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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