Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1856 – No. 23

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✨ Trade Statistics and Harbour Regulations



RETURN, showing the Number, Tonnage, and Crews of Coasters reported

Inwards and Outwards; and of the Imports, Coastwise, of New Zealand Produce; at the Port of Kawhia, for the Quarter ended 30th June, 1856.

INWARDS.

Vessels. Tonnage. Crews.
5 188 14

OUTWARDS.

Vessels. Tonnage. Crews.
5 188 14

IMPORTS COASTWISE.

Articles. Quantity. Value.
Butter 1 keg £3 0 0
Flour 4 tons, 10 cwt. 90 0 0
Potatoes 6 do. 5 do. 12 10 0
Seed, Grass 9 bags 5 0 0
Sheep 65 97 10 0
Wheat 60 bushels 18 0 0
Total £226 0 0

George M. Mitford,
Sub-Collector.

Harbour Master’s Office,
7th August, 1856

THE attention of the Public is directed to the following clauses taken from the Harbour Regulations for this Port.

I. J. Burgess,
Harbour Master.

No rubbish or filth is to be landed on any lands belonging to the Crown, except in such places as the Harbour Master may point out, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.

  1. No timber or any bulky article is to be left on any Public Wharf or landing place under a penalty of any sum not exceeding five pounds.

  2. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stone, or filth, is to be thrown over board from any vessel or boat, but it is to be landed at any place the Harbour Master may direct, under a penalty of any sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

  3. Any person throwing a dead animal into the Harbour (within the limits of the anchorage) without attaching to it sufficient weight to sink it, is liable to a penalty of not more than twenty pounds or less than five shillings.

  4. Any person removing shingle, stone, shells, or any part of the soil below high water mark without permission from the Harbour Master, or in the absence of the Harbour Master, the Resident Magistrate, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

Auckland:—Printed by Williamson & Wilson
for the Provincial Government.




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🏭 Exports Coastwise from Kawhia (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Exports, Trade, Kawhia, Statistics
  • George M. Mitford, Sub-Collector

🏛️ Harbour Regulations for Port of Kawhia

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
7 August 1856
Harbour Regulations, Port of Kawhia, Penalties
  • I. J. Burgess, Harbour Master