New Zealand Gazette – 1869 – No. 61

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✨ Port Charges Schedule Continuation



WHERE TO BE LEVIED. | LIGHT DUES. | PILOTAGE. | PORT CHARGES. | SHIFTING OR HARBOURMASTERS' FEES. | FEES FOR BOAT LICENSES. | FEES FOR LICENSES TO BOATMEN AND WATERMEN.

Province or District. Port. Charged at each time of entering Inwards only. Per Ton Register. Charges both Inwards and Outwards. Per Ton Register. Classes of Vessels which pay Port Charges, and how levied. Per Register or Measured Ton. Services for which Shifting Fees are charged. Per Register or Measured Ton. Classes of Boats for which Licenses are Issued. Annual Charge. Classes to whom Licenses are Issued. Annual Charge.
SOUTHLAND- continued. Invercargill ... d. Sailing vessels ... 6 d. 6 All vessels plying within the port, or engaged in coasting only, half-yearly, in advance ... 3 d. 3 Same as at Bluff Har- bour d. Same as at Bluff Harbour. £ s. d. Same as at Bluff Harbour. £ s. d.
Steamers ... 4 d. 4 All vessels not plying within the port, or not engaged in coast- ing only, on arrival Not to exceed six- pence per ton in any one half-year. 1 1
Riverton ... d. Sailing vessels ... 6 d. 6 Port charges to be the same as at Bluff Harbour. Ditto 1 Ditto. Ditto.
Steamers ... 4 d. 4
Vessels under 50 tons exempt.

NOTE.—No pilotage shall be charged for New River (Invercargill) unless the Pilot Establishment is in proper working order, or a Pilot is taken round from Bluff Harbour.

NOTES.—1. In addition to the Pilotage rates in the above Schedule there is a charge of 15s. per day
for the first three days, and 10s. per day after the first three, for any period that a Pilot may be
detained on board any vessel, whether by stress of weather, quarantine, or otherwise. (See "Harbour
and Quarantine Regulations for the Ports of New Zealand," Clause 13, in New Zealand Gazette for
1868, p. 279.)

  1. Where Municipal Corporations have been established under "The Municipal Corporations Act,
    1867," and have adopted section 3 of Part X. of the thirteenth Schedule to the said Act (referring to
    boats and boatmen) the provisions of the Harbour Regulations regarding boats and boatmen, and the
    foregoing scale of License Fees, are by the said Act superseded.

  2. There are licensed Adjusters of Compasses at Otago, Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, and
    Auckland; and at Otago, Wellington, and Nelson, special conveniences for swinging vessels have been
    fitted. The authorized scale of fees is as follows:—
    For vessels under 50 tons ... £3 3s.
    " from 50 to 100 tons ... £4 4s.
    " from 100 to 300 tons ... £5 5s.
    " from 300 to 500 tons ... £6 6s.
    " over 500 tons ... £7 7s.

  3. By the Harbour and Quarantine Regulations for New Zealand it is provided (Clause 21) that
    "vessels in distress, and whaling vessels, putting into any port through stress of weather, or for water
    or provisions, or to refit, are to be exempt from all port dues and from pilotage, except where the
    services of a pilot are actually made use of."

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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💰 Order in Council fixing Marine Port Charges and Fees (Continuation) (continued from previous page)

💰 Finance & Revenue
6 October 1869
Port charges, Light dues, Pilotage, Fees, Licenses, Southland, Invercargill, Riverton, Compass Adjusters, Vessel exemptions
  • FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council