Wharf Regulations and Charges




2584

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 86

  1. All goods landed on the wharf, or brought thereon for
    shipment, shall be placed as the Harbourmaster, wharfinger,
    or other person in charge, may direct, so as to leave all
    mooring posts or rings free and all rails or tramways clear.

  2. Every person who removes, or causes to be removed, the
    master or other person in charge of the said vessel or
    craft from such part of the wharf, or so much thereof, where
    he or it shall have placed, or caused to be placed any vessel
    or boat, and to be deposited at such places as may be
    appointed by the Harbourmaster or wharfinger in charge.

  3. No boat shall be made fast to any steps or landing
    place, or to any vessels made fast to the steps, or to other
    vessels, nor shall any boat lie longer alongside than is required
    for immediate purpose.

  4. Any person taking a cart or other vehicle on the wharf
    shall have to pay for the use thereof, which he shall, on the
    remain by the same while the vehicle is on the wharf ; and
    he shall at all times obey the orders of the Harbourmaster or
    wharfinger in charge as to the place where he shall stand or
    deposit the same.

  5. All watermen, stevedores, carters, and other persons
    resorting to the wharf, shall conform to the orders of the
    Harbourmaster, wharfinger, or other person in charge, and
    shall move their vessels when and as may be directed.

  6. No person shall in any way obstruct or impede traffic
    on the wharf, or make use of any improper language thereon,
    or other improper language thereon.

  7. (a) No person shall contravene or as specifically per
    mitted by these regulations obstruct or impede ingress to, or
    egress from, the wharf or any vessel lying at, made fast or
    in any way to, the wharf.

(b) If in each of this clauses any person obstructs or
impedes ingress or egress to the wharf such person is liable
being ordered to so do by the wharfinger or other person in
charge, such person continues to refuse such order he is the
penalty to which such person is liable, the officer in charge
may remove, or cause to be removed, the person and such
reasonable force as is necessary for such purpose.

  1. The wharfinger shall have the power to close the wharf,
    or any part of the wharf, at any time, and any person not being
    able to do so, and no person shall enter upon the wharf or
    remain on the wharf when it is closed, or any part thereof.

  2. The master of every vessel lying at the wharf shall
    give ingress and egress freely to and from the vessel to and from
    passengers, and shall either vacate his berth or assist the
    removal of his vessel to make room for passenger steamers, and
    shall also extinguish all lights and fires before the vessel is taken
    over, and across the deck of his vessel as the case may
    require, when such vessel shall be in a dangerous position.

  3. The master of every vessel, whether carrying passen
    gers or not, shall, upon the order of the officer in charge, at
    all times keep fixed, a safe and proper gangway from such
    vessel to the wharf, with a proper chain, rope and wire by
    stanchions with ropes rove taut through same, the top rail
    so affixed as to prevent any one falling over the side, and
    a gangway for ingress to and for egress from passengers at
    all all times throughout the night (that is to say from
    sunset to sunrise) and shall provide a light at the end of
    each gangway, and shall conform to and obey all orders the
    officer in charge may think fit and proper with reference to
    such gangways and lights.

  4. The master, owner, or agent of every vessel shall
    provide a proper and sufficient cargo shoot or gangway,
    and shall give to the wharfinger or other person in charge a
    copy of the bill of lading, giving him an account of the
    cargo, or other proper account of all goods intended to be
    landed, and he shall submit to all his orders and pay to all
    goods shipped from the bill of the vessel.

(b) A bill of lading, manifest, manifest, or other
proper other account of all goods sent to, or a proper and
measurements of such goods according as freight is payable,
or to the wharfinger, and pay to him the dues which shall
in charge all wharfage charges or such goods according to
the same for all goods landed.

GOODS WHARFAGE.

  1. Every person who uses the wharf for landing or
    shipping goods shall at all times be accounted as due from
    following rates per load :—

(a) For all timber, 1s. per 1,000 superficial feet.

(b) For all goods, ballast cargo over or on the wharf
6d. per ton.

