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RETURN No. 34. Statement of Alterations effected in, and Additions made to, the Scale of Charges, during the Year ending 31st March, 1885. PART I.—PASSENGERS. Eevision of season-ticket rates for short distances. Newspaper-reporters' season tickets. Amended regulation. Teachers' Saturday season tickets. Altered from term to quarter. New regulation re free school season tickets. Special trains for Government departments. Charge levied for engine when it is ordered and not used. Local Fakes and Eegulations. Hurunuir-Bluff Section. Eeduced mileage between Pelichet Bay and Port Chalmers for purpose of charging fares. Local rates between Pelichet Bay and stations on Port Chalmers line. Duntroon and Hakateramea Company's Line. Additional fares to and from the terminus. PART lI.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC. Birds in cages excepted from regulation re charging separate parcels. Druggists' bottles charged single rate. Eates for parcels, containing artificial flowers, paper-boxes, &c, and pasteboard boxes containing millinery, reduced. Minimum charge for horses, &c, in cattle-trucks, lowered. New rate for milk consigned to cheese and butter factories. PART lII.—GOODS. Classified Bates. Eeductions in Classes N, P, for distances beyond 152 miles. Maximum weight fixed for truck-loads Class F. Eates reduced for small quantities of unpressed hay, straw, &c. Charge for trucks containing over 5 tons of firewood, &c, reduced from double rate to rate and a half. New regulation re drovers of live-stock, and mixed consignments. Eates for cattle, calves, &c, in small lots, reduced. Eeduction of minimum for quantities of bonedust, guano, &c, and addition of offal to other articles of traffic. Carriage on heavy wagons reduced from double rate to rate and a half. Eeturned empties. Eates reduced for distances up to 25 miles. New charge for weighing truck-loads of goods of Class B. PART IV.—LOCAL RATES. Whangarei Section. Special rate to or from the railway wharf for live-stock. Auckland Section. Dross and fireclay added to native-coal rates, and rates extended to Fisher's Siding. New rates to Mount Eden from local mines, and rate for imported coals from Onehunga to Auckland. New rate for bricks from Hunt's Siding to Auckland, and for coals carried from Auckland to the siding. Addition to regulation for Class E. New rate for sugar for shipment from Auckland Eailway Wharf to Onehunga. Eates to stations on Cambridge Branch. Adoption of local rate for kauri logs from Helensville to Onehunga Wharf. Special rate for goods ex ship to Fisher's Siding, for manufacture of oil and artificial manures. Eough stone, Tuakau to Auckland. New rate. Napier Section. Eates for round logs extended to Waipukurau and Napier. Addition to regulation for Class E. Wellington Section. Adoption of local rates for bark from Wellington Wharf. Eates for milk consigned to dairy-companies' factories at Greytown and Taratahi cancelled. Addition to regulation for Class E. Eate for bark from Wellington Wharf to Ngahauranga lowered. Adoption of special rate for cheese consigned from cheese factories for foreign export. Wanganui Section. Addition to regulation for Class E. Special rate for cheese consigned from cheese factories for foreign export.