New Zealand Gazette – 1931 – No. 85

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✨ Freight Rates

LOCAL RATES—continued.

Miscellaneous—continued.

From	To	Description of Goods.	Rate.
Green Island or Dunedin	Invercargill ..	Unmanufactured iron and steel	35s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 2 tons per four-wheeled wagon, 4 tons per bogie wagon. Owners to load and unload.
Milburn ...	Burnside ..	Limestone ... ...	5s. 2d. per ton. Minimum quantity as per Regulation 79, General Scale of Charges.
Milton .. ...	Dunedin ..	Woollen goods, packed ..	25s. per ton. Small lots pro rata. Minimum charge, 1s. 6d.
Stirling ..	Dunedin ..	Cheese, loose or in bags ..	24s. 5d. per ton.
Otanomomo ..	Dunedin ..	Flax fibre, stripped, in bundles for the manufacture of sacks, wool-packs, and similar articles	13s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 3 tons per four-wheeled wagon. Owners to unload.
Owaka .. ...	Dunedin ..	Cheese, loose or in bags ..	31s. 9d. per ton.
Pukerau ..	Bluff .. ...	Butter and cheese ..	27s. 6d. per ton.
Gore .. ...	Riccarton ..	Creamota and milk oaties ..	45s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 tons 10 cwt. per four-wheeled wagon.
Gore .. ...	Any station on the South Island Main Line and Branches	Goods of Class E ..	Class E goods which by reason of their weight are charged Class E rate and a half will be charged Class E with the small-lots scale as a minimum, provided the aggregate weight of all the consignments in the wagon is not less than 5 tons 10 cwt.
Gore .. ...	Dunedin ..	Creamota, milk oaties, oatie nuts	20s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 tons 10 cwt. per four-wheeled wagon.
Gore .. ...	Bluff .. ...	Creamota, milk oaties, oatie nuts	15s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 tons 10 cwt. per four-wheeled wagon.
Edendale ...	Bluff .. ...	Sugar of milk, crude, for shipment by overseas vessels at Bluff	12s. 5d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 20 tons per consignment. Owners to load.
Woodlands ...	Bluff .. ...	Rabbits, dead, in crates ..	17s. 6d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 1 ton per four-wheeled wagon.
*Invercargill ..	Dunedin ..	Goods of Classes A, B, and C, not otherwise specified, in quantities of 5 cwt. and over	43s. 10d. per ton.
*Invercargill ..	Dunedin ..	Threshing-machines, reapers-and-binders, winnowing-machines, bulky machinery, carriages and gigs in pieces (unpainted and in the rough), mattresses (packed), motor-cars in cases, and furniture packed in quantities of 5 cwt. and over	54s. per ton.
*Invercargill ..	Dunedin ..	Furniture and wire mattresses unpacked	67s. 6d. per ton.

Scale for Small Lots, Dunedin-Invercargill.

Goods of Classes A, B, and C, not otherwise specified, between Dunedin and Invercargill, in quantities of less than 5 cwt. will be charged as follows: Consignments not exceeding 28 lb., 56 lb., and 84 lb. respectively, at the small-lots rate (Regulation 71, General Scale of Charges), computed on the basis of the classified rates; maximum charge, 5s. 3d. Consignments exceeding 84 lb., at 5s. 3d. for the first hundredweight and 4½d. for each additional quarter or fraction of a quarter, or classified rates if cheaper.

Threshing-machines, reapers-and-binders, winnowing-machines, bulky machinery, carriages and gigs in pieces (unpainted and in the rough), mattresses unpacked, motor-cars in cases, and furniture unpacked, between Dunedin and Invercargill, in quantities of less than 5 cwt. will be charged 8s. 1d. for the first hundredweight and 4½d. for each additional quarter or fraction of a quarter, or classified rates if cheaper.

The charges hereinbefore prescribed for quantities of less than 5 cwt. and which provide for local rates on goods of Classes A, B, and C, between Dunedin and Invercargill will in respect of consignments of biscuits in tins, loose, in consignments of more than twenty tins or parcels and of confectionery in tins or boxes, loose, in consignments of more than twenty tins or parcels, be increased as follows:

Weight. Amount.

Not exceeding 2 cwt. ... 2d. per consignment.

,, 3 cwt. ... 4d. ,,

,, 4 cwt. ... 5d. ,,

,, 5 cwt. ... 6d. ,,

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