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PAET lII.—GOODS. Classified Kates. Rates for goods of Class M (Live-stock) for distances over 150 miles amended. Regulations. Scale for Small Lots of Class E Goods, &c.: Dead hares inserted. Scale for 28 lb. and 56 lb. amended. Hay, &c.: Green flax, tussock-grass, broken glass, and mining props, inserted. " Animal manures " altered to " street, stable, and farmyard manures." Number of bags of chaff to be loaded in any four-wheel truck limited to 140. Hay and straw, loose, not to be accepted for carriage. Timber: Regulation re certificate of timber measurement inserted. Live-stock: Regulation re store cattle and sheep in large mobs amended. Rate for dead hares in small quantities reduced. Goods stored upon railway land but not protected in any way by the Department will be charged half storage rates. Rates for demurrage on double-bogie trucks inserted. Regulation re not providing sheets for goods of Class X inserted. Regulation re special goods, and goods carried at owners' risk, amended. Regulation re exhibits for New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, 1896-97, inserted. Regulation re goods consigned for the Brunner Relief Fund, 1896, inserted. Free carriage of goods to operate only until the 30th April, 1896. Regulation re exhibits for Palmerston North Industrial Exhibition, 1896, inserted; since removed, on account of closing of Exhibition. PART IV.—GOODS : LOCAL RATES. Whangarei Section. Alteration of stages, consequent on opening of extension to Whakapara. Rate for goods of Classes P and Q from Ruatangata to Opau removed. Rate for sawn timber from Whakapara to Opau reduced. Kaihu Section. Rate for timber consigned toDargavillefor shipment from distances over seventeen miles reduced. Auckland Section. Rate for steel from Auckland or Newmarket to Te Aroha or Paeroa reduced. Rates for through booking with ports on the Kaipara inserted. Rate for timber from Mamaku to Te Aroha, Paeroa, and intermediate stations reduced. Rate for haulage of bricks consigned from country stations for shipment, from Auckland Railway station to Auckland Railway-wharf reduced. Double-bogie wagons hauled between the Auckland Railway-station and the Auckland Railway-wharf at Auckland, to be charged double haulage rate. Napier-Taranaki Section. Rate for firewood consigned from Woodville, &c, to Spit, Napier, &c, reduced. Special rate removed on 30th November, 1896. Rate for wool from Woodville, Matamau, and intermediate stations to Spit reduced. Rates for wool consigned from Marton, Woodville, and intermediate stations to Wellington via Foxton inserted. New Plymouth Breakwater Line: Rate for goods of Classes A, B, C, D, between New Plymouth Breakwater and Morley Street Goods Depot removed. Rate for goods of Classes A, B, C, D conveyed between New Plymouth Station and the Taranaki Freezing-works Company's siding at Moturoa reduced. Wellington Section. Rate for rimu timber from Newman to Wellington, Lower Hutt, and intermediate stations reduced. Rates for rimu timber from Eketahuna, Opaki, and intermediate stations to Kaiwarra, Lower Hutt, and intermediate stations reduced. Rate for bark in bags or bundles, Wellington Wharf to Ngahauranga, removed. Rate for coal hauled from the Railway Wharf at Wellington to the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company's station in the company's own wagons reduced. Greymouth-Brunnerton Section. Regulation re timber consigned to Greymouth by rail for export beyond the Colony of New Zealand inserted. Regulation re haulage of timber, previously carried to Greymouth by rail, from timber-drying shed to ship's side at Greymouth inserted. Greymouth-Hokitika Section. Regulation re timber consigned to Greymouth by rail for export beyond the Colony of New Zealand inserted. Westport Section. Rate for contractors' plant and permanent-way material from Westporfc to Ngakawau removed. Nelson Section. Rate for bark from Wai-iti or Wakefield to Nelson removed. Rate for bark, native birch, reduced. Picton Section, Rate for native coals ex ship at Picton amended. Rate for wool consigned to Picton amended. Rate for timber from Picton to Blenheim ex ship removed. Minimum rates for timber on Picton Section removed. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Rate for goods of Classes A, B, C, D, E consigned to Dunedin (not to private sidings) reduced. When goods of Class H are consigned to Dunedin the classified or local rates are to be increased by 5Jd. per bale, except when such goods are consigned to the Railway Wharf for shipment or to private sidings. Rate for wool from Albury to Washdyke reduced. Rate for wool from Forsyth to Dunedin and Port Chalmers reduced. Rates for wool from Clydevale, Greenfield, and Hillend Stations consigned via Balclutha to Dunedin and Port Chalmers inserted. Rates for logs, Glenomaru Tunnel to Glenomaru and Balclutha, removed. 10—D. 2.