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distance by the shorter route. Return tickets between Napier and Te Aro made available for two months. Commutation tickets between Westport and stations on the Waimangaroa Branch line issued at reduced rates. Flax, native, dressed, pressed, Kawakawa to Opua, reduced from Class A to Class D. Carts, drays, carriages, and wagons, Whangarei Section, minimum charge reduced. A, B, C, D goods, Auckland or Newmarket to Oxford, rate reduced. Sulphur from Oxford, reduced. A, B, C, D goods ex ships from ports beyond Kaipara Heads, Helensville to Auckland, reduced. Wool, undumped, Te Aroha Branch to Auckland, reduced. Coal, Kimihia to Cambridge and Te Aroha, reduced. Coal-dross, fireclay, and bricks, Huntly, Kimihia, and Miranda to Auckland, reduced. Timber, Hunua to Auckland, reduced. Pig-iron, Auckland to Onehunga, reduced. Milk to Newmarket, rate reduced. Timber to Mount Eden, reduced. Timber, Kanohi and Kaukapakapa to Mount Eden and Auckland, reduced. Red-pine timber for export, rate reduced. Live-stock between Napier and Wanganui Sections, reduced. Cement, bridge-iron, and waterworks plant in 5-ton lots, Foxton to Palmerston, reduced. Hides, Patea to Wanganui, for export, reduced. Butter in 4-ton lots, Taranaki Station to Wellington, minimum rate reduced. Cement, Foxton to Longburn, reduced. Red-pine for New Zealand ports, rate reduced. Wool, Mangamahoe, Opaki, and intermediate stations to Wellington, reduced. Cased meats and wool, Petone to Wellington, reduced. Cattle and sheep, Wellington and Manawatu Company's Wellington Station to Kaiwarra, Ngahauranga, and Petone, reduced. Timber, Para to Koromiko, reduced. Wool, Belgrove to Nelson or Port, reduced. Bark-extract in casks, rate reduced. Native coal ■ and minerals, Waimangaroa Branch to Westport, reduced; rate on coal, Ngakawau to Westport, reduced. Coke to Greymouth for export beyond New Zealand, minimum reduced. Rate for mixed consignments of minerals of different classes reduced. Firewood : Maximum load of truck increased from sto 6 tons; rates for distances over seven miles reduced. Goods of Class 0 reduced, viz. : Ballast, ship's ; boulders ; bricks, native ; clay, native; coaldross ; coal-refuse; gravel; lime (gas-refuse); lime from local kilns for agricultural purposes and to ship for export; lime for cement-making; limestone metal, road; ores—copper, iron, and other ; manures, animal; pipes, unglazed ; earthenware, flangeless drain, up to 6 in. in diameter ; sand ; scoria ; shingle. Timber from Southland mills to Winchester and Orari, reduced. A, B, C, D goods, Dunedin and Port Chalmers to Oamaru, reduced. Soda crystals and refined tallow, Westfield to Auckland, reduced. Coke, Auckland and Onehunga to Huntly, and native bituminous coal, Onehunga to Huntly, rate reduced. Sugar, fencing-wire, and iron, Auckland and Newmarket to Te Aroha, rate reduced. A, B, C, D goods ex ships from ports beyond Kaipara Heads, wharfage reduced. Brown coal and kerosene shale, reduced. Class E goods to Napier and Spit, rate reduced. Wool, Dannevirke, Woodville, and intermediate stations to Spit, and between Farndon, Napier, and Spit, reduced. Firewood to Awatoto, rate reduced. Butter in lOcwt. lots, not for export, reduced. N and P goods, interchanged traffic with Wellington and Manawatu Company between Palmerston and Longburn, rate reduced. Wool, Feilding to Foxton, rate reduced. Wool and tallow, Longburn to Foxton, rates reduced. Limed pelts and tallow, Longburn to Foxton, rate reduced. Native coals, Foxton to Longburn, reduced. Tallow, Petone to Wellington, rate reduced. Timber for local use, rate reduced. Class E, consigned to Wellington, reduced from E and quarter to E single rate. Meat, fresh, Blenheim to Picton, rate reduced. Cement, Nelson Port to Belgrove, reduced. Coke, Ngakawau to Westport, rate reduced. Coal, Waimangaroa Branch to Waimangaroa, Farndon, and Sergeant's Hill, reduced. Coal-dross for shipment, rate reduced. Wool, Tapanui Branch to Bluff, reduced. A, B, C, D goods, Dunedin and Port Chalmers to Oamaru, further reduced. Fat, Wallacetown to Burnside, further reduced. L, M, and O goods ex Rakaia and Ashburton Forks, Duntroon, Hakateramea, and Waimea Plains Railways, reduced.