Railway Freight Classification




Oct. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1875

GOODS, PARCELS, LIVE-STOCK, AND LUGGAGE.

CLASSIFICATION—continued.

Goods Class
Currants, packed A
Curry Powder, packed A
Cutlery, packed A
Cylinders, Bridge, in pieces. Owners' risk. Special goods D
Dairy Produce, not otherwise specified B
Daisy Carts, in pieces, packed in three packages, total weight of each cart
not to exceed 2cwt. Double rate. Owners’ risk A
Dates, packed A
Demijohns, glass, in wickerwork. Owners' risk B
Demijohns, glass, without wickerwork. Rate and a half. Owners’ risk B
Demijohns, earthenware. Owners' risk D
Dholl, packed E
Disinfectants, packed B
Documents, valuable. Double rate. Owners' risk. Special goods As parcels, see Part II.
Dogs. Special goods. Owners' risk See Part II.
Door-fittings. Owners' risk B
Doors, wooden. Owners' risk C
Doors, glass. Owners' risk A
Doors, glass, packed. Owners' risk C
Drapery, packed. Owners' risk A
Drays, either set up or in pieces See Part III.
Dray-shafts and wheels B
Drays, in pieces, unpainted, and in the rough. Minimum, 1 ton per truck C
Dress-stands. Rate and a quarter As parcels, see Part II.
Driets, packed A
Drugs, packed. Owners' risk A
Duck, in bolts or bales B
Dyes, packed A
Dyewoods, not otherwise specified C
Dynamite. Double rate. Owners' risk. Dangerous A
Earth-closets A
Earthenware, packed, not otherwise specified. Owners' risk C
Earthenware, native, packed, consigned direct from local factories, in lots
of not less than 20cwt., half-rate Class B. Any less quantity will be
charged as such minimum or at the classified rates for Class D.
Eggs, only when safely packed. Owners' risk B
Empties, cases, for carriage of fruit See Part III.
Empties, returned, not otherwise specified See Part III.
Empties, returned fruit and vegetable packages Free
Empties, casks, cases, kegs, jars, tins, tubs, and crates, not “returned
empties,” but to be reconsigend over the railway full
As returned empties, see Part III.
Empties, not “returned empties,” not otherwise specified A
Encaustic Tiles C
Engines, Locomotive, running on their own wheels. Owners' risk. Special See Part III.
goods
Engines, Portable and Traction. Owners' risk. Special goods B
Engravings, loose. Double rate. Owners' risk. Special goods A
Engravings, in cases. Rate and a quarter. Owners' risk. Special goods A
Explosive Materials, not otherwise specified (excepting lithofracteur, nitro-
glycerine, dualine, glyoxiline, methylic nitrate, gloutine oil, gun-cotton,
pyrolithe, metallic sodium, which will not be carried). Double rate.
Owners' risk. Dangerous A
Express wagons, either set up or in pieces See Part III.
Express wagons in pieces, unpainted, and in the rough. Minimum, 1 ton
per truck C
Express-shafts and -wheels B
Fancy Goods, packed. Rate and a quarter. Owners' risk A
Fascines. Owners' risk F


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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1897, No 89





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