RAILWAY FARES AND CHARGES.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 216, 30 August 1878, Page 6

RAILWAY FARES AND CHARGES.

A Supplementary Gazette publishes bye-laws, fixing a uniform scale of fares and charges for passengers on the New Zealand Railways, commencing fron the 22nd inst : —

Passenger rates, first-class single, 3d per mile ; second 2d ; return, a fare and a half ; children, half rates ; minimum charges, 6d and 3d. Special trains, with one large carriage, 15s per mile.

School tickets, irrespective of distance, 10s per quarter.

School parties, f d per mile. Family tickets for four persons, twothirds, the ordinary rate.

Season tickets for newsboys, at half the ordinary rates.

Each passenger is allowed to take 1121bs of luggage free, and Is per 501bs extra. • Dogs, 6d per 25 miles. The maximum to be charged, 2s 6d.

Milk, 3d per gallon for 30 miles, ancl -Jd for each additional 10 mUes. Grain, 2|d per ton per mile, with a terminal charge of Is 9d per ton on goods consigned to or from jDrivate sidings or sheds. Owners to load and unload.

Minerals, 2d per ton per mile. Wool, undumped, Id per rnilo per bale not exceeding 4 cwt ; double dumped, l-|d per bale. Owners to load and unload.

Timber, id per 100 feet (superficial) per mile.

Live stock, sheep, pigs, &c, 10s per truck up to 10 miles ; for each additional mile up to 50, 4d.

Freight for a lot of sheep not less than 9000 for a distance not exceeding 170 miles, L3BO.

Cattle, 15s per truck up to 10 miles ; for each additional mile, 5d per truck up to 50 miles.

Horses (single), 8s 8d up to 10 miles ; 2^d per mile after.

Hay and straw, 6d per truck for 50 miles ; for each additional mile, 7d.

Posts and rails and firewood, lOd per truck per mile up to 50 miles ; 7^d per truck for each additional mile.

Corpses, Is per mile ; minimum, Ll Native coal, Is 6d per ton for two miles; 2d per ton each additional mile up to 15, General regulations : A. truck load is computed at five tons ; drivers of public vehicles are charged an annual fee of Ll for a license for plying for hire within the precincts of any station..

Road metal, Id per mile.