THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 30, 1910.
55.-Information as to when powder vans are available and
at what hour dangerous goods can be received may be had on application to the Stationmaster.
** Dangerous Good **
56.--A list of “
Dangerous Goods " requiring special proca- Schedule of tions for their transport by Railway within the meaning of section 48 of the Railway Ordinance will only be accepted in accordance with the rules laid down in Part II., Chapter 3, of the General Rules and Regulations.
Explosives carried by goods trains only.
57.--Gunpowder, dynamite and other explosives, loaded in powder vans, will in all cases be conveyed only by goods trains.
58.--The following description of goods falls under the cate- gory of Offensive Goods," the freight on which must be prepaid goods. at the forwarding station :---
(a) Decayed vegetables, fish, meat, and any other article
in a decayed condition.
(b) Dead bodies.
Offensive
(c) Carcases.
(d) Bones.
(e) Municipal, or town sweepings.
(f) Manure, and
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(g) Rags.
59.-Dangerous and Offensive Goods must be loaded by the consignor and unloaded by the consignee, unless it be otherwise unloading specially arranged with the sanction of the General Manager.
Loading and
by owners.
Delay in
dange ous
60.---If on the arrival of any dangerous or offensive goods at their destination, the consignee does not take delivery of or delivery of remove the same within the time notified by the Railway, hey will be kept in the vehicle in which they were carried until delivery or other disposal, at the charge and risk of the consignor and consignee.
Lien on
ments.
61.-If any person fails to pay on demand made by al authorised person any rate, terminal or other charge due from him Consign- in respect of any animals or goods, the Railway may detain the whole or any of the animals or goods, or if they have been removed from the Railway, any other animal or goods of such person, then being in or thereafter coming into its possession, and may sell them by auction in liquidation of charges due, and may further recover any balance by suit or legal process.
tv o or more
62.-When any animals or goods in the possession of the
Consignments Railway are claimed by two or more persons, the Railway reserves cla.med by to itself the right of withholding their delivery until righttul prsons. ownership has been established in a Court of Law.
"to be enlled
63.--All goods addressed or consigned to be called for," Consignments to the same effect, or without any legible or intelligible direc- addressed tion, or directed to a place unknown to the Stationmaster, will be for permitted to remain on the Railway premises at the owners' risk, and subject to Railway Tariff charges immediately after their arrival, and if ot removed within one month from date of arrival they will be disposed of as unclaimed goods to satisfy all charges due to the Railway.
64.-Unclaimed goods, other than perishable articles, will unclaimed be kept on hand at the Station to which they are invoiced for a goods. period of one month, after which they will be removed to the Unclaimed Goods or Lost Property Office at Kowloon.
Wharfage 1
65,- Unclaimed consignments will be liable to wharfage and donurrage charges as well as to all freight and special expenditure ditto. incurred by the Railway on account of their custody and disposal. €6.--Lost property found in Railway vehicles or on Railway premises will be sent to the Lost Property Office at Kowloon.
Lost
property.
Sales of
67.--Sales of unclaimed or lost property by public auctioD will be held periodically of all such articles, &c., as have remained unclaimed in the possession of the Railway over six months. Due notice of fost property
goods and such sales will be given by Advertisement in the Newspapers.
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