Mar. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 771

For every carriage or vehicle having four wheels .. 4 0
For every cart or carriage wheel .. .. .. 1 3
For every 100 shingles or less .. .. .. 0 1
For every 100 props or less .. .. .. 2 3
For every 100 slabs or less .. .. .. 1 9
For every 100 sleepers or less .. .. .. 4 6
For every 100 posts or rails or less .. .. 3 0
For every 100 palings or less .. .. .. 0 6
For every hide (cattle), undressed .. .. .. 0 2
For every 12 skins undressed (small animals) or less.. 0 4
For every 100 sup. ft. B.M. balk or round timber (round timber trade measurement, computed according to Hoppus’ tables of trade measurement; no allowance to be made for bark, tops, or unsound wood).
For every 100 sup. ft. B.M. of sawn timber or less .. 0 2
For every ton or part of a ton of firewood .. .. 0 9
For every 100 bricks or less .. .. .. 0 3
For every ton ship-ballast or less .. .. .. 1 0
For every ton coal (Native) or less .. .. .. 1 0
For every ton coal (imported) or less .. .. .. 1 6
For every ton benzine, per case .. .. .. 0 2
For every ton kerosene, per case .. .. .. 0 1
For every motor-car .. .. .. .. 5 0
For every motor-lorry .. .. .. .. 4 0

18. For all goods, wares, and merchandise which have paid inward wharfage passed over the said wharf or any landing-place for immediate shipment therefrom—Free.

19. For all goods, wares, and merchandise landed or passed over the wharf or any landing-place for transhipment or transshipped from one vessel to another or to a barge, half-charges only.

20. For all goods landed at any private wharf or private landing-place, one-half of the above charges only. Goods which have been transhipped at Ngahina Wharf under Regulation No. 19 are exempt under this clause.

21. Butter made and shipped by the owners of any butter-factory from cream on which they have paid inwards wharfage shall be charged half-rates only, provided the owner of a butter-factory or the secretary or manager of a butter-manufacturing company shall on shipping any butter make a statutory declaration in accordance with the provisions of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, setting out therein the quantity of butter contained in the shipment manufactured from cream on which full inwards wharfage rates have been paid; the said statutory declaration to be forwarded to Collector immediately it has been signed and fully declared.

22. Separate consignments of goods shall be computed separately. Computing the whole of one firm’s or person’s consignments in the lump or as a whole as one consignment shall not be allowed, saving and excepting that when any firm or person ships or receives more than one package of goods on any one day by the same ship, then wharfage shall be charged on the total measurements of all the packages, and not separately.

Cattle and other Animals’ Wharfage.

23. For every horse or head of cattle landed or passed on to or off or from the wharf or any landing-place .. .. .. s. d. 1 6
    For each and every pig landed on to or off or from the wharf or any landing-place .. 0 6
    For every sheep or goat landed on to or off or from the wharf or any landing-place .. 0 3

Fender Dues.

24. Every person who shall use any fender provided by the Minister of Public Works shall pay for the use thereof as follows: For the use of each fender there shall be paid 1s. per day, as defined by Regulation No. 16, or part of a day; and any fender lost or broken before being returned to the Harbourmaster or Wharfinger shall be replaced or repaired at the cost in all things of the master or owner of the vessel using the same.

Crane Dues.

25. (1.) For single packages not exceeding 1 ton s. d. 1 0
    (2.) For single packages in excess of 1 ton .. 2 6
    (3.) For single packages in excess of 2 tons—for every additional ton up to 7 tons .. 1 6
    (4.) For the use of crane, for every hour or portion of hour, for lifts not exceeding 1 ton each .. .. .. 2 0
    (5.) For the use of crane, per hour, for lifts in excess of 1 ton but not exceeding 2 tons 4 0
    (6.) For all lifts exceeding 2 tons but not exceeding 7 tons .. .. .. 10 0
    (7.) Horses or other large cattle (each) .. 1 0
    (8.) Where a heavy package exceeding 2 tons in weight received from a vessel has to be unloaded on to the wharf and subsequently lifted on to a vehicle for delivery, only one charge for the use of the crane will be made in respect of such package. When the crane is used in excess of one hour, half-rates only will be charged for each additional hour or portion of an hour. The above charges do not include labour.