(c) For all goods, ballast cargo over or on the wharf for
vided by landed or shipped from the wharf, and
6d. per ton for all goods, ballast cargo at the
option of the licensees.

(d) For all other goods, shall be charged wharfage at
the above-named rate of 1s. per ton weight :—

LIST OF GOODS to be charged at per Ton Wharf
age on Weight or Measurement.

Anchors,
Barilla,
Bran and horse, lopp,
Bark,
Barley, 12 sacks to the
ton.
Beans, 10 sacks to the
ton.
Boiled and nuts.
Bones, raw.
Bones.
Bran, 10 sacks to the
ton.
Brass, in pig, bars, or
sheets.
Broom, corn.
Butter, in kegs.
Carrots, 12 sacks to the
ton.
Candles, 20s.
Cement.
Charcoal (local), 40
bushels.
Oats, 10 sacks (local),
10 sacks to the ton.
Chain.
Chaff.
Charcoal, 20 sacks to
the ton.
Clover-seed.
Coal.
Cocoanuts, 10 sacks to
the ton.
Coffee, in bags.
Coke, 20 sacks to the
ton.
Copper bar or sheet.
Copra.
Cordage.
Drainpipes.
Earthenware, plain, in
crates.
Fibre.
Flanncy.
Flax.
Flour, 2,000 lb. to the
ton.
Fuelwood, 20 sacks or 5
cords.
Grass seed, 15 sacks to
the ton.
Guano.
Hemp.
Hides, common.
Hoops.
Iron, bar, rod, pig, sheet,
or plate.
Kauri-gum, 12 sacks to
the ton.
Lead, sheet or pig.
Lime, 10 sacks to the
ton.
Linseed, 10 sacks to the
ton.
Machinery, where 40
cubic feet to the ton,
weighing.
Maize, 10 sacks to the
ton.
Maize, 12 sacks to the
ton.
Malt, 12 sacks to the
ton.
Mangold wurzel.
Manure.
Meat, all sorts, 2,000 lb.
to the ton.
Millet, 10 sacks.
Melons, loose.
Metal, old.
Nails.
Oatmeal, 10 sacks to
the ton.
Oats, 12 sacks to the
ton.
Onions, 12 sacks or 16
sacks to the ton.
Ore.
Oysters, 15 sacks to the
ton.
Paint.
Peanuts, 12 sacks to the
ton.
Peas; barley, 10 sacks
to the ton.
Pens, 10 sacks to the
ton.
Plaster.
Potatoes, 12 sacks to the
ton.
Potatoes, 12 sacks or 16
sacks to the ton.
Pumice, 20 sacks to the
ton.
Pumpkins, loose.
Quicks.
Rice, 6 sacks to the
ton.
Rope.
Shingles.
Soap.
Salt meat, in kegs or
casks.
Sash weights.
Seeds.
Skins, 12 sacks to the
ton.
Slates.
Straw.
Sugar, common.
Sulphur.
Tar.
Tallow.
Tin.
Wool, 10 sacks to the
ton.
Wheat, 10 sacks to the
ton.
Weight shall be gross weight—i.e., including
casks.

(e) For loose, packages, or parcels, not exceeding
6 cubic feet shall be charged 6d. each.

(f) For loose, packages, or parcels, exceeding 6 cubic
feet shall be charged 6d. each.

(g) For loose, not exceeding 6, packages, or
parcels, and not included in the weight-list above,
or 40 cubic feet shall be charged per ton. Where
40 cubic feet are charged, wharfage will be for
measurement. Measurement shall be outside
the smallest part of each parcel.

  1. Every person whose goods are stored in any shed upon
    the wharf, shall pay an additional sum as rent in addition to the
    tonnage dues on goods, at the following rates :—
    For the first forty-eight hours for storage charges,-

Bacon, side or roll, or hams, each

Brandy, half-case or more
Beer, ale, or stout, case or keg, each.

Hardware, from £25 to £200 per bushel.

Chaff, bran, or sharps, per sack

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