✨ Wharf Regulations, Treasury, Postage




JAN. 17.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 37

that may accrue to any such cargo or produce, by the
elements or otherwise, during the time they may so remain
on the wharf: Provided always that the Wharfinger shall
not be bound to find storage room either in the sheds or on
the wharf or landing-place for any cargo or produce when
no sufficient accommodation is available for that purpose.

  1. No person taking any vehicle on the wharf shall allow
    the same to go at greater than a walking pace.

  2. Any person taking any vehicle drawn by one horse on
    the wharf or jetty on which vehicles or horses are permitted
    to be taken shall walk at the head of and lead his horse, and
    remain by the same so long as the vehicle is on the said
    wharf, pier, or jetty; and no person shall ride on horseback
    on the wharf, pier, or jetty, but shall dismount and lead his
    horse.

  3. Any person taking any vehicle drawn by two or more
    horses on any such wharf, pier, or jetty, as mentioned in the
    preceding regulation, shall ride on the said vehicle so as to
    keep the horses attached thereto as far as possible under his
    control while the said vehicle is in motion, and shall stand
    by the said vehicle when and so long as the same shall be
    at a stand-still on any such wharf, pier, or jetty.

  4. All persons in charge of vehicles shall be under the con-
    trol of the Wharfinger or his deputy, and such persons
    shall, immediately on being so ordered by the said Wharfinger
    or his deputy, remove such vehicle to any part of the wharf
    to which he may be directed, or shall, if so required by the
    said Wharfinger or his deputy, remove such vehicle alto-
    gether from the wharf. No person shall be allowed to take
    any bicycle or tricycle upon the said wharf except for the
    sake of shipment, or by permission of the Wharfinger or his
    deputy.

  5. No person shall disobey the orders of the Wharfinger or
    his deputy, when acting in the due performance of their duty,
    nor in any way obstruct the traffic on any wharf, pier, jetty,
    or landing-place, nor make use of abusive or improper lan-
    guage thereon.

  6. All goods landed on any wharf or landing-place, or
    brought thereon for shipment, are to be placed as the
    Wharfinger or his deputy may direct, and no goods or other
    articles shall be placed in any shed, or on any wharf or
    landing-place, so as to be an impediment to the approaches,
    or an obstacle to the removal of other goods from shed,
    wharf, or landing-place, or so as to encumber the mooring-
    posts or rings on any such wharf or landing-place.

  7. Shippers and consignees of all goods landed on or
    shipped from the said wharf shall, before landing or shipping
    such goods, deliver to the Wharfinger or his deputy a full
    and true account of all such goods, stating the respec-
    tive weights or measurements of the same according as
    freight is payable thereon. All charges to be paid previous
    to delivery of goods.

  8. The master of every vessel shall, on demand, give to
    the Wharfinger, or other person deputed by him, a copy of
    the bill of lading, freight-list, or manifest of the cargo, or
    other proper account of all goods intended to be unshipped
    from the vessel, and the name or names of the owners to
    whom all or any goods in such vessel are intended to be
    delivered.

  9. The wharf shall be open daily for business from 8 a.m.
    to 5 p.m. (Sundays and holidays excepted): Provided that
    when the steamers arrive before 8 a.m. then the wharf shall
    be open from the time of the arrival of the steamer; and if
    after 5 p.m., for one hour after the time of discharging. Goods
    to be removed during those hours without storage being
    charged. The charges on goods landed, or landed and stored
    on Sundays and holidays, shall be paid by the ship, con-
    signees paying single wharfage only.

  10. All goods landed on the wharf shall be removed there-
    from or stored before 4 o'clock p.m. on the day on which
    they are landed, except as provided for by Regulation 14.

  11. The Wharfinger is empowered to take charge of and
    store cargo if not removed by the consignee within six hours
    after being landed, or to cause the same to be delivered to
    the consignee at his expense and risk: Provided that any
    consignee may notify to the Wharfinger in writing that he
    will remove his goods that day and does not require stor-
    age. The Wharfinger's liability for loss or damage done to
    the goods while waiting removal to cease from the time of
    receipt of notice. Labour for loading, if required, to be
    supplied by the Wharfinger to 5 p.m. Goods such as bricks,
    coal, timber, and iron may be left on the wharf for two work-
    ing days at the request of the consignee, without liability to
    extra charge for wharfage and free of storage (provided that
    the proper working of the wharf is not obstructed); but the
    Wharfinger shall not be responsible for the safety of such
    goods.

  12. All vessels shall pay not exceeding 1s. per ton extra
    on all cargo landed before 8 a.m. and after 4 p.m., exclusive
    of labour. Wool, skins, fungus, and flax shall be charged for
    at the rate of 3d. per bale. No extra charge shall be made
    for coal, ballast, or timber discharged or shipped during extra
    hours.

  13. Goods landed for reshipment shall have precedence of
    all other goods stored in the sheds.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

  1. In the construction of the above regulations the terms
    and expressions following shall have the meanings herein-
    after assigned to them:-

"Wharfinger" shall mean and include the person ap-
pointed by the Kaikoura County Council or Wharfinger
to collect and receive all dues payable under this
Order in Council:

"Deputy" shall mean any officer acting under the instruc-
tions or by the authority of the Wharfinger or Kaikoura
County Council, as the case may be.

  1. If any person fails, refuses, or neglects to do anything
    required by these regulations, or in any manner obstructs,
    impedes, or interferes with the doing of anything enjoined or
    authorised to be done, or wilfully does anything prohibited
    by these regulations, every such person in any case so offend-
    ing shall be liable to forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding
    Β£5.

  2. No person or persons shall deposit goods of any de-
    scription upon the public highway or lands vested in the
    Kaikoura County Council, or on any land vested in the said
    Council adjacent to the wharf.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additional Treasury Regulations.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth
day of January, 1889.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council hereby directs
that the following additional regulations, made in
pursuance of section 5 of "The Public Revenues Act, 1878,"
shall come into operation on the date hereof:-

II. REVENUE AND RECEIPTS.
Law Trust Deposits.

53a. The Receiver-General may at any time require that
any sum of money which has been paid into a Receiver's
Law Trust Deposit Account shall be paid into the Receiver-
General's Deposit Account, and the Receiver shall, when so
directed, pay the amount to the bank for credit of the
Receiver-General's Deposit Account at Wellington, and shall
obtain from the bank a receipt in the form in the sixth
schedule hereto, which he shall forthwith forward to the
Receiver-General, together with a memorandum of particu-
lars of the lodgment.

  1. Whenever any sum of money in the Receiver-General's
    Deposit Account is required for payment to the person
    entitled thereto, the Receiver shall apply, by telegraph if
    necessary, to the Receiver-General, who will thereupon re-
    pay the amount so required to credit of the Receiver's Law
    Trust Deposit Account.

III. EXPENDITURE,
General.

62 (5). That the authority for payment to the agent, if
any, is in proper form, and is stamped as required by law.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Rates of Postage.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth
day of January, 1889.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in him by "The Post Office Act, 1881," His
Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, doth hereby abolish the rates of
postage heretofore fixed to be paid within the colony for the
transmission of letters, newspapers, and packets to places
beyond seas, and in lieu thereof doth order and declare
that the rates of postage payable within the colony for the
transmission of all letters, newspapers, and packets by post
to the several places beyond seas respectively mentioned in
the Schedule hereto shall be those specified in the Schedule
hereto, and that such rates of postage shall in all cases be
paid at the time such letters, newspapers, and packets are
delivered into the Post Office; and, with the like advice
and consent as aforesaid, doth further order and declare
that this order shall take effect on and after the fifteenth
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.



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