New Zealand Gazette – 1889 – No. 33

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✨ Wharf Rate Schedules



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Item £ s. d.
Hides, eaelr 0 0 1
Palings, per 100 0 0 1
Poultry, each 0 0 6
Shingles, per 1,000 0 0 1.
Minerals, per ton 0 0 6
Drays, four-wheel 0 5 0
Drays, two-wheel 0 2 6

Goods for Transhipment.

When goods are landed on wharf ex ship, and redelivered to other ships, they will
be charged 2s. 6d. per ton, according to ship's manifest, or by weight or measure-
ment, at the option of the department, including wharfage, handling, and one week's
storage, after which storage will be charged for.
Goods transhipped into lighters or vessels from vessels lying alongside the
wharves, per ton | 1 0

NELSON SECTION.
NELSON WHARF.
Rates, including Labour.

Item s. d.
Wharfage on all goods and luggage not otherwise specified, per ton weight or measurement 2 0
Hops, per bale 1 0
Wool, per bale 1 0
Native bark, packed, per ton 1 0
Flax and tow, per bale 0 6
Green flax, per ton 0 6
Sheepskins and rabbitskins per bale, not exceeding 2 cwt. 0 3
Sheepskins, loose, per 100 2 6
Hides, each 0 1
Poultry, each 0 1
Carts and carriages, each 2 6
Hand-earte or trucks, each 1 0
Minimum charge 0 6
Grain and flour 1 6
Returned empties Free.

Rates, excluding Labour.

Item s. d.
Posts and rails, at per 100, and firewood, at per cord 0 6
Sawn timber, at per 100 feet 0 1
Horses, bullocks, and other great cattle, first ten, each 2 6
Horses, bullocks, and other great cattle, over ten, each 1 6
Calves, under one year, sheep, pigs, and other small cattle, each 0 2
Bricks, per 1,000 3 0
Slates, per 1,000 3 0
Shingles, per 1,000 0 6
Coals, coke, ballast, ore, limestone, sand, and manure, per ton 1 0

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 1d.
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 hours s. d.
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 at per bale, and tallow at per cask
Receiving and delivering

Miscellaneous.

Bond marking, per package | 0 0
Setting up casks, including bond-marking, hhds., each | 1 0
" | 0 6
"

Opening, weighing, and bond-marking—
Wines and spirits, per case of 1 doz., each | 0 3
Cases Geneva excepted, each | 0 1
quarters, each | 0 6
octaves | 1 0
Large packages, from 1s. each and upwards.
Small packages, from 6d. each and upwards.
Opening and testing cases kerosene, each
Bond-weighing sugar, per ton

Cranage.

For use of crane on wharf, per ton | £ s. d. 0 0 6
For use of donkey-engine, per day | 1 10 0
For use of shear-legs, for lifting heavy weights, per day | 0 10 0
Exceptional cargoes (as may be determined by the Railway Department)
by special agreement.



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🚂 Westport Wharf Charges and Rates Schedule (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
Wharfage, Rates, Transhipment, Storage, Cargo handling

🚂 Schedule of Wharfage Rates and Charges for Nelson Wharf

🚂 Transport & Communications
Nelson, Wharf, Rates, Labour, Storage, Cranage, Livestock, Timber