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Threshing-machines, reapers-and-binders, winnowing-machines, and bulky machinery, carriageand gig-bodies, and furniture, between Dunedin and Inveroargill, reduced. Commercial travellers' luggage sent through Goods Department, rate reduced to Class B. Stereotype casts consigned by or to newspaper-proprietors, reduced to same rate as newspapers. Horses of members of polo-clubs conveyed back free if returned within three days of polo match. Each passenger allowed to carry as luggage one bicycle, tricycle, or perambulator free of charge. Corpses : Rate reduced from Is. to 6d. per mile. Hawera Exhibition : Exhibits carried free; store cattle and sheep in large mobs, rate reduced. Rock-salt and salt for agricultural or pastoral purposes in lf-ton lots, rate reduced. Exhibits to agricultural shows and horse-parad.es : Part consignments unsold conveyed back to sending station free. Contributions for gift-auction in aid of Wellington Convalescent Home carried free. Threshing-machines, chaff-cutters, and hay-presses, with engines (portable or traction), consigned to country stations for threshing, &c, carried back at half-rate if returned within one month. Sheep-, rabbit-, and calf-skins, wool, hides, lard, fat, and tallow in small lots, rate reduced. West Coast Exhibition, Greymouth : Exhibits carried free. Sulphur, Oxford and Tarukenga to Westfield or Auckland, reduced. A, B, C, D goods, Auckland or Newmarket to Putaruru, reduced. Sheet-iron and train-rails, Onehunga to Auckland, reduced. Timber, Kanohi to Auckland and Onehunga Wharf, reduced. White-pine, Whangarata to Newmarket and Auckland, reduced. Timber, Auckland and Onehunga to Tarukenga, reduced. Wool, hides, and skins between Auckland or Newmarket and Onehunga, reduced. Bonedust manure, &c, conveyed over Rotorua district line, reduced. A, B, C, D goods, Te Aroha to Auckland and Newmarket, and between Onehunga and Te Aroha, reduced. Goods of Class D, reduced. Rock-salt and salt for agricultural purposes, rate reduced. Dead meat for Wellington, minimum quantity reduced. A, B, C, D goods between Breakwater and New Plymouth, reduced. Dead meat for Wellington vid Wellington and Manawatu Company's line, minimum reduced. Goods of Class D, rate reduced. Rock-salt and salt for agricultural purposes, reduced. Bark, native, rough, Wai-iti to Nelson, reduced. Timber, Picton to Blenheim, ex ship, reduced. Timber, Dobson to Greymouth, reduced. Clay and bricks to Greymouth, reduced. Beer, in bulk, Hokitika to Greymouth for shipment, reduced. Coal, Blackball to Greymouth, reduced. Ships' goods, A, B, C, D, in 10-ton lots, Timaru to Bluff, reduced. A, B, 0, D, and E goods to ships at Dunedin Railway Wharf, reduced. Wool, Waihao Downs and Waihao Forks to Timaru, Oamaru, and Breakwater, reduced. Timber from Buccleugh to Tinwald and Ashburton, and Rangitata to Timaru, Ashburton, and intermediate stations, reduced. A, B, C, D goods at Lyttelton, charge for Customs examination abolished. Fat, Eveline to Burnside, reduced. Preserved meats exempted from district railways rate. Flock and kapok in bales and grass-seed-cleaning machines on port lines, reduced. Tallow, Washdyke to Dunedin,-reduced. Fat, Eveline to Dunedin, reduced. Pelts, Maheno to Woolston, reduced. Skimmed milk returning from dairy factories, free carriage. Deposit on horse-box and carriage-truck orders abolished. Milk to and from Mount Eden and stations not exceeding ten miles radius of Auckland, rate reduced. Milk, Mungaroa to Petone, rate reduced. Bonedust, guano, manure-salt, salt for agricultural and pastoral purposes, rock-salt, soot, and artificial manure in small lots, reduced. Timber in small quantities, rate for over forty miles reduced. Trees in small lots, rate reduced. Grain charge for wheat in bags containing over 240 lb. reduced. Drovers in charge of not less than three trucks live-stock granted return passes for themselves and dogs. Bones in small quantities, rate reduced. Poultry coops and pens for use at shows returned free. Threshing-machines, chaff-cutters, and hay-presses, with engines: Time of return at half-rate extended from one to two months. Fresh fruit, New-Zealand-grown, reduced rate of 6d. for every 56 lb. for any distance. Fruit-cases, empty returns carried free.