June 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1799

per ton measurement. Per ton weight means 20 cwt.; per ton measurement means 40 cubic feet. Weight shall be gross weight—i.e., including covering; measurement shall be outside measurement of all packages.

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

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

(g.) For every horse or head of cattle, 1s. each.

(h.) For every sheep, pig, or goat, 2d. each.

STORAGE.

20. Every person whose goods are stored in any shed upon any wharf shall pay, before receipt of such goods, and when called on by the Council or wharfinger so to do, storage for such goods at the following rates, 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 cwt. … … 0 1
Hides, each … … … … 0 1
Hay, per cwt. … … … … 0 0½
Ironwork and machinery, n.o.e., per cwt. … 0 1½
Kauri-gum, per sack … … … 0 2
,, per case … … … 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
Nails, per cwt. … … … 0 1½
Wire, plain, per coil … … … 0 1
Wire, barbed, per coil … … … 0 2
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.

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

22. 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, storage due as in By-law No. 20 hereof provided for, together with any other charges due to the Council thereupon, and, in default of payment, may, in the manner and in the time provided by section 63 of the Harbours Act, 1908, sell the same, and may exercise on behalf of the Council all the powers contained in the said section 63.

23. No ballast, timber, coal, produce, or cargo of any description shall be shipped or unshipped except at such time 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.

24. 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.

25. (a.) No ashes, rubbish, or refuse shall be landed on any wharf or other landing-place until vehicles are brought alongside to receive them.

(b.) Three hours’ notice must be given to the wharfinger of the intention to land any rubbish, ashes, or refuse.

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

27. 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 or from such shed by the wharfinger, and the consignee or owner of such goods shall upon demand repay to the Council the cost of such removal, and also in addition the amount of any damage done by such goods to any other goods on such wharf or in such shed.

28. 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.

29. 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 arising therefrom, in addition to the penalty provided for breach of these regulations, and the Council shall not be responsible for any damage or loss which may accrue to such goods.

SHIPS’ WHARF DUES.

30. The following dues, tolls, and charges shall be paid for the use of each and every of the wharves at Mount Wesley, Aratapu, Chadwick’s Ferry, Miti tai, Whakahara, Tikinui, Dargaville, Mangawhare, Tangowahine, Tangiteroria, Kopuru, and any other wharf that now is or may hereafter come under the jurisdiction of the Hobson County Council, in the Harbour of Kaipara, viz. :—

On every vessel under 20 tons register lying alongside a wharf, for each day or part of a day s. d. 1 0
On every vessel under 20 tons register for every day or part of a day that such vessel lies alongside a vessel lying at a wharf … … 0 6
On every vessel under 20 tons register undergoing repairs or fitting out alongside a wharf, or lying off a wharf with a line attached thereto, per day or part of a day … … … 0 6
On every vessel of 20 tons register and upwards lying at a wharf, per ton per day or part of a day 0 0¼
Minimum charge on every sailing-vessel of 20 tons register and upwards lying alongside a wharf, per day or part of a day … … … 1 0
Minimum charge on every steamer of 20 tons register and upwards lying alongside a wharf, per day or part of a day … … … 1 6
On every vessel of 20 tons register and upwards lying alongside a vessel at a wharf, or lying off a wharf with a line attached thereto, or undergoing repairs, per ton per day or part of a day … 0 0⅛
Minimum charge for vessel last mentioned … 0 6

FERRY-SLIPS AND PONTOONS.

31. (a.) No punt shall ply for hire at the county ferry-slips unless and until it has been licensed by the Council as to its carrying-capacity, and the owner of every licensed punt shall have painted thereon in conspicuous letters the number of cattle or stock that it is licensed to carry.

(b.) The license fee shall be £1 per annum, and such license shall expire on the 31st December in each year. Upon payment of the annual license fee the Council’s Engineer shall measure and inspect the pontoon without further fee, and shall fix its carrying-capacity, after which the license will be issued by the Clerk.

32. The following dues shall be charged for the use of the ferry-slips, and shall be collected by the ferryman on behalf of the Council :—

For—

s. d.
Horse, if not in hand, each … … … 0 3
Foal, each … … … … 0 3
Cattle, the first 6, each … … … 0 3
Cattle, each additional 1, each… … … 0 1½
Calves, each … … … … 0 1
Sheep, the first 18, each … … … 0 1
Sheep, each additional over 18 and up to 100 … 0 0½
Sheep, each additional sheep over 100 … … 0 0¼
Pigs, each … … … … 0 2

PENALTIES.

33. If any person fails or refuses or neglects to do anything by these regulations required to be done, observed, or performed, or in any manner obstructs, impedes, or interferes with the doing of any thing enjoined, required, or authorized to be done, or does anything prohibited by these regulations, he shall in each and every case so offending be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.