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Timber, Mamaku to Paeroa, Te Aroha, and intermediate stations, reduced. Firewood, Woodville, Pirpiri, and intermediate stations to Hastings, Spit, and intermediate stations, reduced. A, B, C, D goods, New Plymouth and Motorua, reduced. Wool, Woodville, Matamau, and intermediate stations to Spit, and from Marton, Woodville, and intermediate stations to Wellington, vid Foxton, reduced. Red-pine, Newman, Opaki, and intermediate stations to Wellington, Lower Hutt, and intermediate stations, reduced. „ Coal for use by Wellington and Manawatu Company hauled in company's own wagons from Wellington Wharf to Exchange Siding, reduced. Wool to Picton, rate reduced. / Bark, native birch, rate reduced. White-lead and other materials for manufacture of earthenware, Dunedin and Port Chalmers to Benhar, reduced. A, B, C, D, E goods to Dunedin, reduced. E Class goods between Burnside and Cattle-yards and Dunedin, reduced. Wool, Albury to Washdyke, Forsyth to Dunedin or Port Chalmers, and Clydevale, Greenfield, and Hillend to Dunedin or Port Chalmers (by steam and rail), and Capburn, Kokonga, to Dunedin and Port Chalmers, reduced. Wickerware and wire- and spring-mattrasses, reduced. Stone and stone piles, rough, Weston to Port Chalmers or Dunedin, reduced. Small lots of goods on district railways, rate reduced to Government scale. Paper-bags from local paper-mills, reduced. Firewood, Owaka, Glenomaru, to Abbotsford, Pelichet Bay, and intermediate stations, reduced. Branch charge of Id. per ton on A, B, C, D goods abolished. Petroleum, native, crude, Dunedin or Port Chalmers to Balclutha, reduced. Passengers' luggage: Regulation amended to permit of any articles not exceeding 112 lb. in weight purchased for domestic use (furniture excepted) being carried free instead of as excess luggage. Workpeople allowed to carry up to 112 lb. of work and work-tools free of charge. Parcels rates reduced. Cartridges, safety small-arm, reduced from double to single parcels rate. Carriages: Rate for every carriage after the first from and to one consignor reduced. Rate for old carriages exchanged for new, for carriages on loan, or for use while others are sent for repair, reduced. Special charge for sending a messenger in charge of special goods abolished. Homing pigeons and crates in connection with pigeon-flying clubs carried free. Commercial travellers representing bicycle agencies allowed to carry with their luggage two sample bicycles free of charge, provided aggregate weight is not over 112 lb. Bicycles to carry one rider, when sent through parcels, maximum charge to be as for 28 lb. Milk for milk-condensing factories, rate reduced. Rates for conveyance of goods of Class F reduced for distances over thirty miles. Carts, drays, wagons, and expresses the property of same owner, rate on each vehicle after first in same truck reduced. Loading and unloading charges on small lots of goods of Class E reduced. Chaff- and hay-presses reduced to single rate F from rate and half F. Wool in bales over 4cwt. undumped and Bcwt. double-dumped, charge on excess weight reduced. Manure-salt, bonedust, rock-salt, and salt for agricultural and pastoral purposes, guano, soot, and manure other than street, stable, and farmyard, in small quantities, maximum rate reduced. Special charge for sending a messenger with consignments of special goods abolished. Lime, native produce, in quantities under a truck-load, rate reduced. Waste-paper rags in bales and "bundles, sacking-cotton, waste and other fibrous materials for paper-making, in small lots, rate reduced. Goods for relief of sufferers by Hawke's Bay floods carried free. Rates for small lots of Classes N, P, and Q goods reduced. Food products for charitable institutions carried at half-rates. Regulation for use of combined local and classified rates, where such are lower than classified mileage, introduced. (This affects and reduces the freight of most of the goods in the classification.) Lime, colonial produce, reduced. Exhibits to New Plymouth and Dunedin Industrial Exhibitions carried free. A, B, C, D, and H goods, Opau to Kamo, reduced. Timber from Mangahahuru, reduced. Lime, sulphur, fireclay, Auckland Station to Auckland Railway Wharf, rate reduced. Pumice for export, rate reduced. Goods consigned direct between country stations and Auckland Railway Wharf, rate reduced. Log timber, Helen3ville to Onehunga Wharf, reduced. Ashes consigned to Matahiwi, rate reduced. A, B, C, D goods between New Plymouth Breakwater, Morley Station, and New Plymouth, reduced. Lime from Mauriceville to stations on Napier-Taranaki Section, reduced.