✨ Wharf Regulations and Recreation Reserves
Oct. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2993
For every yearling or calf so landed upon or shipped
from the said wharf, the sum of Is. per head.
For every head of sheep or small cattle so landed upon
or shipped from the said wharf, the sum of 6d. per
head.
For all timber landed on the wharf a charge of 6d. per
100 ft. will be made.
Wool, 6d. per bale.
3. The trustees shall appoint any wharfinger or other
officer necessary for the purposes of these regulations.
4. No person shall remove goods from the wharf without
having previously paid the dues payable thereon.
5. If any goods remain for more than three hours on the
wharf, or in or upon the approaches thereto, the wharfinger
may remove the same to such premises as he thinks fit, and
keep the same until payment to the licensees of the expenses
of such removal and of the keeping of the goods, and of
any other charges due to the licensees thereupon, and, in
default of payment, may, in the manner and in the time
provided by section 195 of the Harbours Act, 1923, sell
the same, and may exercise on behalf of the licensees all the
powers contained in the said section 195.
6. 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 the wharf.
7. No person shall deposit any ballast, coal, coke, patent
or other fuel on the wharf or in any shed without special
permission from the wharfinger.
8. No ashes, rubbish, or refuse shall be landed on the
wharf until vehicles are brought alongside to receive them.
9. Three hours’ notice must be given to the wharfinger
of the intention to land any rubbish, ashes, or refuse.
10. No goods or articles of any description which, in the
opinion of the wharfinger, are likely to occasion damage to
the wharf or any shed in connection therewith shall be
discharged or landed on the wharf or placed in any such
shed.
11. No person shall place or leave upon the wharf, or in
any shed in connection therewith, 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 wharf-
inger, unfit to remain on the wharf, or harmful to other goods
stored on the wharf or in any such shed, may be removed
from the wharf by the licensees, and the consignee or owner
of such goods shall upon demand repay to the licensees the
cost of such removal.
12. It shall not be lawful for any person to remove any
goods from the wharf until all wharfage entries are passed on
the form prescribed by the licensees, 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
the licensees, or any of them, shall have been obtained.
13. 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 licensees shall
not be responsible for any damage or loss which may accrue
to such goods.
14. The licensees do not hold themselves responsible for
the safety of goods deposited in the wharf-shed, or upon any
part of the wharf.
15. The master of any vessel loading or discharging
at the wharf shall be deemed accountable for the proper
slinging and landing of all goods, and responsible for any
damage that may occur either from the breakage of slings
or from the goods being improperly slung or improperly
handled.
16. It shall be the duty of the master to cause proper
tarpaulins to be stretched from the wharf to the vessel
loading or discharging as aforesaid, and to be there maintained while cargo or ballast is being handled or shipped.
17. In case any vessel does or causes any damage to the
wharf or any part thereof, or in any machinery or building
thereon or appertaining thereto, then and in any such
case the master of such vessel shall forthwith report the
occurrence to the wharfinger.
18. Any damage done or caused as aforesaid may be
repaired by the licensees, and the cost thereof shall be recoverable by the licensees from the master and owner of any
vessel, or either of them, in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
19. All goods landed on the wharf, or brought thereon for
shipment, shall be placed as the Harbourmaster, wharfinger,
or other authorized person directs, and so as to keep all
mooring posts or rings free and all rails or tramways clear.
20. The wharfinger shall have the power to close the wharf,
or any portion thereof, whenever, in his opinion, it is advisable to do so, and no person shall enter upon the wharf or
portion so closed without the consent of the wharfinger.
21. The master of every vessel lying at the wharf shall
give way to any mail-steamer, whether discharging cargo or
passengers, and shall either vacate his berth or assist the
master of the mail-steamer to moor alongside his vessel, and
allow the passengers and cargo to be shipped and unshipped
over and across the deck of his vessel, as the case may
require, under such conditions as the wharfinger may impose.
22. The master of every vessel, whether carrying passengers or not, when lying alongside the wharf shall fix, and at
all times keep fixed, a safe and proper gangway from such
vessel to the wharf; such gangway shall have side rails or
stanchions with ropes rove taut through same, the top rail
or rope being not less than 3 ft. high, and he shall also keep
a gangway-net properly secured beneath the gangway, and
shall at all times throughout the night (that is to say, from
sunset to sunrise) show and exhibit a proper light fixed to
each gangway, and shall conform to and obey all orders the
wharfinger may give regarding the position, size, and kind of
such gangways and lights.
23. The master, owner, or agent of every vessel shall
produce the certificate of registry of his vessel if registered,
and shall give to the wharfinger or other person in charge a
copy of the bill of lading, freight-list, or manifest of the
cargo, or other proper account of all goods intended to be
unshipped from the vessel on to the wharf, and also of all
goods shipped from the wharf on to the vessel.
24. Such bill of lading, freight-list, manifest, or other
account shall contain full particulars of the weights and
measurements of such goods according as freight is payable,
and the master shall pay to the wharfinger or other person
in charge all wharfage charges on such goods according to
the scale herein contained.
25. 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 anything 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
fine not exceeding £5.
F. D THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council..
Recreation Reserves in North Auckland Land District brought
under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act,
1908.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of
October, 1925.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by
the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and
Domains Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the
reserves for recreation in the North Auckland Land District
described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are
hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be
subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act; and
such reserves shall hereafter be known as the Paihia Domain,
and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public
domain.
SCHEDULE.
PAIHIA DOMAIN.
All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing
16 acres 2 roods 11.6 perches, more or less, being the area
marked “Recreation reserve” on Land Transfer plan 15984.
Also all that area in the North Auckland Land District,
containing 6 acres 2 roods 20.6 perches, more or less, being
Lot 1, on Land Transfer plan 11101.
As the same are delineated on the plans marked L. and S.
l/688 A and B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
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NZ Gazette 1925, No 75
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NZ Gazette 1925, No 75
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