New Zealand Gazette – 1937 – No. 67

Page 2279

✨ Railway Freight Rates



Oct. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2279

GOODS—LOCAL RATES SCALE OF CHARGES—continued.

NORTH ISLAND MAIN LINE AND BRANCHES—continued.

  1. Miscellaneous—continued.

By adding the following—continued.

From To Description of Goods. Rate.
Stations New Plymouth to Stratford, Ngaere to Marton, and Greatford to Port Ahuriri inclusive, and including stations on the Waitara, Opunake, and Wanganui Branches Auckland or Drury Hides, sheep-skins, and calf-skins, loose or in bundles, wool, in bags 70s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 3 tons per consignment.
Bunnythorpe Wellington Glucose D, packed Class D.
Hastings Any station on the North Island Main Line and Branches beyond Dannevirke, except Wellington, Auckland, and Newmarket Fruit, canned, packed, consigned direct from factory Class C.
Hastings Wellington Fruit and vegetables, canned, packed, consigned direct from factory 45s. per ton.
Hastings Port Ahuriri Fruit and vegetables, canned, packed, consigned direct from factory for shipment to Gisborne and South Island ports 7s. 6d. per ton, including haulage from Port Ahuriri to Napier Harbour Board’s line.
Port Ahuriri or Napier Waipawa Cement 10s. per ton.

13B. Through Booking between Auckland, Mount Eden, Otahuhu, Onehunga, and Intermediate Stations and Taupo, Wairakei, Oranui, and Mokai, via Rotorua.

By omitting from the above heading and from paragraph 1 thereunder the words “Taupo, Wairakei, Oranui, and Mokai,” and substituting in lieu thereof the words “Taupo and Wairakei.”

SOUTH ISLAND MAIN LINE AND BRANCHES.

  1. Benzine, Kerosene, &c.

By adding the following :—

In lieu of the rates at present prescribed, the following special rates shall apply to benzine, kerosene, and similar mineral oils when conveyed in rail tank-wagons the property of the consignor, viz. :—

Class C rate as at present prescribed by the “General Scale of Charges” reduced by ten per centum (10 per cent.), or the rates prescribed by the “Goods—Local Rates Scale of Charges,” whichever shall be the cheaper: Provided that, in the case of such oils consigned from Lyttelton to Middleton, the rate shall be eight shillings and one penny (8s. 1d.) per ton.

The foregoing special rates shall apply to all such oils forwarded by rail tank-wagon by a consignor who shall have given to the Railways Department on or before the 28th day of February, 1937, a written undertaking binding upon such consignor for a period of two years not to make any variation in the consignor’s arrangements as existing at the 31st day of December, 1936, for the transport by rail tank-wagon of benzine, kerosene, and similar mineral oils that will result in the diversion of any of the consignor’s traffic in such oils to any means of transport other than the railway, or that will result in altering the method of distribution in such manner that supplies of such oils conveyed by rail tank-wagon will be drawn from a source other than that from which they were drawn as at 31st December, 1936, thereby in either case causing a loss in haulage and revenue to the Railways Department.

  1. Miscellaneous.

By omitting the following :—

From To Description of Goods. Rate.
Christchurch Waikari Coke Class P.
Styx, Papanui, Bryndwyr, Riccarton, Addington, Christchurch, Linwood, Opawa, Woolston, Heathcote, and Islington Lyttelton Goods of Class N, consigned to ship 6s. 2d. per ton, including unloading charges at ship. Minimum load as per Reg. 77, General Scale of Charges. Any less quantity will be charged at such minimum or on actual weight at 6s. 9d. per ton.
Bluff Invercargill Newsprint, ex ship 15s. per ton dead-weight. This rate includes cost of sorting as provided in Reg. 98, General Scale of Charges.

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