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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910.

and pirate mixtures)

C

Pudrolithe

C

Pyrolithe

C

Rackarock

C

Rectified spirits

D

Rhexite

C

Ripp Lene

C

Rockets

C

Spirits of Wine

D

Sulphate of indigo, concentrated

B

Teutonite

Tonite

C

Tubes for firing explosives

Turpentine

D

Turpentine spirits of

D

Vigorite

Vitriol

C

B

War rockets

Wood spirit

Xyloidine

C

D

C

to be "offensive

15. For the purpose of the Railways Ordinance, 1909 (No. Articles 21 of 1909), the following are hereby declared to be offensive goods, gonde" viz. :-

Decayed vegetables, fish and meat, and any other article

in a decayed condition.

Dead bodies,

Carcases,

Bones,

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Municipal or town sweepings, Manure, and

Rags.

for carriage

16. (1) Save as otherwise provided by clause (4) of this rule Acceptance of and subject to any exceptions from time to time notified by the dangerous goods Railway Administration, dangerous goods shall not be accepted for carriage unless the consignor has given a written declaration that they have been packed--

(a) if they are explosives to which the rules for the time being in force apply, in accordance with those rules; and

(b) in any other case, in accordance with the rules con-

tained in Appendix A to these rules.

(2) Kerosine oil shall not be accepted for carriage unless its flashing point is declared by the consignor on the consignment note. The fashing point, as so declared, must be entered on the invoice and on the railway receipt.

(3) No goods of any kind marked C in rule 14 shall be brought on the railway premises for carriage until the officials have inti- mated that they are ready to receive them.

(4) Nothing in the rules contained in Appendix A shall apply to the packing or transport of capped safety cartridge cases, if otherwise empty, and nothing in those rules shall apply to medical stores consigned from a Government depot, or to explosives con- signed by the Ordnance Department, respectively, notwithstanding that such stores are dangerous goods within the meaning of rule 14.

Provided that the officer in charge of the depot or such officer as the Director-General of Ordnance may by general or special per.nission empower in this behalf, has given a written declaration of the contents of the packages and certified on the consignment note that they have been packed in accordance with the regulations of the Medical or Ordnance Department, as the case may be, for the time being in force relating to the packing of dangerous goods.

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