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RETURN No. 27 Statement of Altebationb effected in and Additions made to the Scale of Chakges during the Nine Months ending the 31st December, 1894. Part No. 1. PART I.—PASSENGERS. General Fares and Regulations. Ordinary Tickets : Regulation re breaking journey inserted Charge of Is. to passengers joining train at a booking station without a ticket reduced to 6d. £50 annual tickets not available by Midland Railway Company's trains between Greymouth and Brunner Rates for workmen's commutation twelve-trip tickets inserted School season tickets to be issued for three months from any date, available for travelling to and from school only Free school season tickets, available for travelling to and from school only Rates for scholars and students over nineteen years of age reduced School Excursions Regulation amended Special Trains : Charge for light running inserted Rates for pleasure parties of not less than twenty adults reduced Rates for theatrical, concert, and circus companies of not less than ten adults reduced. Local Fares and Regulations. Whangarei Section. Sectional system for charging passengers adopted. Auckland Section. Suburban fares between Newmarket and Remuera removed Regulation re conveyance of funerals to Waikomiti Cemetery inserted. 'Napier-Taranaki and Wellington Sections. Ordinary return tickets between Napier and Wellington, via Manawatu Company' 3 line ; and between Napier and Te Aro, Wellington, Ngahauranga, Petone, and Lower Hutt, via Rlmutaka, made available for return for two months from date of issue. Westport Section. Fares for passengers on Mokihinui Coal Company's line inserted. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Ordinary fares, and season and commutation ticket rates, from Burkes to Dunedin and Pelichet Bay, and vice versd, and between Dunedin and Cattle-yards reduced Ordinary fares between Caversham and Cattle-yards reduced. PART lI.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC. Rates for bicycle and tricycle wheels increased Deposit of ss. when ordering horse-boxes and carriage-trucks not required at certain stations Skim-milk returning from factories to original sender in the original cans to be carried free. Local Rates and Regulations. Whangarei Section. Seotional system for charging parcels adopted. Auckland Section. Rate on milk to and from Mount Eden and stations not exceeding ten miles radius from Auckland reduced. Wellington Section. Rate on milk from Mungaroa to Petone reduced. PART lII.—GOODS. Regulations. Regulation 3: Charge for small lots of trees reduced Grain, &o. Minimum charge for loading and unloading inserted. Charge for bags weighing over 2401b5. reduced Charge for small lots of timber for distances over forty miles reduced Live Stock: Return passes granted to drovers and their dogs accompanying each consignment of not less than three trucks. Clauses reserving to department the right to fill trucks partially loaded to their full carrying capacity, and to charge trucks specially required by senders but not fully loaded at truck rate, and also to supply single-floored trucks when double-floored trucks are not available, inserted Charge for small lots of bone-dust, guano, &c, reduced Charge for small lots of bones reduced Extra charge for goods and live-stock conveyed by special trains, which could be worked by ordinary train service, provided Charge for circuses inserted Charge for locomotive engines running on their own wheels inserted Provision for charging for poultry-pens and coops for use at shows inserted Period during which threshing-machines, &c, consigned to country stations for threshing, chaffcutting, or pressing purposes, are carried on the return journey at half rates, extended to two months, and form of certificate inserted West Coast Exhibition : Regulation re free carriage of exhibits removed,