New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 24

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✨ Freight Rates Table



  1. Miscellaneous—continued.
From To Description of Goods. Rate.
Dunedin Invercargill Ships' goods of Classes C and D 33s. per ton dead-weight. Minimum quantity, 5 tons per consignment. Sorting where necessary will be charged for under the provisions of Reg. 96, General Scale of Charges.
Dunedin, Caversharn, or Burnside Invercargill Class C, n.o.s. 48s. 3d. per ton.
Soap, packed 35s. 3d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 cwt. per consignment.
Nails, packed 35s. 3d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 1 ton per consignment.
Motor-cars loaded on four-wheeled wagons 55s. per car, including the cost of cranage.
Goods for stations on the main line beyond Dunedin to which local rates from Dunedin apply 1s. 1d. per ton.
Anderson's Bay Dunedin Cement 34s. 8d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 6 tons per four-wheeled wagon.
Christchurch Greymouth Cement 37s. 5d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 6 tons per four-wheeled wagon.
Dunedin, for private sidings Fat, bones, offal, oil, tallow, sulphuric, muriatic, and nitric acid, and raw materials used in the manufacture of acids 3s. 10d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 2 tons per four-wheeled wagon.
Burnside Dunedin Fat, bones, offal, oil, tallow, sulphuric, muriatic, and nitric acid, and raw materials used in the manufacture of acids 4s. 7d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 2 tons per four-wheeled wagon.
Unmanufactured iron and steel 44s. 9d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 2 tons per four-wheeled wagon, 4 tons per bogie wagon. Owners to load and unload.
Christchurch Greymouth Unmanufactured iron and steel, including bolts, nuts, rivets, and patterns 55s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 2 tons per four-wheeled wagon, 4 tons per bogie wagon. Owners to load and unload.
Green Island Invercargill Unmanufactured iron and steel 45s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 2 tons per four-wheeled wagon, 4 tons per bogie wagon. Owners to load and unload.
Any station on the Otago Central Branch Alexandra Rabbits or hares, dead All consignments from the same station on the same train to be charged as one consignment.
Kelso Lyttelton Shooks for the manufacture of fruit-cases 53s. 3d. per ton.


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🚂 Miscellaneous Freight Rates (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
Freight Rates, Dunedin, Invercargill, Caversham, Burnside, Anderson's Bay, Christchurch, Greymouth, Green Island, Kelso, Lyttelton, Alexandra