✨ Railway Freight Classification
GOODS, LIVESTOCK, PARCELS, AND LUGGAGE—continued
- Classification of Goods, Livestock, etc.—continued
Paragraph 4—continued
Omit:
Cases, for fruit ... See regulation 91 D
Empty containers, returned See regulation 88
Empty containers (not returned), not otherwise specified ... C plus 50%
Empty tank wagons ... See regulation 89
Gas cylinders (not returned) ... C
Steel bottle crates for use in service stations ... C plus 50%
Tins, consigned to cheese factories, not “returned empties”, but when
full to be forwarded by rail ... D
Tins, consigned to meat-preserving works, fish-preserving or freezing-
works, not “returned empties”, but when full to be forwarded by rail D
Film spools, photographic, returned empties See regulation 88
Fish cans, empty, for carriage by rail of ova for acclimatisation purposes,
as returned empties ... See regulation 88
Fish cans, returned empty, which have been used for the carriage of fish
ova by rail ... See regulation 88
Furniture, (including metal-framed furniture) as under-
Coverings, returned ... See regulation 88
Gas cylinders, empty, not otherwise specified ... C
Gas cylinders, returned empties ... See regulation 88
Glass jars, empty ... C
Jars, glass, empty ... C
Military equipment for use of Armed Services Departments (exclusive of
aeroplanes, ammunition, and explosives of any description, bicycles
(pedal), furniture, musical instruments, pillows or gymnastic appliances),
but including ammunition boxes, battery acid, Bren-gun carriers,
clothing, guns, gun carriages, machine guns, mattresses (wire or slat),
motor cycles without sidecars, radio and radar equipment, rifles, stools,
stores, table tops and trestles, and uniforms ... C
The following articles when forwarded to Armed Services Departments
will be charged as follows-
Empty containers, not otherwise specified, not “returned empties”
As “empties”
Brass cartridge or shell cases ... E plus 50%
Grenades (hand and rifle) and bombs ... As gun ammunition
Model aeroplanes ... As parcels
Motor vehicles-
Not exceeding 30 cwt in weight. As per regulation 83, or, if cheaper .. C
Exceeding 30 cwt in weight ... C
Photographic film spools, returned empties ... See regulation 88
Spools, photographic film, returned empties ... See regulation 88
Suitcases, empty-
Not otherwise specified ... C plus 50%
Two or more nested ... C
Trunks, empty, not “returned empties” ... C plus 50%
Wine butts, pipes, or vats, empty (not “returned empties”) ... C plus 50%
Insert:
Bottles, glass, empty, new ... C
Empties as under-
Beer cylinders or kegs, empty ... D
Boxes or cartons, cardboard, n.o.s. ... C. Double rate
Boxes or cartons, cardboard, completely collapsed or nested, packed in
cases or crates or securely tied in bundles, n.o.s. ... C
Boxes or cartons, cardboard, completely collapsed or nested, packed in
cases or crates or securely tied in bundles, consigned to dairy or
dried-milk factories, and when full to be forwarded by rail ... D less 25%
Empty cases, and empty punnets in crates, to be used as containers for
New Zealand grown fresh fruit, consigned direct to bona fide fruit-
growers, fruit growers’ agents or associations ... C
Cylinders, gas, empty ... D
Empty containers (cans, cases, casks, crates, drums, kegs, tins or tubs)
new ... C plus 50%
Empty containers (cans, cases, casks, crates, drums, kegs, tins or tubs)
used ... C
Empty tank wagons ... See regulation 89
Jars, glass, empty ... C
Steel bottle crates for use in service stations ... C plus 50%
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