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RETURN NO. 21— continued. Statement of Altekations effected in and Additions made to the Scale of Chahges— continued. Part No. I—continued.1 — continued. PART IV.—GOODS, LOCAL RATES— continued. Hurunui-Bluff Section —continued. Rate for sheepskins, South Canterbury Refrigerating Company's Siding to Orari, removed Rate for dead meat, Oamaru to Port Chalmers, inserted Rate for goods of Classes A, B, C, D from Oamaru to Dunedin and Port Chalmers reduced Rates for fat, Eveline to Burnside and Dunedin, removed Rate for gravel, Menlovo's Siding to Oamaru, reduced Rate for stone and stone piles from Oamaru, Maheno, and intermediate stations, to Port Chalmers or Dunedin reduced Rate for goods between Dunedin and Burkes reduced Rate for quarry refuse and rough stone, Sawyer's Bay to Port Chalmers, reduced Rate for fat, Mataura to Wallacetown, reduced Rate for ballast in lots of not less than 200 tons, Bluff to Invercargill, reduced Classes A, B, C, D, District Railways Mining plant exempted from district rate Glasses A, B, C, D, Branch Lines Mining plant exempted from branch rate. PART V.—CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS. class . Acid, sulphuric, packed, from local factories. Owners' risk. Dangerous Minimum reduced to 2 tons. Bicycle-wheels, unpacked. Rate and a quarter. Owners' risk. As parcels See Part 11. Breeze .. Reduced to P Circuses. Owners' risk. Special goods See Part 111. Engines, locomotive, running on their own wheels. Owners' risk. Special goods See Part 111. Gas, liquefied carbonic acid, in solid drawn steel tubes. Owners' risk. Dangerous Reduced to A Logwood Reduced to D Merry-go-rounds. Owners' risk. Special goods B Mining machinery and plant, not otherwise specified. Owners' risk. Special goods D Oil-cake, New Zealand made. Owners' risk . Reduced to E Piles, stone, rough. Owners' risk Reduced to Q Pipes, unflanged wrought-iron, and wrought-iron fluming, for mining purposes , minimum quantity, 2 tons per single truck, 5 tons per double-bogie truck. Class D. Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum, or at the classified rates for Class B. Owners' risk. Special goods Plants, packed. Owners' risk Reduced to C Rabbit-traps, packed Reduced to C Riding galleries. Owners' risk. Special goods B Sails, ships' . B Semolina, packed. Owners' risk . Reduced to E Sheep-feeding boxes. Owners' risk Minimum reduced to lOcwt. Sheeting, in bales, for fellmongeries, or consigned to or to be used by frozen-meat companies, for manufacture of coverings for frozen meat Reduced to D Shooting galleries. Owners' risk. Special goods B Shrubs, in packages. Owners' risk Reduced to C Soda-ash, packed Reduced to D Tricycle-wheels, unpacked. Rate and a quarter. Owners'risk. As parcels See Part 11. Vegetable refuse, in bags Reduced to Q Woolpacks, in bales and bundles . D Removed. Mining—iron trucks and buckets. PART VI.—WHARVES. Napier-Taranaki Section. Wanganui Station : Clause inserted re ships discharging at other times than ordinary working hours. Greymouth Section. Greymouth Wharf: Charges and rates amended. Westport Section. Westport Wharf: Charges and rates amended. Picton Section. Picton Wharf: Charge for timber trucked from carts on to wharf removed. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Port Chalmers Wharves Charges for live-stock not conveyed by rail inserted. Charge for vessels lying at the Wharves reduced.