New Zealand Gazette – 1948 – No. 27

Page 538

✨ Railway Freight Rates



538
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 27

  1. Miscellaneous—continued
From To Description of Goods. Rate.
Wanganui .. Wellington .. Class C, n.o.s., except meat, frozen or chilled, for export Classes C, D, E, and E plus 50 per cent., and empty returns (excepting benzine in bulk, explosives, dairy-produce, and meat, frozen or chilled). Owner's risk Class D. 36s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 4 tons per four-wheeled wagon and 50 tons each and every week, including tonnage railed in the reverse direction. Owners to load and unload 50s. per ton.
Petone .. Tallow .. 43s. 2d. per ton.
Wellington .. Sheep-skins, calf-skins, hides, horse-hair
Feilding .. Petone .. Tallow .. 56s. 1d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 tons per consignment.
Feilding, Aorangi, Taonui, Bunnythorpe, and Terrace End Wellington .. Class C, n.o.s., except meat, frozen or chilled, for export Class D, n.o.s. .. 56s. 1d. per ton. 54s. per ton.
Aorangi .. Wellington .. Hides and sheep-skins .. Glaxo and milk-powder, packed 39s. 7d. per ton. 36s. 4d. per ton.
Bunnythorpe .. Wellington .. Glucose D, packed .. Classes C and D, n.o.s. .. Bacon, packed .. Honey, extracted and section, packed Class D. 54s. per ton. 42s. 7d. per ton. 45s. 11d. per ton.
Palmerston North Wellington .. Classes C, D, E, and E plus 50 per cent., and empty returns (explosives excepted). Owner's risk 20s. 1d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 8 tons per four-wheeled wagon. Quantities of less than 8 tons per four-wheeled wagon will be charged as for 8 tons or at 26s. 5d. per ton, small lots, pro rata, minimum charge, 1s. 4d., whichever is cheaper. Minimum, 10 four-wheeled wagons each and every week, including tonnage railed in the reverse direction. Owners to load and unload. Class D, less 10 per cent.
Any station North Island Main Line and Branches except Wellington Woolpacks and woolpack fragments, in bales 30s. per ton.
Woolpacks and woolpack fragments, in bales, n.o.s. Woolpacks and woolpack fragments, in bales £7 18s. 5d. per four-wheeled wagon containing not more than 8 tons. Any tonnage in excess of 8 tons to be charged at the rate of 13s. 2d. per ton.
Foxton .. Wellington .. Hemp and tow, in bales, dressed, pressed Flax-fibre matting, packed, direct ex factory 27s. 4d. per ton. 54s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 tons per four-wheeled wagon. Any less quantity will be charged as 5 tons or at Class C rate on actual weight, whichever is the cheaper,


Next Page →

PDF embedding disabled (Crown copyright)

View this page online at:


VUW Te Waharoa — PDF NZ Gazette 1948, No 27


NZLII — PDF NZ Gazette 1948, No 27




✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🚂 Local Rates Scale of Charges for New Zealand Government Railways (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
12 May 1948
Railways, Local Rates, Charges, Regulations, Government Railways Act, Freight Rates, Pipes, Honey, Cheese-crate shooks, Soap, Soda crystals, Sheep-skins, Calf-skins, Tails, Horns, Horse-hair, Wool, Pelts, Tallow