✨ Wharf Rates and Mining Company Registration
Every horse not drawing any ve- hicle 0 6
Every head of great cattle 0 6
Every pig, sheep, or goat 0 1
FOR THE USE OF THE CRANES ON EACH OF THE SAID WHARVES, PIERS, AND JETTIES, RESPECTIVELY:
For every licensed cargo boat, per load 2 6
For every registered coasting vessel, per load 5 0
FOR LANDING GOODS, WARES, AND MERCHANDISE ON EACH OF THE SAID WHARVES, PIERS, AND JETTIES, RESPECTIVELY:
s. d.
Tun butt, each 2 6
Pipe or puncheon, each 1 3
Hogshead, each 0 8
Barrel, tierce, or quarter-cask, each 0 3
Octave, keg, or firkin 0 2
Case, cask, crate, bale, box, bundle, bag, trunk, or other package containing goods not otherwise mentioned, measuring 80 feet, and not exceeding 50 feet, each 2 6
Do., do., over 50 feet each 3 0
Do., do., over 15 feet, and not exceeding 30 feet each 2 0
Do., do., over 5 feet, and not exceeding 15 feet each 1 0
Do., do., over 3 feet, and not exceeding 5 feet each 0 6
Do., do., over 2 feet, and not exceeding 3 feet each 0 4
Do., do., under 2 feet, each 0 2
Chests of tea, each 0 4
Half do. do. 0 2
Quarter do., do., or box 0 1
Fruit, in cases or crates, at per ton measurement 1 6
Case, cask, or other package of any liquid in bottle (reputed pints and quarts), tin, jar, carboy, or drum, 5 gallons and upwards 0 4
Do., do., under 5 gallons 0 2
Sugar, coffee, rice, dried fruits, tallow, soap, paint, potatoes, meat, salt, cordage, flax, oakum, nails, shot, iron sheeting, metal, steel, lead, or other loose metal, machinery, or other heavy articles not otherwise enumerated, per cwt. 0 2
Candles per 100lbs. 0 2
Coals per ton 1 6
Flour per ton of 2,000lbs. 2 0
Hay per ton 2 6
Guano per ton 1 6
Bone Dust per ton 1 6
Stone per ton 1 6
Pig Iron per ton 1 6
Timber per load of 50 cubic feet (and in proportion for any greater or less quantity) 2 6
Sawn timber per 100 feet 0 6
Oars, spades, shovels, forks, and other similar articles, per dozen 0 2
Fractional part of a dozen to pay as a dozen.
Brooms, handles, staves, handspikes, gunstocks, and small pieces of shaped wood, per score 0 2
Fractional part of a score to pay as a score.
For all kinds of grain, per bushel 0 0½
Four-wheel carriage 10 0
Two-wheel carriage 5 0
Four-wheel cart or waggon 5 0
Two-wheel cart or waggon 2 6
Pianos or harmoniums, each 5 0
Tubs and buckets, loose, each 0 1
Chairs, if loose, each 0 1
Whale oil, per tun 2 6
Iron tanks, each 2 6
Lime, per bushel 0 1
Slates, per 1000 3 6
Posts and rails, per 100 2 6
Shingles, per 1000 0 6
Palings, per 100 0 6
Bricks, per 100 0 3
Excepting only such coals, firewood, timber, bricks, palings, shingles, posts and rails, lime, fruit, flax, and gum, as are bona fide the produce of the Province of Auckland upon which no charge shall be levied.
And I appoint that the rates, dues, and charges hereby imposed, and none other, shall, subject to the exemptions above stated, be levied on and after Saturday the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Given under my hand at Auckland, this twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.
THE undersigned WILLIAM BENNETT HOWELL, hereby make application to Register the Greenstone Gold-Mining Company, registered under the provisions of the "Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1865," and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is to the best of my belief and knowledge true in every particular, namely:—
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The name and style of the Company is "The Greenstone Gold-Mining Company, Registered."
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The place of operations of the Company is at the Karaka Creek, in the Thames Goldfield, Province of Auckland.
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The nominal capital of the Company is £5,000, in 1,000 shares of £5 each.
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The amount already paid up is Three thousand two hundred pounds.
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The name of the Manager is William Bennett Howell.
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The Office of the Company is at the Greenstone Claim, at the Karaka Creek, Thames Goldfield aforesaid.
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Public Notification of Wharf Rates and Charges
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🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works29 April 1869
Wharf, Rates, Charges, Harbour, Auckland
- J. Williamson, Superintendent
🌾 Registration of Greenstone Gold-Mining Company
🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesMining, Company Registration, Gold, Thames Goldfield, Auckland
- William Bennett Howell, Applicant for company registration
Auckland Provincial Gazette 1869, No 24