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RETURN NO. 32. Statement of Alterations in and Additions to Scale of Charges during the Year ended 31st March, 1905. PART I.—PASSENGERS. General Fares and Regulations. Ordinary single tickets for distances over twenty miles made available for one month from date of issue. Eeturn tickets: Regulation requiring both halves of return tickets to be presented to guards on outward journey. Volunteers : Regulation for public-school cadets inserted. Newspaper reporters' tickets : Minimum fare provided. Newspaper reporters : All-lines tickets made available over Lake Wakatipu. Free school tickets : Provision for free school tickets to holders of junior and secondary technical scholarships inserted. Technical school season and technical school commutation tickets : Provision for the use of these tickets by music pupils deleted. Tourist excursion tickets : Fares reduced. Annual season tickets: All-lines and Middle Island lines tickets made available over Lake Wakatipu. Local Fares and Regulations. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Through booking, Queenstown : Single tickets made available for one month. Auckland Section. Additional fares for workers' tickets consequent on extension of suburban services to Henderson. PART lI.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC. Luggage : Allowance of 56 lb. of luggage for children travelling on half tickets inserted House-fittings and live poultry excepted from list of bond fide luggage. Bicycles : Bicycle tickets not available for break of journey. Left luggage : Regulation amended. Left parcels : Regulation amended. Delivery of parcels : Regulation inserted providing that Department will not be responsible for the delivery of parcels by any particular train or at any particular time. Rate for letters for newspaper-proprietors containing bond fide Press matter inserted. Stud stock: Time for free return of stallions and brood mares consigned for breeding purposes extended to five months. Local Rates and Regulations. Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth Section. Special rate for cream, Marton to Waverley, removed. Special rate for cream, Marton to Aramoho, inserted. Westport Section. Rate for parcels from stations on main line to stations on the Waimangaroa Branch inserted. PART III.—GOODS: REGULATIONS. Hawera Industrial Exhibition: Regulation re free conveyance exhibits cancelled. Marlborough Industrial Exhibition : Ragulation re free conveyance exhibits cancelled. New Plymouth Exhibition : Regulation re free conveyance exhibits inserted. Lime for manuring farm-lands : Minimum truckload inserted ; certificate amended. Seeds returning from seed-cleaning establishments : Time for free return inserted. Show exhibits certificate amended. PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES. Whangarei Section. Storage charges on timber not removed from the booms within one week inserted. Auckland Section. Class H: Rate for wool, Mangaiti to Auckland, inserted. Nightsoil rate, Auckland, &c, to New Lynn, removed. Through booking, Manukau : Steamer rate on goods reduced. Class X : Rate for log timber, Ahuroa and Tahekeroa to Auckland, inserted; rate for timber, Helensville South to Newmarket, Auckland, &c, inserted; rate for timber, Taumarunui and Taringamutu to Mount Eden, Auckland, &c, inserted. Wellington - Napier - New - Plymouth Section. Class H: Special rate for wool, Petone and Ngahauranga to Wellington, removed; rate for coal-dross, Mauriceville to Wellington, removed. Class M : Rate from stations on Wellington-Manawatu Company's line to Ngahauranga removed.