RAILWAY PERMITS

Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 4 August 1919, Page 2

RAILWAY PERMITS

NEW REGULATIONS The following bye-laws have been gazetted with regard to the train services of the Dominion : (1) No person shall travel or attempt to 'travel on a railway without having previously obtained a permit in writing so to do from a railway officer. Such a permit will bo granted only in respect: of a specified journey, and will be granted only on its being established to the satisfaction of the railway officer that such journey is reasonably necessary, and that it is not merely or principally for pleasure or any other non-essential purpose. No person shall purchase or attempt to purchase a railway ticket for any journey unless and until a permit for that journey has been duly obtained. Every person who has obtained a permit for that journey as aforesaid shall cany the permit with him on that journey, and shall show and deliver up the same whenever required so to do by any railway officer for any purpose whatsoever. This bye-law shall not apply to persons making a journey for which tickets at suburban fares in accordance with regulation (51) Part (1) of the railway tariff gazetted on the 17th day of December, 1912, arc issuable. This bye-law shall »not apply to a person travelling on a railway under the authority of a season ticket or free pass, or in pursuance of a contract entered into before the coming into operation of this bye-law entitling him to travel on that railway.

(2) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain any such permit as aforesaid by knowingly making any false representation to any railway officer, and no person shall transfer or attempt to transfer any such permit, and no person shall use or attempt to use any such permit which has been issued to or in the name of any other person, and no person shall use or attempt to use any sucdi permit for any other journey or on any such day or days than that or those in respect of which the same was issued.

(3) Any person who commits n breach of the foregoing bye-laws shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £lO.