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RETURN No. 32. Statkment of Alterations in and Additions to Scale of Charges during the Year ended 31st March, 1906. part i.—passengers. Geneeal Faces and Regulations. Season tickets : General reduction in rates. Sectional annual tickets : Rate reduced. List of stations at which tourist excursion tickets are issued amended. Local Faces and Regulations. Auckland Section. Suburban fares to and from Auckland and Newmarket from or to Glasgow: Inserted. PART lI.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC. Motor bicycles with trailers attached : Rate inserted. Milk test-boxes, Full or returned empty : Rate inserted. Left luggage : Regulation amended. Luggage, Commercial travellers' : Regulation amended, providing for issue of annual tickets for luggage (bond fide samples). PART III.—GOODS: REGULATIONS. Class N : Regulation amended. Coal, Native brown : Rates reduced for distances over seventy-five miles. Coal, Anthracite or bituminous : Rates reduced for distances over seventy-five miles. PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES. Terminal cartage charges at Auckland amended. Timber (other than white-pine)—Putararu to Mount Eden, Aucklaud, Onehunga Wharf, and intermediate stations, and to Komata, Thames, and intermediate stations: Rate inserted. Goods of A, B, C, D class from or to Westfield to or from Te Aroha, Thames, and intermediate stations : Rate inserted. Goods of A, B, C, D class from or to Auckland, Newmarket, Onehunga, or Westfield to or from stations on Waihi Branch : Rate inserted. Sugar, fencing-wire, and materials, galvanised iron, &c, from or to Auckland, Newmarket, Onehunga, or Westfield to or from stations on Waihi Branch : Rate inserted. Goods of A, B, C, D class between Paeroa and stations on Waihi Branch : Rate inserted. Rates for goods from or to Auckland, Newmarket, Mount Eden, and Onehunga to and from Westfield : Extended to Glasgow. Rate inserted for slack coal from Huntly or Kimihia to Thames and Shortland. Through booking of goods from stations on Auckland Section to Manakau ports : Rates amended. Rate inserted for tinned fish, in 5-ton lots, Helensville to Auckland. Timbee Rates. Gisborne Section. Rate inserted for white-pine timber, Te Karaka to Gisborne. Picton Section. Rate inserted for limestone from Picton to Elevation. Rate inserted for cement for export from Elevation to Picton. Through booking between Wellington or the Pore (Nelson) and stations on the Picton Section: Regulation amended. Hurumii-Bluff Section. Terminal cartage charge at Invercargill amended. Charge inserted for shunting grain, in 20-ton lots, carried between private sidings at Christchurch and private sidings at Riccarton and Addington. PART V.—CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS. Class. Phosphates, Ground, New Zealand product. Owners'risk ... ... ... Q Bedsteads, Brass and iron, consigned from factory in lots of lOcwt., New Zealand manufacture. Owners' risk ... ... ... ... ... ... B Removed: Ice, packed. Owners'risk ... ... ... ... ... C Ice, packed: Not otherwise specified. Owners'risk ... ... ... ... D Ice, in 4-ton lots. Owners' risk ... ... ... ... ... ... N Meal : Imported for cattle-feeding ... ... ... ... ... D Egg-preserver, New Zealand manufacture: Packed. Owners'risk... ... ... C Seaweed, Edible: Packed. Owners'risk ... ... ... ... ... l> PART VI. —WHARVES. Helensville Wharf. Wharfage charge for calves inserted.

By Authority. John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington. 1906. 16—1>. 2.