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No. 12.-COMPARISON BETWEEN OLD AND NEW FREIGHTS ON GOODS. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of the COST of FREIGHT on GOODS on the New Zealand Railways at the New Rates, on the Victorian Railways, and at the Old Rates on the Otago Railways, Canterbury Main Line, Canterbury (including Lyttelton Line), and Wellington Line.

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