Railway to Timaru, Oamaru, and Breakwater, reduced. Class X, Timber : Rate, Buccleugh to Tinwald and Ashburton, reduced. Rate, Rangitata to Ashburton, Timaru, and intermediate stations, reduced. Ships' ballast, Hornby to Lyttelton, rate removed. Rate for pelts, Maheno to Woolston, reduced. Charge for goods landed for Customs examination at Lyttelton removed. Rate for tallow, Washdyke to Dunedin, reduced.