Low Grade Oil.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 7, 1 May 1907, Page 260

Low Grade Oil.

Mr. J. A. Hanan, M.H.R.. has recently been in correspondence with the Hon J. A. Millar, Minister for Trade and Customs concerning the importation of low-grade kerosene. It had been brought to Mr. Hanan's notice that quantities of low flashpoint oil are being introduced into the colonies from America, and he drew the attention of the Minister to the matter, and inquired what regulations were in existence by which the traffic could be regulated or prohibited. The Minister replied that there are no provisions

requiring all kerosene for importation to be of 150deg. fire test, but that mineral oils which vaporised at a lower temperature than HOdeg. were regarded as explosives by harbour authorities in handling them as cargo. Further than this the law made no provision. Dangerous goods could not be prevented from landing, but the Harbours Act, 1878, gave ;ower to regulate the landing and shipping of them.