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acid, oil of vitriol or sulphuric acid, oily canvas or charges thereon paid before such day, the said goods oily paper for packing, oily rags or oily waste, per- may be sold, and the balance of the proceeds of such chloride of iron, petroleum, phosphorus, pudrolythe, sale, after paying the charges upon such goods, shall pyroiithe, or other materials or compouiids liable to be paid into the Public Trust Office, and shall be sudden ignition or explosion, and the Minister may, paid by the Public Trustee to any person establishat his option, refuse to receive or carry such ing a lawful claim thereto, goods. 52. The Minister may from time to time fix or 45. Fruit, fish, meat, poultry, and any other perish- alter scales of fares and charges for passengers'and able articles, shall be carried only at the sole risk of goods carried on a railway, or received on or into, or the person sending the same, and if not taken away stored in, or delivered from any wharf, pier, jetty, within six hours after arrival at the station (o which store, shed, or yard in connection with a railway, or they are consigned, may be forthwith sold, by auc- for demurrage on the use of any rolling stock, or for tion or otherwise, without notice to the sender or the use of any cranes, hoists, or other machinery for consignee ; and payment or tender of the net pro- loading or unloading of such goods, by a notice ceeds of any such sale, after deduction of freight and published in the New Zealand Gazette declaring the expenses, shall be accepted as equivalent to delivery, date at which such shall take effect. A printed notice 46. All empties not taken away within one month of such fares and charges shall also be fixed and after arrival will be sold to defray expenses. maintained in a conspicuous place at such stations as 47. All goods and merchandise, whether bonded or may be deemed advisable by the Enyineer-in-Chief. free, and all luggage, having arrived at its destina- The Minister may authorize the General Manager tion, shall be removed by the consignees from the from time to time to alter such passenger fares and platform and sheds within such periods as maybe rates temporarily by publishing a notice to that effect, defined in the tables of rates published in accordance such notice to be affixed in some conspicuous place at with clause 52 hereof; and if not removed within each station to which such alterations refer on the such period may be stored or kept in the wagons at line of railway affected. the risk and expense of the consignees or owners, The General Manager may from time to time and will become subject to such charges as may make time tables fixing and showing the times at from time to time be published in such tables. If on which trains arrive at and depart from stations; the arrival of goods forwarded by railway the railway such time tables, so far as relating to public passensheds and stores shall, in the opinion of the General ger trains, shall be advertised in a local newspaper Manager, be full, and the consignees or owners do three days before coming into force, and shall also not take delivery within twelve working hours, be posted in a conspicuous place at each station on the General Manager may store such goods in any the railway affected where tickets are sold, private store or yard at the risk and expense of the The General Manager may, by the posting of owners. In case of goods to be unloaded by the con- notices at such stations as they refer to, fix rules for signee, a charge will be made for demurrage according regulating the loading and unloading of carriagea to the tables of rates from time to time published in and wagons and the weights they carry, for ordering the Neiv Zealand Gazette, in accordance with clause the receipt and delivery of goods, and for storing the 52 hereof, for each truck not unloaded within the same, period named therein. The Engineer-in-Chief may from time to time, by 48. Should a consignor present a consignment note a notice in the New Zealand Gazette make rules and with goods understating the quantity or weight of regulations for the conduct of the traffic, and for the such goods, he shall be liable to a charge of double guidance and observance of the officers and men the ordinary rate on the difference between the employed on the railways. actual weight or measurement of the goods in ques- Forster Goring, tion and that stated upon the consignment note, in Clerk of the Executive Council. addition to any penalty which may be inflicted under the 154 th clause of "The Public Works Act, „ . . „. j t, t j> n ■ i -, oyg >> Sates for Storage and Delivery of Gram at the 49. All tolls and charges and warehousing charges Gladstone Pier and Lyttelton and other Railway must be paid immediately on demand to the person f 7iff> anf/°I Conveyance of Minerals-Amberley duly authorized to receive the same, and, except to Moerakl Z™lwa2/> thereof. where a special agreement is entered into.no goods -_ , ... , ~ . . ~ __ will be delivered to the consignee until the payment JN accordance with the By-laws for the NewZeaof such tolls and charges shall have been made. -j- d ,EaiW s > fi. xed °F der. j» Coimcll dat/ d 50. If any person refuses or fails to pay the the 17th day of April, 1877, the following rates for proper charges for any goods carried on a railway, the st? raf e and delivery of gram, and for the convey. or received on, stored in, or delivered from any aace, loading and unloading of mmerals, are hereby wharf, pier, jetty, shed, or yard connected therewith, declared to be fixed and shall be paid by persons or any charge for demurrage, for one month after the railways from this date forward, until demand of same by any person duly authorized to altered on that portion of the ra,lway from Amberley collect such charges, any such goods, or in case such tot} e Bluff s.tuated between Amberley and Moerakl, goods have been delivered, then any other goods on and °n *}}* bra f u(* lmes m connection therewith, m the premises of the railway belonging to the same substitution of all previous rates for storage and person, may, by order of the Minister, be sold ; and de\ lverJ of f ram ' and lor conveyance, loading, and the proceeds of such sale shall be applied first for of mmerals, except for the conveyance, paying the said charges and the expenses of such 'oadl"S' aud ™loadlug of minerals on the Lyttelton sale, and the balance, if any, shall be paid over to the branch. owner of the goods sold. 51. If any such goods are left on the premises of Table op Rates for Storage and Delivery op the railway, and the owner thereof, or the person Grain for Lyttelton Station and the Gladliable for the charges thereon, is not known, the stone Pier. Minister may cause it to be publicly notified that _ . , ~. „ , , . £ s. d. i_ j '-n i ij j j • i_ jor grain not taken delivery of ny the consignee such goods will be sold upon a day named in such Jj^ fiye (5) worki "^ j^ ani J notice, not less than one month from the publication fe e kept i n t ,h e railway wagons or stored at the thereof; and if such goods are not removed and the risk of the consignees or owners, and at the