The crane shall only be used under the direct control of the Wharfinger or his appointee.

26. Harbourmaster’s Fees.—For each time the Harbourmaster or his deputy goes on board any vessel to appoint the place of anchorage, or to remove such vessel from one anchorage to another, the fee or sum of 1d. per registered ton shall be paid.

The above rates shall be paid in the case of vessels entering inward at the Customhouse, and in the case of vessels leaving before clearing at the Customs.

Native Trade.

27. It shall be lawful for the Harbourmaster, Wharfinger, or Collector of Dues, either alone or with other persons, to board or enter any vessel in order to ascertain the dues payable in respect to the vessel or the goods therein.

28. The master of every vessel shall produce the certificate of registry of his vessel to the Harbourmaster, Wharfinger, or Collector, at the office of the Harbourmaster or Wharfinger, and also shall give such information to the above-named officials as will enable the Minister of Public Works, or any officer duly authorized by him in that behalf, to levy the dues payable in respect thereof.

29. The master of every vessel shall deliver to the Harbourmaster, Wharfinger, or Collector a copy of the bill of lading or manifest of the cargo, or other proper account of all goods intended to be unshipped from the vessel, and the name of the owner or owners to whom any goods in such vessel are intended to be delivered, before delivering cargo to any person.

30. The master of every vessel shall report his arrival at the wharf or any landing within twenty-four hours after such arrival at the Harbourmaster’s or Wharfinger’s office at the wharf.

31. Native Trade.—All wharfage and other charges on pigs, goats, sheep, or produce landed on the wharf or landing by or for aboriginal Natives of New Zealand shall be paid by the buyer or consignee thereof.

32. Lifebuoys, Grapnels, &c.—No person shall use or in any way damage or interfere with any lifebuoys, grapnels, &c., except for saving life or with the permission of the Harbourmaster or Wharfinger.

WHARVES AND GOODS.

33. No goods shall be allowed to remain on the wharf or any landing, or in or upon any approaches thereto, or any shed, for a longer period than twenty-four hours after the same may have been placed there, without the written permit of the Harbourmaster or Wharfinger.

34. If any goods so remain without the consent of the Harbourmaster or Wharfinger, any person duly appointed by either of them for that purpose may remove the same to any convenient place and keep the same until all charges due thereon, including the expense of such removal and storage are paid. If such expenses are not paid within seven days after demand thereof made upon the owner, or if such owner cannot be found or is unknown, then, after the Minister of Public Works has given public notice by advertisement at least once in each of three consecutive weeks in some newspaper circulating in the district where the goods are, the Minister may sell such goods by public auction, and out of the proceeds of sale pay all dues and charges payable thereon, and the expenses of removal and of the sale thereof, and the surplus (if any) shall be rendered to the owner on demand. If the owner of the goods cannot be found, or is unknown, then the surplus shall be paid into the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Account and shall become the property of the Minister of Public Works.

35. In the event of there not being a sufficient number of hands on board a vessel discharging or loading cargo at a wharf to ensure the work being carried on at a fair and reasonable speed, it shall be competent for the Harbourmaster or Wharfinger to employ such number of additional hands on board such vessel as may in his opinion be needed, and to charge the expenses so incurred against the master of the vessel; and such charges must be paid before clearance or receipt is given for cargo.

36. No person shall make any boat fast to any steps or landing-place for passengers, except when landing and embarking passengers, so as to obstruct the approach of other boats, nor shall allow any boat to lie alongside any such steps or landing-place any longer than is required for landing or embarking passengers.

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