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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 85

WHARVES.

EXCEPT where otherwise specified, the following rates and charges will be made on goods for shipment or ex ship and for the other purposes specified, at the places named, in addition to the other rates and charges made under the preceding regulations.

130. General.

1. The working hours of the Department are from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday inclusive, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, holidays excepted. Ships discharging or taking in cargo at any other time will be charged, in the case of employees engaged by the Department upon or in connection with the working of the ship and paid in terms of the Waterside Workers' Award, at the full rates ruling at the port less 9d. per hour, which latter amount will be paid by the Department. In the case of employees engaged by the Department in shunting, tallying, or supervising, or in any way upon or in connection with the ship, and who are not paid in terms of the Waterside Workers' Award, the ship will be charged for such employees at the ordinary time rate ruling for waterside labour at the port less 9d. per hour, which latter amount will be paid by the Department.

2. Where request is made for labour to be provided at a certain time, but owing to rain or other cause work does not start at the time arranged, or when work has been stopped by rain or other cause and the men stand by at the request of the ship's owner or agent, the full time the men are standing by will be payable by the ship's owner or agent: Provided that when by any award prescribing the conditions of work of waterside workers it is provided that if workers are "ordered down" they shall be paid as for a minimum period of time, such period of time (computed as from the due time of commencement of the work) shall not be time for which payment shall be made in pursuance of the provisions of this paragraph when work is not commenced owing to weather conditions.

3. In the case of vessels loading or discharging cargo on a day in respect of which special rates are payable to the employees of the Department, owners or agents must pay such rates in full for all men engaged in connection with the working of the vessel, and an undertaking must in every case be given before the work is commenced that the payment will be made.

4. No vessel shall discharge or take in live-stock at any railway wharf on Sundays except in cases of extreme urgency, and the captain or agent of the vessel shall give the Stationmaster at the port at least two hours' notice in writing of the intention to load or discharge the stock, and must, before the loading or discharging is commenced, obtain the written consent of the Stationmaster thereto.

5. Except where cargo is worked or passengers are landed or embarked on Sundays or public holidays, berthage charges will not be enforced at wharves under the control of the Department in respect to Sundays or public holidays.

131. Transhipments.

1. Bona fide transhipments from one vessel to another which pass over a railway wharf will be charged ordinary wharfage rates when received ex ship, and will be exempt from wharfage charge when being reshipped.

2. Except as otherwise provided, goods which are transhipped from one vessel to another lying at a railway wharf but which do not pass over the wharf will be charged half wharfage rates.

(For haulage, handling, and storage charges on transhipments see Regulation 98.)

132. Dargaville Wharf.

Rates.

The following rates will be charged on goods passing over the wharf:

Goods and live-stock conveyed between the wharf and stations inland by rail
On all goods not otherwise specified (by weight or measurement, as the Department may direct), per ton
Cattle and horses, per head
Sheep, pigs, and goats, per head
Timber, per 100 superficial feet
Goods of Classes F, N, P, Q, or R, per ton
Minimum charge

s. d.
Free
2 10
3 6
0 4½
0 4½
1 0
0 8

The Department may require the owners of goods to find all labour for landing or shipping goods. On all goods not otherwise provided for, for which the Department finds labour, 1s 5d. per ton will be charged for landing or shipping. For unloading charges on timber shipped at Dargaville, see Goods—Local Rates Scales of Charges.