Wharf Regulations and Fees




790
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Grain or flour, per ton .. .. .. .. 1 0
Ditto, not exceeding 200lb. bags .. .. .. 0 2
Posts and rails, per 100 .. .. .. .. 0 6
Firewood, per cord .. .. .. .. 0 6
Sawn timber, inwards or outwards, up to 1,000ft.
superficial, per 100ft. .. .. .. 0 2
Ditto, over 1,000ft. superficial, per 100ft. .. .. 0 1
Single bag or parcel .. .. .. .. 0 2
Horses or great cattle, first one .. .. .. 2 0
Ditto, all over one, each .. .. .. .. 1 0
Sheep or pigs, each .. .. .. .. 0 1
Sheep, all over 100, each .. .. .. .. 0 ½
Bricks, per 1,000 .. .. .. .. 2 0
Coal, per ton .. .. .. .. 1 0
Wool, per bale .. .. .. .. 0 2
Flax and tow, per bale .. .. .. .. 0 2
Hides, 1d. each, or per ton of 40 to the ton .. .. 2 0
Sheepskins, per bale .. .. .. .. 0 3
All other goods, either weight or measurement, at the
option of the Wharfinger, per ton .. .. 1 0
Half-dues to be charged on all goods transhipped into
lighters.
All vessels lying alongside the wharf, without landing
or receiving cargo, first day, free.
Ditto, after the first day (excepting Sundays and
holidays), per ton net register, per day .. .. 0 ½
Such passengers’ luggage or ships’ stores as are carried
in hand, not exceeding ¼ ton, shall be exempt from
wharfage charges.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS.

  1. THE owner or master of every vessel lying at wharf,
    pier, jetty, or landing-place shall, before commencing to dis-
    charge or land his cargo on any such wharf or landing-place,
    obtain the permission of the Wharfinger or his deputy so to
    do.

  2. No ballast, timber, coal, produce, or cargo of any
    description shall be embarked or shipped, disembarked or
    unshipped, except at such times and places, and in such
    order and mode, as may be directed and deemed expedient
    by the Wharfinger or his deputy for the proper working of
    the wharf.

  3. No goods or articles of any description which, in the
    opinion of the Wharfinger or his deputy, are likely to occa-
    sion damage to the wharf or landing-place shall be discharged
    or landed on any such wharf or landing-place.

  4. 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.

  5. Shippers and consignees of all goods landed on or
    shipped from the wharf or any landing-place 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 respective weights or measurements of the same
    according as freight is payable thereon. All charges to be
    paid previous to delivery of goods.

  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. The wharf shall be open daily for business from 8 a.m.
    to 5 p.m. (Sundays and holidays excepted): Provided that
    when 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.

  8. All goods landed on the wharf shall be removed there-
    from before 4 o’clock p.m. on the day on which they are
    landed, except as provided by Regulation 7.

  9. 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.

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

  11. 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.

  12. All vessels shall pay a charge not exceeding 1s. per ton
    extra, as may be fixed by the Havelock Town Board, 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. 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 Havelock Town Board to collect and
receive all dues payable under these regulations:

“Deputy” shall mean any officer acting under the instruc-
tions or by the authority of the Wharfinger or the
said Board, 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
    offending shall be liable to forfeit and pay a penalty not
    exceeding £20.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating Burgess Roll, Borough of Akaroa.

ONSLow, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth
day of July, 1889.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it has been made to appear that the burgess
roll of the Borough of Akaroa for the year com-
mencing on the first day of June, one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty-nine, was prepared and completed after the
times required by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,”
and it is expedient to validate the same :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise and
pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by
the said “Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,” doth hereby
declare that the burgess roll of the said Borough of Akaroa,
for the year commencing from the first day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, so made as afore-
said, shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as though
the same had been made within the times required by the
said Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Public Trust Office Scale of Charges varied and altered.

ONSLow, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth
day of July, 1889.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council made under “The
Public Trust Office Act, 1872,” and “The Public
Trust Office Act Amendment Act, 1873,” on the twenty-
seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-eight, a scale of charges for use in the Public Trust
Office, as set forth in the Schedule thereto, was fixed: And
whereas it is expedient to vary the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of all powers and
authorities enabling him in this behalf, and by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, doth hereby vary and alter the scale of charges set
forth in the said Schedule hereinbefore referred to in manner
set forth in the Schedule hereto, but not further or otherwise ;
and doth declare that the provisions of this Order in Council
and the variations thereby made shall come into force and
take effect from and after the date of the publication hereof
in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

THERE shall be excepted from and out of the charges under
the letters (a) and (b) in the said Schedule all sums realised
by the Public Trustee in any testate, intestate, or trust estate,
which shall consist of any balance at credit of any current
account with any bank, deposits in any savings’ bank, the
amount of any fixed deposit receipt and whether in a bank
or in or with any company or society, or moneys received
under any policy effected on a life or lives, and on these four



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🏗️ Wharfage Dues and Regulations

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