✨ Wharfage Rates Schedules
MAY 14.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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The working hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on week-days. No ship shall
discharge or take in cargo at other times without written notice being given by the
ship's officer to the Wharfinger, under a penalty of £5 for each offence. The time
allowed for receiving coals from the trucks into ships is at the rate of 30 tons per
hour. Demurrage will be charged on such trucks as are detained beyond the time
calculated at such rate, at 5s. per truck per hour or fraction thereof.
Ships discharging or taking in cargo at other than the appointed working hours
will be charged at the rate of 2s. 6d. per hour or fraction thereof.
The captain or agent of each vessel is to supply the Wharfinger with a correct
copy of the vessel's manifest prior to discharging any cargo, under a penalty of £5
for each offence.
WESTPORT SECTION.
Wharf Rates.
For every vessel lying at a wharf, per day, per ton register ...
Minimum charge ...
For every vessel coming for coal in ballast, lying at a wharf, per day, per
ton net register ...
On every vessel tendering vessels (not entering the river) in the roadstead,
per ton net register, per trip ...
On all goods and luggage, not otherwise specified, per ton (minimum
charge, 3d.) ...
Wool, per bale ...
Timber, per 100 feet superficial ...
Firewood, per cord ...
Cattle and horses, per head ...
Sheep, pigs, goats, &c., per head ...
Hides, each ...
Palings, per 100 ...
Poultry, each ...
Shingles, per 1,000 ...
Minerals, per ton ...
Drays, four-wheel ...
دو two-wheel ...
NELSON SECTION.
RAILWAY WHARF, NELSON.
Wharfage Charges, including Labour.
Wharfage on all goods and luggage not otherwise specified, per ton weight or
measurement ...
Hops, per bale ...
Wool, per bale ...
Flax and tow, per bale ...
Sheepskins and rabbit-skins per bale, not exceeding 2 cwt. ...
Sheepskins, loose, per 100 ...
Hides, each ...
Poultry, each ...
Carts and carriages, each ...
Hand-carts or trucks, each ...
Minimum charge ...
Grain and flour conveyed by rail for export, per ton ...
Wharf Charges, exclusive of Labour.
Posts and rails, at per 100, and firewood, at per cord ...
Sawn timber, at per 100 feet ...
Horses, bullocks, and other great cattle, each ...
Sheep, pigs, and other small cattle, each ...
Bricks, per 1,000 ...
Slates, per 1,000 ...
Shingles, per 1,000 ...
Coals, coke, ballast, ore, limestone, sand, and manure, per ton ...
Half dues for wharfage to be charged on all goods transhipped into lighters, &c.,
from vessels lying alongside the wharf.
Vessels lying alongside the wharf without landing or receiving cargo shall pay d.
per ton net register per day. Minimum charge, £1.
Masters or agents to supply Wharfinger with a list of cargo to be shipped or
landed, together with the particulars of weight or measurement on which freight is
calculated, and wharfage to be paid accordingly, unless the measurement or weight
be found incorrect, in which case the same is to be paid on the correct measurement
or weight.
Goods reshipped without being removed from the wharf, and upon which inward
wharfage has been paid, to be free of outward wharfage.
Storage.
Any coal or other goods remaining on the platform more than forty-eight s. d.
hours after landing to pay at the rate of 1s. per ton for every week or part
of a week. Rent on all goods sent to the sheds and stored for vessels
which are not then in harbour or not ready to receive, and goods delivered
from ship and not taken away within eight working hours, at per ton, per
week or part of a week ...
Receiving and delivering, per ton ...
Wool, flax, and tow, per bale, and tallow per cask ...
Receiving and delivering ...
£ s. d.
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s. d.
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... 1 3
... 1 0
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... 0 3
... 2 6
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... 1 0
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... 1 6
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... 0 3
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s. d.
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Continuation of Wharf Regulations and Publication of Rates for Westport and Nelson
(continued from previous page)
🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works14 May 1881
Wharf regulations, Westport, Nelson, Cargo handling, Demurrage, Storage charges, Shipping tariffs
NZ Gazette 1881, No 36