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RETURN NO. 32. Statement of Alterations in and Additions to Scale of Charges during the Year ended 31st March, 1908. PART I.—PASSENGERS. General Fares and Regulations. Public-school Cadets : Regulation amended making provision for Officer Commanding Battalion to travel first class. Tourist excursion tickets : List of stations at which tickets are stocked amended. Youths joining training-ship : Concession granted to youths travelling to undergo examination and when visiting their homes on leave. Ordinary fares: Provision made for distances over 500 miles. Newspaper reporters' tickets: Minimum fares, 6d. first and 4d. second inserted. Local Fares and Regulations. Auckland Section. Suburban fares inserted in connection with inauguration of motor-train service. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Through booking by rail and coach to Mount Cook abolished. Workers weekly tickets : Provision made for issue, Christchurch-Belfast. Through booking to Hanmer Plains Hot Springs. Regulation amended on account of running of motor-cars, and provision made for issue of tickets from additional stations. PART lI.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, &c. Motor-cars : Charge for covers inserted. Through booking to Hanmer Plains Hot Springs : Charge for luggage accompanying passengers inserted. PART III.—GOODS: REGULATIONS. Stock forwarded by rail for depasturing. Provision made for free return to destination. Provision made for free carriage of hay, straw, chaff, fodder, &c, forwarded by rail for feeding starving stock. Sheeting wagons : Charge inserted for sheeting when done by Department. Franco-British Exhibition : Regulation inserted for free conveyance of exhibits. PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES. Whangarei Section. Rate inserted for class P and Q goods from Hikurangi Coal Company's siding and Northern Coal Company's siding to Opau. Auckland Section. Through booking Manukau Ports : Charge inserted for reapers-and-binders and seed-drills. Timber, Waitakerei to Auckland : Special rate inserted. Special rate for tawa timber from Mamaku to Komata-Thames extended to include Waihi branch. Terminal charge for cartage of goods deleted consequent upon abolition of cartage contract. Timber rates inserted for timber other than white-pine from Bell's siding and Bartholomew Company's siding to Mount Eden, Auckland, Onehunga Wharf, and intermediate stations, and to Tirohia, Thames, and intermediate stations. Rate inserted for tawa timber from Bell's siding and Bartholomew Company's siding to Te Aroha, Paeroa, Waihi, Thames, and intermediate stations. Rate increased for loading logs at Helensville timber slip consequent upon increase in contractor's charge. Gisborne Section. Rate for white-pine timber Kaiterataho-Gisborne removed. Wellington-Napier-Neiv Plymouth Section. Maximum rate for rimu timber provided: Mangamaire to Lower Ilutt, Wellington, and intermediate stations. Rates removed for timber previously carried by rail to Booth's siding (Carterton). Charge inserted for special trains working Bennett's siding (North Island Main Trunk line). Westland Section. Rates for timber Kaiata-Dobson removed. Charge inserted for coal shunted from State Collieries to Runanga.

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