New Zealand Gazette – 1931 – No. 85

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✨ Railway Freight Rates



LOCAL RATES—continued.

  1. Miscellaneous—continued.
From To Description of Goods. Rate.
Rewanui .. Port Chalmers .. Coal .. .. .. .. 24s. 6d. per ton, which includes weighing and delivery to the service siding at Mussel Bay.
Rewanui .. Dunedin .. Coal .. .. .. 24s. 6d. per ton, which includes weighing and delivery to private sidings at Dunedin.
Hokitika and all stations between Hokitika and Greymouth Ashburton .. Greymouth .. Goods of Classes A, B, C, and D for shipment at Greymouth 11s. 11d. per ton. Charges to be computed in accordance with Regulation 129, General Scale of Charges.
Ashburton .. Christchurch .. Butter and cheese .. 27s. per ton, which rate includes collection at Ashburton and delivery at Christchurch.
Ashburton .. Any station on the North or South Island Main Line and Branches Bottles and jars, glass .. Class D. The charges at this rate will be reduced by 12½ per cent. In cases where the charges are computed on the combination of a local and the classified rate the 12½-per-cent. reduction will not be made.
Orari .. Christchurch .. Cheese, loose .. .. 45s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 10 cwt. per consignment.
Orari .. Smithfield .. Butter and cheese .. 10s. 7d. per ton.
Temuka .. Christchurch .. Cheese, loose or in crates .. 30s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 10 cwt. per consignment.
Temuka .. Smithfield .. Butter and cheese .. 7s. per ton.
Washdyke .. Belfast .. Tallow .. .. .. .. 45s. per ton.
Smithfield .. Timaru .. Butter and cheese .. 3s. 6d. per ton.
Smithfield .. Lyttelton .. Butter and cheese .. 31s. per ton.
Timaru .. Lyttelton .. Ships' goods of Classes A, B, C, and D 21s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 10 tons per consignment. The charges to be computed in accordance with Regulation 129, General Scale of Charges.
Timaru .. Christchurch or Woolston Sheep-skins, loose or in bundles, and hides 37s. 5d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 30 cwt. per L wagon. Owners to load and unload.
Timaru .. Christchurch .. Beer or stout, bottled, packed, or in bulk 37s. 1d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 tons per four-wheeled wagon.
Timaru .. Christchurch .. Biscuits, packed in crates or cases 37s. 1d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 cwt. per consignment.
Timaru .. Christchurch .. Biscuits in tins, loose, in consignments of more than 20 tins or parcels 39s. 1d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 cwt. per consignment.
Timaru .. Belfast .. Tallow .. .. .. .. 45s. per ton.
*Timaru and stations north there- of and east of Arthur's Pass Stations west of Arthur’s Pass Pressed hay in bales and straw chaff Class Q. Minimum quantity, 4 tons per four-wheeled wagon.
*Timaru and stations north there- of and east of Arthur's Pass Stations west of Arthur’s Pass Pressed straw, in bales .. Class F. Minimum quantity, 4 tons per four-wheeled wagon.
Timaru .. Orari .. .. . Classes A, B, C, and D .. 10s. per ton.
Timaru .. Albury or Cricklewood Classes A, B, and C .. 20s. per ton.
Timaru .. Winscombe, Fairlie, or Eversley Classes A, B, and C .. 22s. 6d. per ton.
  • Tarpaulins to be charged for at the rates provided in paragraph 2, Reg. 100, General Scale of Charges. Consignor will require to certify on the consignment-note as to the contents of each wagon carried under these provisions, and also that the pressed hay or straw chaff or pressed straw, as the case may be, is consigned to a bona fide farmer.

Small lots of goods of Classes A, B, C, and D from Timaru to stations Albury-Eversley (inclusive) will be charged pro rata of the classified rate, or, where cheaper, of the local rate instead of under Regulation 71, General Scale of Charges; minimum charge, ls.

LOCAL UNIFORM RATES

Goods of Classes E, F, N, P, Q, R, and artificial manures (Regulation 86, General Scale of Charges) from any station to stations Albury-Eversley (inclusive) will be charged at the classified Class D rate, Regulation 69, General Scale of Charges, such rate being referred to in the following proviso as the “local uniform rate”: Provided, however, that to those persons or bodies of persons (whether incorporated or not) who shall undertake to place with or cause to be placed with the Board the whole of their goods requiring conveyance between places in New Zealand, where in the opinion of the Board it is reasonably practicable for such persons or bodies of persons to have their goods conveyed by railway, the benefit of the classified rates under which such goods would be charged had the local uniform rate not been in operation shall be extended and be payable in all cases where such classified rates shall be cheaper than the classified Class D rate, Regulation 69, General Scale of Charges.



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Freight Rates, Goods, Railway Charges, South Island, Southbridge Branch, Christchurch, Rakaiia, East Oxford, Waikari, Hawarden, Leeston, Hatfield, Methven, Ashburton, Hornby, Dunedin, Invercargill, Lyttelton, Belfast, Kaiapoi, Southbrook, Rangiora, Middleton, Sockburn, Blackball, Greymouth, Roa, Reefton, Cronadun, Inangahua, Brunner, Wallsend, Dobson, Hokitika, Rapahoe, Dunollie, Rewanui, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Timaru, Orari, Smithfield, Temuka, Washdyke, Woolston, Arthur's Pass