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RETURN No. 32. Statement of Alterations in and Additions to Scale of Charges during the Year ended 31st March, 1914. PART I.—PASSENGERS. Local Fares and Regulations. Main Trunk Express Trains : Regulation re tickets to or from stations between Wellington (Thorndon) and Palmerston North amended. Hanmer Plains Hot Springs : Arrangement made for issue of through rail and motor trip tickets at second-class rates. Cold Lakes and Glacial District of Otago, and round-trip tours through Central Otago : Fares increased. PART lII.—GOODS REGULATIONS. Exhibition at Auckland : Regulation provided for free conveyance of exhibits. PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES. Rates between Auckland or Newmarket and Onehunga Wharf amended. Timber from Helensville : Rate amended to include wharfage at Onehunga Wharf. Through booking of goods to ports on the Kaipara : Rates for flax, hardwood piles, tow, and wool inserted to meet requirements of shipping company. Rates to and from Ruawai Wharf altered. Rate on log timber from Waitakere to Onehunga Wharf reduced. Wharfage rates on goods landed or shipped at Greymouth Wharf added to special rate on goods between Greymouth and Hokitika. Rate on coal, Roa (Paparoa Coal Company's line) to Greymouth, reduced by Id. per ton on coal from the Paparoa Mine. Cartage contract at Invercargill abolished, and regulations re additions to rates for cartage amended. PART V.—CLASSIFICATION. Added— Class. Boiler-tubes, old, for fencing and for use as telephone poles. Minimum, 6 tons per fourwheeled wagon. (Any less quantity to be charged as such minimum or at the classified rate for Class D) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. N Butterine, packed .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. C Cables, telephone, packed on reels. Owner's risk .. .. .. .. .. B Can-keys for opening preserved meat and other tins .. .. .. .. .. C Cyanamide, packed. Owner's risk .. .. .. .. .. .. .. E Decolite, packed .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. C Digesters, steam. Owner's risk .. .. .. .. .. .. .. C Frames, iron, for portable boilers or coppers not set up, packed. Owner's risk .. .. C Milk, dried, New Zealand manufacture, packed .. .. .. .. .. C Milk, dried, New Zealand manufacture, packed, consigned direct from local factories in consignments of not less than 10 cwt. Rate and a half .. .. .. .. E Nitrolim, packed. Owner's risk .. .. .. .. .. .. .. E Plaster, fibrous, not otherwise specified, New Zealand manufacture, packed in cases or crates. Owner's risk. Special goods .. .. .. .. .. .. .. A Plaster, fibrous, in plain slabs, New Zealand manufacture, packed in cases or crates. Owner's risk. Special goods .. .. .. .. .. .. .. C (If fibrous plaster, ornamental or plain, or quantities of both are forwarded loose, the minimum will be 1 ton per four-wheeled truck, loading and unloading and packing in wagon to be performed by the owners ; if handled by the Department, rate and a half will be charged.) Poles, telegraph or telephone, iron. Owner's risk .. .. .. .. .. D Pulleys. Owner's risk. Special goods .. .. .. .. .. .. B Sackett plaster board, packed. Owner's risk| .. .. .. .. .. C Universal finish. As cement, not otherwise specified. Wood-wool, packed in sacks or bales. Owner's risk .. .. .. .. .. C Deleted— Milk, dried, New Zealand manufacture, packed .. .. .. .. B Milk, dried, New Zealand manufacture, packed, consigned direct from local factories .. D Plaster, fibrous, New Zealand manufacture, packed. Owner's risk .. .. .. A PART VI.—WHARVESj Onehunga Wharf : Wharfage rates cancelled. Greymouth Wharf : Berthage charges amended.

By Authority : John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9l4.