REDUCTIONS IN RATES AND CHARGES MADE BY THE RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1893 Session I, D-15

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1893. NEW ZEALAND.

REDUCTIONS IN RATES AND CHARGES MADE BY THE RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS.

[In continuation of D.-24, Appendices of 1892.]

Eetum to an Order of the House of Bepresentatives dated 13th July, 1893. Ordered, " That a return be laid before this House in continuation of that contained in D.-24, Appendices of 1892."—(Mr. Buchanan.)

Reductions in Fares and Rates since Appointment of Railway Commissioners. [In continuation of Return contained in D.-24, Appendices 1892.]

GENERAL. Item. Nature of Beduction. Example. Stereotype casts consigned to or from newspaper proprietors Parcels, etc. To be charged at rates for news- I Previously, 561b., 100 miles, 2s. 6d.; now, papers | 561b., 100 miles, lid. Goods. Goods of Class F: Hay, straw, chaff, turnips, mangolds, &c. Truckload fixed at 6 tons .. Previously, per truck, 5 tons, 100 miles, 43s. 6d. = 8s. 8d. per ton ; now, per truck, 6 tons, 100 miles, 43s. 6d. = 7s. 3d. per ton. Previously, ClassD ; now,Class E Previously, 100 miles, 26s. 6d. per ton; now, 100 miles, lis. 7d. per ton. Previously, Class D; now, half Previously, 100 miles, 26s. 6d. per ton; now, rates Class C 100 miles, 16s. lOd. per ton. Previously, ClassB; now, Class C Previously, 100 miles, 41s. 6d. per ton; now, 100 miles, 33s. 7d. per ton. Previously, Class D ; now, Class P Previously, 100 miles, 26s. 6d. per ton ; now,. 100 miles, 10s. 2d. per ton. Barley (pearl), packed Fish (fresh), 2-ton lots and over .. Machinery (refrigerating and paper-making) Rock-salt LOCAL. Section. Item. Nature of Beduction. Example. Passengers. Wellington and Hu-runui-Blurf Hurunui-Bluff Suburban fares, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin Single fares for one and Previously, one mile, 1st class 6d., 2nd two miles reduced class 4d.; previously, two miles, 1st class 6d., 2nd class 4d. : now, one mile, 1st class 3d., 2nd class 2d.; now, two miles, 1st class 5d., 2nd class 3d. Single fare reduced .. Previously, 1st class 6d., 2nd class 4d.; now, 1st class 5d., 2nd class 3d. Fares, Pelichet Bay and Ravensbourne Auckland Sulphur Goods. Rate, Oxford to West- Previously, Oxford to Westfield, 29s. 9d. field or Auckland, re- per ton ; now, Oxford to Westfield, 9s. duced per ton. Rate, Onehunga to Auck- Previously, 5s. 4d. per ton; now, 4s. 4d. land, reduced per ton. Sheet iron and tram-rails

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Reductions in Fares and Rates since Appointment of Railway Commissioners— continued.

LO CAL— continued. Section. Item. Nature of Beduction. Example. Goods — continued. Napier-Taranaki and Wellington Anchors and chain-cables Previously charged Class C ; now, Class D Ditto Previously, 50 miles, 22s. lid. per toi now, 50 miles, 17s. 5d. per ton. Ditto. Anvils Asphalte Bark (imported), packed Bark (native), loose Bleach soda-ash Cables (chain) Castings (iron), rough .. Cement Coke, in small lots Contractors' plant, over 2 tons Creosote Crowbars Demijohns (earthenware) Felloes (unmanufactured) Fire-bars and bearers, dumb-plates and fur-nace-doors Fish (fresh), under 2 tons Fish (fresh), over 2 tons Previously charged Class C; now, half rate Class C Previously charged Class C ; now, Class D Ditto .. Previously, 50 miles, 22s. lid. per to: now, 50 miles, lis. 6d. per ton. Flax (imported) Previously, 50 miles, 22s. lid. per to: now, 50 miles, 17s. 5d. per ton. Ditto. Flour-bags Foot-rot preparation .. Fruit (fresh), imported.. Gates (field) Glass (broken) Grain (poisoned) Granite (dressed) Grass (brushmakers') .. Gravestones Grease (lubricating) Honey (in lOcwt. lots) .. Hoofs and horns Hurdles (iron and wood) Iron (corrugated), packed Iron (galvanised), packed Iron (angle, bar, rod, hoop, sheet, and plate), unmanufactured Lead (pig, sheet, and pip e ) Lead (red and white) .. Meat (preserved) Monkeys (pile-driving) .. Naves (unmanufactured) Oil-cake Oysters and other shellfish, under 2 tons Paper bags (colonial manufacture) Paper, in reams and bales (colonial manufacture) Pelts (green or limed), in bags Pelts (limed), in 2-ton lots Piles (cast- and wroughtiron) Pile-shoes Pipeclay Pitch Resin Rims for wheels (unmanufactured) Salt (packed) Seeds (turnip, clover, and mangold) Sheep-dip (colonial manufacture) from factory Shooks Soda (caustic), consigned to paper-mills Soda crystals Spokes (unmanufactured) Standards (iron) for fencing, in bundles A. a ■ ■ •/• It

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Reductions in Fares and Rates since Appointment of Railway Commissioners— continued.

B. G. PILCHER, 7th July, 1893. Secretary.

Approximate Cost of Paper.—Preparation, nil; printing (1,250 copies), £2 16s.

By Authority : Samuel Costall, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB9 . Trice 3d.]

LOCAL— continued. Section. Item. Nature of Beduction. Example. Goods— continued. apier-Taranaki and Wellington— cont. Staves Strainers (iron), for fencing Sulphur (loose) Tar .. Tow (dressed), pressed .. Umber, for paper-making purposes Venetian red, consigned to paper-mills Willows (in bundles) .. Wire (iron), fencing, in bundles Wire-netting Woolpacks, in bales Clay and bricks Previously charged Class C ; now. Class D Ditto Previously, 50 miles, 22s. lid. per ton ; now, 50 miles, 17s. 5d. per ton. Ditto. jroymouth Timber, Kaiata and Dobson to Greymouth Bark (native), Wai-iti to Nelson Ships' goods (A, B, C, D), in 10-ton lots, between Timaru and Bluff Terminal charge of Is. Classes A, B, C, D, and when goods arc con for shipment in vessels Wool, Ocean Beach to Bluff Timber, Springburn and Buccleugh to Tinwald and Ashburton Fat, Eveline to Burnside Rate of 2s. per ton from Brunnerton to Greymouth to include weighing charge. Rate reduced 2d. per 100ft. Local rate adopted Previously, 9d. per 100ft.; now, 7d. per 100ft. Previously, 4s. 8d. per ton; now, 3s. 6d. per ton. Previously, average rate 61s. 5d. per ton; now, 30s. per ton. Nelson Hurunui-Blufi Local rate of 30s. per ton adopted 2d. per ton on goods of E at Dunedin foregone signed to Railway Wharf lying there. Rate reduced Previously, Is. per bale ; now, 6d. per bale. Rate reduced Previously, Buccleugh to Ashburton, Is. 7d. per 100ft.; now, Buccleugh to Ashburton, Is. 2d. per 100ft. Previously, 31s. 4d. per ton; now, 22s. 6d. per ton. Rate reduced Nightsoil, Kensington to Wingatui Preserved meat from fac railways, exempted fro charge. Rate of 12s. per truck adopted, tories, situated on district m district railways' extra Wharves. Greymouth Charge for use of wharfl vessels with one-eighth I reduced 50 per cent, for cargo.