New Zealand Gazette – 1897 – No. 89

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✨ Freight Rates



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 89

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GOODS.

LOCAL RATES—continued.

Except where otherwise specified, all descriptions of merchandise, timber,
minerals, or live-stock hauled between the Auckland Railway-station and the
Railway Wharf will be charged 2s. 6d. per truck. Double-bogie trucks will be
charged double rate.

Goods and live-stock consigned direct from or to the Auckland Railway Wharf
to or from stations on the Auckland Section (Auckland excepted) will be hauled
between the Railway Wharf and Railway-station at Auckland free of charge.

Lime and sulphur, loaded at Auckland, previously carried to Auckland by rail,
will be hauled from the Railway-station to the Railway Wharf at Auckland free of
charge.

NAPIER-TARANAKI SECTION.

Goods of Classes A, B, C, D, E, N, P, between Palmerston and Longburn, booked
between Palmerston and stations on the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company's
line, will be charged 2s. 6d. per ton; and Class H 6d. per bale undumped, 1s. per
bale double-dumped.

The maximum rate for butter and cheese, in 4-ton lots, consigned by way of the
Manawatu Company's line to Wellington, will be 40s. per ton.

Limed pelts and tallow, in casks, consigned from Longburn to Foxton, will be
charged 7s. 6d. per ton, including wharfage. Minimum quantity, 4 tons.

Flax and tow delivered at Foxton Railway-station to await shipment will be
charged 6d. per bale, which will include receiving into shed, loading-up, and delivery
to ships in trucks alongside wharf.

The maximum rate for firewood consigned from Woodville-Piri Piri and inter-
mediate stations to Hastings-Spit and intermediate stations will be 30s. per truck
of 6 tons. This rate will operate until 31st March, 1898.

CLASS H.—WOOL, ETC.

Class H, undumped, will be charged as follows per bale from the stations named
below:—

From To Spit. To Foxton. To Farndon. To Wanganui.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Whakatu, Tomoana, Hastings ... 0 11* ... ... ...
Farndon ... 0 8* ... ... ...
Spit ... ... ... 0 8* ...
Feilding (for shipment) ... 3 0† ... ...
Palmerston, Longburn ... ... 2 0† ... ...
Carnarvon ... ... 0 9* ... ...
Turakina, Wangaehu ... ... ... ... 1 6
Woodville — Matamau and inter-
mediate stations ... 6 0 ... ... ...
  • These rates will also apply to scoured wool in bales not exceeding 2¼ cwt. each, notwithstanding regulation under Part III.
    † These rates include wharfage.

Class H, undumped, from the under-mentioned stations, consigned direct to
Wellington via Foxton, will be charged at the following through rates per bale for
conveyance by rail and steamer, and including wharfage at Foxton :—



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Freight Rates, Railway, Goods, Local Rates, Auckland, Napier-Taranaki, Wool