New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 140

Page 3146

✨ Railway Freight Charges



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 146

  1. Demurrage.

By omitting paragraph 5, and substituting the following :—

  1. (a) Except as otherwise provided the following charges will be enforced on goods consigned to a port and held in railway-trucks awaiting shipment :—

For the day of arrival, the following day, and day of shipment no charge will be made. After the expiry of that time (except as provided in subparagraph (b) hereof) 1s. 7d. per ton weight per day or part of a day will be charged.

(b) When vessels are delayed through stress of weather and the shipping company notifies the circumstances to the Stationmaster or Goods Agent at the port concerned, the charges as prescribed by subparagraph (a) may be reducible as under :—

Actual Time for which Charges are Payable. Charges may be Reduced by
One day .. .. .. 50 per cent.
Two to five days .. .. .. One day.
Six to nine days .. .. .. Two days.
Ten days or over .. .. .. Three days.

(c) The minimum charge under this paragraph will be 7s. 9d. per four-wheeled wagon per day or part of a day.

(d) In no case shall the charge based in accordance with subparagraphs (a) and (b) hereof exceed the charge for demurrage as prescribed by paragraph 1 of this regulation.

GOODS—LOCAL RATES SCALE OF CHARGES.
NORTH ISLAND MAIN LINE AND BRANCHES.

  1. Butter and Cheese.

By omitting :—

From To Rate per Ton.
s. d.
Te Puke Auckland or Southdown 35 9
§Eltham Moturoa 17 6

By adding :—

From To Rate per Ton.
s. d.
Te Puke Auckland or Southdown 32 6
§Eltham Moturoa 19 8

  1. Wool Rates.

By omitting this regulation and substituting the following :—

  1. Wool.

Wool from and to the undermentioned stations will be charged as follows :—

From To Description of Goods. Rate per undumped Bale.
Auckland Feilding Greasy wool 10s. 0d.
Wanganui Feilding Greasy wool 3s. 0d.
Wanganui Scoured wool 3s. 0d.
Wellington or Kai-warra Scoured wool 4s. 3d.
Wellington or Kai-warra Classed wool from wool-classing store, n.o.s. 6s. 6d.
Feilding Wellington Classed wool from wool-classing store 7s. 6d., including collection at Feilding and delivery at Wellington within the areas as determined by the Department in that behalf.
Wellington or Kai-warra Feilding Greasy wool 5s. 0d.
Port Ahuriri Feilding Greasy wool 6s. 0d.

  1. Motor-vehicles.

By adding the following :—

From To Rate, per Vehicle.
One Car or Lorry loaded on a Four-wheeled wagon or Two or more Cars or Lorries loaded on a Bogie Wagon. One Car or Lorry loaded on R or U Wagon.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Wellington *Huntly 9 7 0 14 0 6



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