Jan. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 13

GOODS WHARFAGE.

16. Every person who uses any wharf under the control of the Council for landing or shipping any goods shall pay to the Council wharf dues as follows, that is to say,—
    (1.) For all timber, 1s. per 1,000 superficial feet.
    (2.) For all ship’s ballast carted over or on a wharf, 6d. per ton.
    (3.) For all goods (except such as are hereinafter provided for) landed on or shipped from any wharf, a rate of 1s. per ton weight or measurement at the option of the Council.
    (4.) The following goods shall be charged wharfage at the above-named rate of 1s. per ton weight.

List of Goods to be charged at per Ton Wharfage on Weight or Measurement.

Anchors. Malt, 12 sacks to the ton.
Anvils. Manganese.
Bacon and hams, loose. Mangel-wurzel.
Bark. Manures.
Barley, 12 sacks to the ton. Meal, all sorts, 2,000 lb. to the ton.
Beans, 10 sacks to the ton. Meat, in carcase.
Bolts and nuts. Melons, loose.
Bonedust. Muntz-metal.
Bones. Nails.
Bran, 10 sacks to the ton. Oatmeal, 10 sacks to the ton.
Brass, in pig, bars, or sheets. Oats, 12 sacks to the ton.
Broom, corn. Onions, 12 sacks or 16 gunnies to the ton.
Butter, in kegs. Ores.
Carrots, 12 sacks to the ton. Oysters, 12 sacks to the ton.
Caustic soda. Paint.
Cement. Peanuts, 15 sacks to the ton.
Cement (local), 40 bushels. Pearl barley, 10 sacks to the ton.
Chaff, 20 sacks (local, 30 sacks) to the ton. Peas, 10 sacks to the ton.
Chain. Plaster.
Chalk. Pollard, 12 sacks to the ton.
Charcoal, 20 sacks to the ton. Potatoes, 12 sacks or 16 gunnies to the ton.
Clover-seed. Pumice, 20 sacks to the ton.
Coal. Pumpkins, loose.
Cocoanuts, 10 sacks to the ton. Quartz.
Coffee, in bags. Quicksilver.
Coke, 20 sacks to the ton. Resin, 6 casks to the ton.
Copper, bar or sheet. Rice.
Copra. Rivets.
Cotton. Rope, in coils.
Drainpipes. Sago.
Fencing-wire, plain, in coils. Salt.
Fibre. Salt meat, in kegs or casks.
Fireclay. Sash-weights.
Flax. Shale.
Flour, 2,000 lb. to the ton. Sharps, 12 sacks to the ton.
Fungus, 20 sacks or 5 bales. Shot.
Grass-seed, 15 sacks to the ton. Slates.
Guano. Soap, common.
Gypsum. Stone.
Hay. Straw.
Iron, bar, rod, pig, sheet, or scrap. Sugar.
Kauri-gum, 12 sacks to the ton. Sulphur.
Lead, sheet or pig. Tailings.
Lime, 40 bushels to the ton. Tallow.
Linseed, 10 sacks to the ton. Tapioca.
Machinery, where 40 cubic feet weigh over 20 cwt. Tin, sheet or pig.
Maize, 10 sacks to the ton. Vegetables, 12 sacks to the ton.
Wheat, 10 sacks to the ton.
Whiting.
Zinc, sheet or pig.

Weight shall be gross weight — i.e., including covering.

(5.) Boxes, jars, packages, or parcels not exceeding 6 cubic feet shall be charged each 3d.

(6.) Boxes, jars, packages, or parcels exceeding 6 cubic feet shall be charged each 6d.

All goods not being boxes, jars, packages, or parcels and not included in the weight-list above or of which 40 cubic feet shall weigh less than 20 cwt. shall be charged wharfage at per ton measurement. Measurement shall be outside measurement of all packages.

17. Every person whose goods are stored in any shed or upon any wharf shall pay in respect of such goods and the storage thereof the following charges, that is to say,—
    For the first forty-eight hours for storage charges—

s. d.
Bacon, side or roll, and hams, each .. 0 3
Butter, keg or box, each .. 0 3
Beer, ale, or stout, case or keg, each .. 0 6
Cement or lime, casks or sacks, per bushel .. 0 1½
Chaff, bran, or sharps, per sack .. 0 1
Earthenware, drainpipes, tiles, per cubic foot .. 0 1
Flour, grain, and other produce n.o.e., per sack 0 2
Furniture in general, per cubic foot .. 0 0½
General merchandise n.o.e., per cubic foot .. 0 1
Hides, each .. 0 1
Hay, per cubic foot .. 0 0½
Ironwork and machinery n.o.e., per cwt. .. 0 1½
Kauri-gum, per sack .. 0 3
Manures, per cwt. .. 0 1½
Paint, oil, and varnish, keg or drum, each .. 0 2
Sheep-skins, per dozen .. 0 3
Saddles, with or without bridles, each .. 0 3
Sashes and doors, each .. 0 3
Wool in bales, each .. 0 6
Wire and nails, per cwt. .. 0 1½
Boxes, jars, packages, or parcels exceeding 6 cubic feet measurement, each .. 0 6
Boxes, jars, packages, or parcels not exceeding 6 cubic feet measurement, each .. 0 3

After the first forty-eight hours an additional charge of half the above rates shall be payable for every week or part of a week that goods remain in the sheds.

18. No person shall remove goods from any wharf, pier, jetty, or landing-place without having previously paid the dues payable thereon.

19. If any goods remain for more than three hours on any wharf, or in or upon the approaches thereto, the wharfinger may remove the same to any of the premises of the Council or other convenient place, and keep the same until payment to the Council of the expenses of such removal and of the keeping of the goods and of any other charges due to the Council thereupon, and, in default of payment, may, in the manner and in the time provided by section 73 of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” sell the same, and may exercise on behalf of the Council all the powers contained in the said section 73.

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

21. No person shall deposit any ballast, coal, coke, patent or other fuel on any wharf or in any shed without special permission from the wharfinger.

22. (1.) No ashes, rubbish, or refuse shall be landed on any wharf or other landing-place until vehicles are brought alongside to receive them.
    (2.) Three hours’ notice must be given to the wharfinger of the intention to land any rubbish, ashes, or refuse.

23. No goods or articles of any description which, in the opinion of the wharfinger, are likely to occasion damage to any wharf or shed shall be discharged or landed on any such wharf or placed in any such shed.

24. No person shall place or leave upon any wharf, or in any shed, any vegetable or animal matter or goods which are in a state of decay or putrefaction; and any goods which are, in the opinion of the wharfinger, unfit to remain on a wharf, or harmful to other goods stored on the wharf or in any shed, may be removed from the wharf by the Council, and the consignee or owner of such goods shall upon demand repay to the Council the cost of such removal.

25. It shall not be lawful for any person to remove any goods from any warehouse or wharf until all wharfage entries are passed on the form prescribed by the Council, and all dues paid in respect of such goods, and a receipt from the wharfinger for all dues payable, or an authority to deliver such goods from some officer of the Council, shall have been obtained.

26. All explosives, kerosene, and all goods of a dangerous or inflammable character shall be removed by the owner, agent, or consignee immediately on being landed, and such owner, agent, or consignee failing to do so will be held responsible for any damage or loss that may accrue from any accident