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Store sheep and cattle in mobs, rate for 100 miles and upwards reduced, Sheep in double-floored trucks, rate reduced 20 per cent. Scoria and road-metal in 10-ton lots consigned to public bodies, rate for distances over thirteen miles reduced. Timber for shipment at Dargaville and logs skidded at Dargaville, rates reduced. A, B, C, D, and E goods consigned to private sidings in Auckland, reduced. Timber, Kanohi to Mount Eden, reduced. Coke, Auckland to Onehunga, reduced. Earthenware empties and materials for manufacture of sulphuric acid, between Onehunga, Auckland, and Westfield, reduced. Wool, Rotorua to Auckland, reduced. Tinned fish ex ship, Helensville to Auckland, reduced. Butter and cheese to Wellington via Wellington and Manawatu Railway, maximum rate reduced. Log timber from bush districts to sawmills, reduced. White-pine timber for manufacture of casks and boxes for carriage of dairy produce and tallow, rate reduced. Coke for lime-burning, Masterton to Mauriceville, reduced. Coal-dross, Wellington to Mauriceville, reduced. Timber to Lower Hutt, Ngahauranga, and Kaiwarra, reduced. Red-pine, Eketahuna, Opaki, and intermediate stations, and from Booth's Siding to Wellington, reduced. White-pine for manufacture of casks and cases for conveyance of dairy produce and tallow, reduced. Native coal (gas), Wellington to Petone, reduced. Lime, except for agricultural purposes and cement-making, reduced. Meat, fresh, to Picton, reduced. Coal from Cardiff, rate reduced. Coal and coal-dross for local use at Westport, reduced. Timber for export, rate reduced. Timber, haulage, Greymouth to ships, reduced. Timber from Hokitika line to Greymouth for export, reduced. Hides, tallow, and sheepskins, Hokitika to Greymouth, reduced. Blackball coal for local use at Greymouth, reduced. A, B, C, D goods, Oamaru to Port Chalmers and Dunedin, reduced. Fat, Mataura to Wallacetown, reduced. Gravel, Menlove's Siding to Oamaru, reduced. Quarry refuse and rough stone, Sawyer's Bay to Port Chalmers, reduced. Wool, undumped, Kurow and Hakateramea to Oamaru and Breakwater, Hyde to Dunedin or Port Chalmers, Springfield to Whitecliffs Branches to Christchurch and Lyttelton, and Fairlie Branch to Timaru, reduced. Pelts, Refrigerating Siding to Islington, reduced. Stone, rough, and stone piles, for distances over fifty-one miles, reduced. Stone and stone piles, Oamaru, Maheno, and intermediate stations to Dunedin and Port Chalmers, reduced. White-pine for manufacture of casks and boxes for export of dairy produce and tallow, reduced. Mining plant, A, B, C, D, exempted from extra charge on district railways and branch lines. Ballast in 200-ton lots, Bluff to Inveroargill, reduced. Goods between Dunedin and Burkes, reduced. Wool, Washdyke and Timaru Refrigerating Siding to Timaru, reduced. Timber from sawmills in Southland to Dunedin, Orari, and intermediate stations, reduced. A and B goods, Dunedin to Milton, Balclutha, Waitahuna, and Lawrence, reduced. Rates for game, dead rabbits, frash fish, in packages not exceeding 281b., reduced. Milk for cheese-making consigned to cheese-factories, rate reduced. Commercial travellers' luggage arriving by train or sent to stations for despatch by train granted free storage for eighteen hours. Parcels : Rates for distances over 100 miles reduced. Fresh fruit and vegetables, New-Zealand-grown, rate reduced. Milk for ordinary consumption, rate reduced. Left-luggage storage, charge reduced. Milk to butter-factories and to creameries from stations distant over fifty-five miles, rate reduced. Fuze : Rate for packages up to 14 lb. in weight reduced. Polo-ponies sent in cattle-trucks, rate reduced. Library exchanges, rates reduced. Class F, chaff, hay, firewood, &c, for distances eight to twelve miles and over thirty miles, reduced. Penal charge for overloading trucks with Class F goods reduced. 'Game, dead rabbits, and fresh fish in packages not exceeding 281b., rates reduced. New Zealand coal for export beyond the colony, rate reduced. Seeds for agricultural purposes returning from seed-cleaning establishments carried free. Timber in small lots, reduced. Fresh fruit and vegetables, New-Zealand-grown, in packages of 56 lb., rates reduced.