New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 24

Page 1019

✨ Classification of Goods for Railway Carriage



APRIL 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1019

CLASSIFICATION—continued.

Item Class
Potash, chlorate of (not to be loaded in same truck as oil of myrbane) C
Potash, sulphate or muriate of .. .. See Regulation 86 E
Potatoes E
Potatoes, desiccated C
Poultry-spice, not otherwise specified D
Poultry-spice. Minimum quantity, 4 tons per consignment E plus 50%
Powder, blasting. Owner’s risk. Dangerous C. Double rate
Presses, hay, straw, or wool C
Precious stones .. .. See Regulation 65
Pressed tankage for fertilizer N
Printing metal for remelting D
Props, clothes, dressed timber D
Props, clothes, undressed timber F
Props, mining, hewn, and caps, hewn, to be used in conjunction with the props F
Pudrolithe. Owner’s risk. Dangerous C. Double rate
Pumice building-blocks P
Pumice panels, flags, or beams N
Pumice-stone, not otherwise specified Q
Pumice-stone, packed and consigned for shipment (including use of railway tarpaulins) Q
Pumpkins E
Pumps, petrol, with glass reservoir totally or partially exposed. Owner’s risk C plus 50%
Pumps, petrol, with glass reservoir securely packed C plus 20%
Pumps, hand or power, not otherwise specified C
Pungas Q
Punga dust, packed E
Punnetts, fruit, packed .. .. (See also Regulation 91) C
Punts or flatties not exceeding 12 ft. in length or 1¼ cwt. in weight will be charged as for a minimum weight of 10 cwt. per consignment C plus 20%
Punts or flatties exceeding 12 ft. in length or 1¼ cwt. in weight will be charged as for a minimum weight of 1 ton per consignment C
Puppies, in crates or baskets .. .. See Regulation 61
Push-chairs, folding, packed in cases, crates, matting, or in heavy brown paper and covered with hessian C plus 50%
Push chairs, folding, loose C. Double rate
Pyridine. Owner’s risk. Dangerous C. Double rate
Pyrites Q
Quartz and quartz tailings Q
Rabbits, dead, not otherwise specified (See also Regulation 57) C
Rabbits, dead. Minimum quantity per four-wheeled wagon, 2 tons, consigned to freezing-works D
Rabbits, dead, frozen for export. The charges computed at this rate may be reduced by 20 per cent. in any case where the Department is satisfied that the rabbits have been conveyed by rail to the freezing-works C
Rabbits, living, in cases, crates, or hampers C plus 50%
Rackarock. Owner’s risk. Dangerous C. Double rate
Radio sets, packed. If unpacked, Class C, double rate C plus 50%
Rafts. Minimum charge, 1 ton per four-wheeled wagon. When a bogie or check-wagon is used a charge as for a check-wagon will be made C plus 20%
Rags, in bales or bundles N
Rails, iron and steel, and fastenings for same, old or new, not otherwise specified N
Rails, iron, old, for scrap Q
Rape-seed E plus 50%
Raupo, in bundles D
Reapers-and-binders .. .. See Implements
Reels, life-saving D
Refrigerating machinery for use in freezing-plants in New Zealand C
Refrigerators, not otherwise specified, packed C plus 50%
Refrigerators, in sections, packed. Minimum quantity, 1 ton per consignment; any less quantity, Class C plus 50% C
Rennet, consigned direct by rail from factory D
Resin D
Restar, not otherwise specified D
Restar, consigned exclusively for use in connection with the construction or maintenance of roads which are under the jurisdiction of duly constituted local bodies. Minimum quantity, 5 tons per consignment N
Retorts, not otherwise specified C
Retorts, clay, direct ex factory. Minimum quantity, 5 cwt. per consignment D
Rice D
Rims for wheels (cart, dray, wagon, or carriage), unmanufactured D
Road-metal Q


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