1568

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 89

12. No person shall enter or remain in a carriage
    or compartment of a carriage containing the full number
    of persons which it is constructed to convey, except
    with the consent of the persons in such carriage or
    compartment, and any person who shall have entered
    a carriage or compartment under such circumstances
    shall go out immediately upon being requested by
    the Guard or other officer of the railway to do so.

13. No person, not being a railway servant, shall open
    any carriage for the purpose of entering the same after
    the tickets have been examined and the carriage doors
    locked by the person appointed for that purpose, nor
    shall open any carriage or truck, or attempt to do so,
    at any station or at any time during the journey, by
    means of a private key or other instrument.

14. No person shall get into or upon or quit any part
    of a train while it is in motion.

15. No person shall load or discharge firearms, or
    carry loaded firearms, in, or place them upon, any
    carriage, engine, wagon, truck, or other vehicle situate
    on any part of the railway.

16. No person shall smoke on any part of a railway
    or train except in the carriages set apart for the pur-
    pose.

17. No person shall take a dog into any passenger
    carriage.

18. No railway servant shall receive any gratuity on
    pain of dismissal, and no person shall give or offer a
    gratuity to any such servant.

19. No person shall make use of insulting or abusive
    language to any railway officer or servant while in the
    execution of his duty, or obstruct any such officer
    while in the execution of his duty, or make use of in-
    decent or blasphemous language on any part of the
    railway.

20. No person shall commit any nuisance or gamble
    on any part of the railway, or do any act which shall
    wilfully interfere with the comfort of any passenger.

21. No person suffering from any infectious disorder
    shall travel, or attempt to travel, upon any carriage
    on the railway, or enter upon the railway premises
    without the Manager's permission. The Manager may
    refuse to carry any such person.

22. No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney car-
    riage, omnibus, express, or other public vehicle, shall
    ply for hire within the railway premises without a
    license in writing from the General Manager or some
    person authorized by him to issue such licenses.

23. No person will be allowed to come upon any rail-
    way platform for the purpose of removing any passenger
    or luggage, unless engaged by a passenger for such
    purpose, and no person will be allowed to come upon
    any railway premises for the purpose of soliciting
    custom or hire.

24. No person shall sell, or attempt to sell, any article
    on any of the premises of a railway or train without the
    consent of the General Manager..

25. No goods will be received for carriage or carried
    upon a railway, except upon the following con-
    ditions:—

(1.) That a "consignment note," on a form to
be obtained from the person in charge of
the station, properly filled in and signed by
or on behalf of the consignor, is handed to
the officer taking delivery of the goods at the
time of their delivery.

(2.) That the person delivering the goods obtains
at the same time a written receipt for the
same, signed by the officer to whom they
are delivered.

26. The Minister will not be responsible for any loss
    or damage in respect to any goods received for carriage
    or carried on a railway or train under any of the following
    circumstances, that is to say,–

(1.) If the above-mentioned consignment note is
not delivered with the goods, or the receipt
not obtained for the same.

(2.) If the goods are wrongly or insufficiently
described on the consignment note.

(3.) If the goods are allowed to remain on the
premises of the railway for more than twelve
working hours after their arrival at the
station to which they are addressed.

(4.) If they are put into packages described as
"empties."

(5.) If they are insufficiently or insecurely
packed, or if articles liable by breakage or
leakage to damage one another are packed
in the same package.

(6.) If the loss or damage arises from the act of
God, civil commotions, Queens' enemies, or
from fire (except from the railway engines
or apparatus), or from accidental delays in
transit occurring from either of these causes.

(7.) Unless the claim for such loss or damage be
specified in writing, and within seven days
after the due time of delivery.

27. No person shall place or carry in or upon any
    part of a train, or deposit in any waiting room or
    shed used for passengers, any dangerous or explosive
    goods; and no person shall consign by railway or
    deposit on the railway premises any such goods with-
    out distinctly marking "dangerous" on the outside of
    such goods, and specifying the particulars on a con-
    signment note. The following are, amongst others,
    declared to be dangerous goods :–

Benzoline and all other dangerous oils, bisulphide of
carbon, blasting powders, bleaching liquids,
bromine, cartridges, chloride of sulphur,
cotton gunpowder, dynamite, fireworks,
fluoric acid, fog signals, fusees, gasoline,
gazogen, gun cotton, gunpowder, lucifer-
matches, muriatic acid or spirits of salts,
naptha, napthaline, nitrate of iron, nitric
acid, oil of vitriol or sulphuric acid, oily
canvas or oily paper for packing, oily rags or
oily waste, perchloride of iron, petroleum,
phosphorus, pudrolythe, pyrolithe, or other
materials or compounds liable to sudden
ignition or explosion.

The Railway Department may refuse to receive or
carry such goods. When received and carried they
will be subject to such regulations as may from time to
time be publicly notified by the General Manager.

28. Fruit, vegetables, fish, meat, poultry, and other
    perishable articles, shall be carried only at the risk of
    the consignor, and, if not taken away within six hours
    after arrival at the station to which they are consigned,
    may be forthwith sold, by auction or otherwise, with-
    out notice to the sender or consignee; and payment
    or tender of the net proceeds of any such sale, after
    deduction of freight and expenses, shall be deemed to
    be equivalent to delivery.

29. All goods and luggage, having arrived at its des-
    tination, shall be removed by the consignees from the
    railway within such periods as may be defined in the
    scale of rates; and, if not removed within such period,
    may be stored or kept in the wagons at the risk and
    expense of the consignees or owners, and will become
    subject to such charges as may from time to time be
    published in such scale. If on the arrival of goods
    forwarded by railway the railway sheds and stores
    shall, in the opinion of the railway authorities, be
    full, and the consignees or owners do not take delivery
    within twelve working hours, such goods may be
    stored in any private store or yard at the risk and
    expense of the owners. In case of goods to be un-
    loaded by the consignee, a charge will be made for