1564
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

(a.) For any person suffering from any infectious disease, as defined
in “The Public Health Act, 1908,” to travel or attempt to
travel in or upon any railway-carriage on the railway, or to
enter upon any railway premises ;
(b.) For any person, whilst in charge of any person suffering as afore-
said, to take or place, or allow such person to be taken or placed,
in or upon any railway-carriage on the railway, or upon any
railway premises.

27. No person shall come upon any railway-platform for the purpose of
    removing any passenger or luggage, unless engaged by a passenger for such
    purpose, and no person shall come upon any railway premises for the pur-
    pose of soliciting custom or hire, and no person having come upon any
    station platform for any lawful purpose shall solicit custom or hire thereon.

28. It shall be the duty of the owner and also of the person in charge of
    any animal to prevent such animal from trespassing on any railway or
    on any part thereof ; and if the animal is found so trespassing, the owner
    and also the person in charge thereof shall be severally liable for a breach
    of this by-law.

29. No person shall make any false declaration or written statement or
    give any false certificate with the object of obtaining a concession of freight
    or a reduction of passenger-fare in connection with traffic on any railway,
    and any person so acting shall be guilty of an offence under this by-law,
    whether such concession or reduction is thereby obtained or not.

30. No goods will be received for carriage or carried upon a railway
    except upon the following conditions :—
    (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.

31. The Minister will not be responsible for any loss or damage in
    respect to any goods received for carriage or carried on a railway-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 con-
    signment 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,
    King’s 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.

32. 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 without distinctly marking “Dan-
    gerous” on the outside of such goods, and specifying the particulars on a
    consignment note. The following are, amongst others, declared to be
    dangerous goods :—
    Benzoline and all other dangerous oils, bisulphide of carbon, blast-
    ing-powders, bleaching-liquids, bromide, cartridges, chloride of
    sulphur, cotton gunpowder, dynamite, fireworks, fluoric acid,
    fog-signals, fuses, gasoline, gazogen, gun-cotton, gunpowder,
    lucifer-matches, muriatic acid or spirits of salts, naphtha, naph-
    thaline, 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, pudrolithe, pyrolithe,
    or other materials or compounds liable to sudden ignition or
    explosion.

The Railway Department may refuse to receive or carry such goods. When