✨ Railway Freight Rates
1768
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 93
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GOODS.
LOCAL RATES—continued.
CLASS Q, FROM GREENHILLS.
Road-metal, ships' ballast, and gravel from Greenhills to Bluff or Invercargill
will be charged 1s. 6d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 tons per truck.
CLASSES A, B, C, D, DISTRICT RAILWAYS.
The following rates for goods of Classes A, B, C, and D (except mining ma-
chinery, and preserved meat from local factories,) will be charged upon the District
Railways stated below, viz. :
Ashburton Forks, Waimate, Duntroon and Hakateramea, and Waimea Plains—
s. d.
Classes A, B, per ton per mile ... ... ... ... ... 0 9
Classes C, D, per ton per mile ... ... ... ... ... 0 6
For local traffic on the district railway-lines and between the terminal stations
and stations intermediate the minimum charges will be not less than the classified
rates.
Goods booked through between stations not situated on the Waimea Plains
District Railway will be charged for conveyance over the District Railway—
s. d.
Classes A, B, per ton ... ... ... ... ... 16 0
Classes C, D, per ton ... ... ... ... ... 10 0
COAL FROM JETTY STREET WHARF, DUNEDIN.
Shunting coal from Jetty Street Wharf, Dunedin, to Pelichet Bay Sidings will be
charged 1s. 6d. per ton ; minimum charge, 7s. 6d. per truck.
COAL FROM NIGHTCAPS.
A terminal charge of 2s. 6d. per ton will be made on all coal loaded at the public
sidings on the Nightcaps Coal Company's Railway at Nightcaps Station in addition
to the ordinary rates.
PAPER FROM LOCAL PAPER-MILLS.
Paper consigned from local paper-mills will be charged Class C, half-rate.
Minimum quantity, 10cwt. Any less quantity will be charged as such minimum,
or at the classified rates for Class D.
CHEESE.
The maximum rate for cheese in 4-ton lots, consigned from factories south of
Dunedin to Bluff, Invercargill, Dunedin, or Port Chalmers will be 23s. per ton.
For cheese in 4-ton lots, consigned from factories north of Oamaru to Oamaru,
Timaru, Christchurch, or Lyttelton, the maximum rate will be 23s. per ton.
GOODS OF CLASSES A, B, C, D (BRANCH LINES).
One penny per ton per mile will be charged in addition to the classified rates on
goods of Classes A, B, C, D, on the following branch lines: Rangiora to Sheffield,
Eyreton, Springfield, Whitecliffs, Lincoln to Little River, Mount Somers, Waimate,
Duntroon, Ngapara, Livingston, Waihemo, Otago Central, Catlin's River, Tapanui,
Wyndham, Seaward Bush, Invercargill to Kingston, Mararoa, Riverton, and
Riverton-Nightcaps; but such addition to be made only for the distance goods are
carried on the branch. Mining machinery is excepted from this regulation.
SHIPS' GOODS ON PORT LINES.
The following ships' goods will be carried by measurement at half-rates on the
lines stated below, viz.: Combines, grass-seed-cleaning machines, omnibuses, tram-
cars, and flock and kapok in bales.
LINES:—
Onehunga-Auckland. Lyttelton-Christchurch.
Picton-Blenheim, Port Chalmers-Dunedin.
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