New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 24

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✨ Freight Rates



  1. Westport Section.

  2. Goods of Classes C and D will be charged as Class C plus 50 per cent.

  3. Except as otherwise provided, coal and coal-dross consigned to Westport
    for shipment will be charged at the following rates, which include weighing and
    discharging by cranes into ships. Minimum quantity, 7 tons per four-wheeled
    wagon, except in the case of wagons passing over the Denniston incline in which
    case the minimum quantity will be 6 tons per four-wheeled wagon:

From Rate Per Ton.
Cascade Siding ... s. d.
Waimangaroa Junction 3 4
*Conn's Creek 3 4
Westport-Granity Coal-mines 3 6½
Granity 3 11
Ngakawau 4 2
St. Helens 4 3
Seddonville 5 2
Mokihinui 5 3
  1. Coal consigned to Westport for bunkering overseas vessels at Westport
    will be charged the following rates:
From Rate Per Ton.
Cascade Siding s. d.
*Conn's Creek 3 0
Westport-Granity Coal-mines 3 3
Granity 3 7
Ngakawau 3 9
St. Helens 3 10
Seddonville 4 8
Mokihinui Mine 4 9

  1. Coke consigned from Granity to Westport for shipment will be charged
    7s. 8d. per ton ; minimum quantity, 4 tons per four-wheeled wagon. This charge
    includes weighing and (when in bulk) delivery to ship. For bagged coke 9d. per
    ton additional will be charged for delivery to ship.

  2. Timber loaded at Westport for shipment at Westport wharf will be charged
    3½d. per 100 superficial feet for haulage from sidings to ships. The foregoing
    charge will include storage up to twelve days, after the expiry of which period
    storage charges at the rate of ½d. per day or part thereof will be enforced.

  3. Timber stacked on wharf stacking-sites awaiting shipment will be charged
    for storage at the following rates:

For any period not exceeding twelve days, 3½d. per 100 superficial feet.
For each additional day or part of a day, ½d. per 100 superficial feet.

  1. Coal and coal-dross consigned from Conn's Creek to Waimangaroa will be
    charged 4s. 3d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 6 tons per four-wheeled wagon.

  2. Goods and sheep booked through between stations on the Government
    railway (Waimangaroa Junction excepted) and stations on the Waimangaroa
    Branch line will be charged upon the branch, in addition to the classified or local
    rates on the Government railway, as follows:

(a) Between Waimangaroa Junction and Conn's Creek : Sheep, 4½d. per head ;
timber, 4½d. per 100 superficial feet ; coal and minerals, minimum
quantity, 6 tons per four-wheeled wagon, 1½d. per ton ; other goods,
Is. 11d. per ton. Minimum charge, 6d.

(b) Between Waimangaroa Junction and Waimangaroa : Timber, 3½d. per
100 superficial feet ; coal and minerals, minimum quantity, 6 tons
per four-wheeled wagon, 3½d. per ton ; other goods, Is. 2d. per ton.
Minimum charge, 6d.

  1. Except as otherwise provided, goods booked between stations on the
    Waimangaroa Branch (including Waimangaroa Junction) will be charged at the
    classified rate. Owners of sheep must take all risk and responsibility, and per-
    form all loading and unloading.
  • Includes 1½d. per ton for working traffic between Waimangaroa Junction and Conn's Creek
    and 1d. per ton wagon-hire.


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🚂 Westport Section Freight Rates (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
Freight Rates, Westport, Cascade Siding, Waimangaroa Junction, Conn's Creek, Granity, Ngakawau, St. Helens, Seddonville, Mokihinui, Coal, Coke, Timber, Shipment, Bunkering, Storage