New Zealand Gazette – 1957 – No. 19

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✨ Railway Freight Rates



  1. Miscellaneous—continued
From To Description of Goods Rate
Wellington Auckland Imported fruit £7 3s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 10 tons per consignment. Owners to load and unload.
New Plymouth Zinc ingots Class D. Minimum quantity, 10 tons per consignment. Owners to load and unload.
Aramoho, St. John's, or Wanganui Classes C and D, n.o.s. £4 15s. 8d. per ton. Small lots will be charged at the No. 6 Zone rates as per reg. 71, General Scale of Charges.
Wanganui Classes C, D, E, and E plus 50 per cent, and empty returns (excepting benzine in bulk, explosives, and motor cars in cases). Owner's risk £3 11s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 tons per four-wheeled wagon and 150 tons each and every week, including tonnage railed in the reverse direction. Owners to load and unload.
Private sidings on Castlecliff Branch Classes C and D, n.o.s. £5 per ton. Small lots will be charged at the No. 7 zone rates as per reg. 71, General Scale of Charges.
Wellington Palmerston North Classes C, D, E, and E plus 50 per cent, and empty returns (excepting explosives). Owner's risk £2 1s. 4d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 8 tons per four-wheeled wagon. Minimum, 10 four-wheeled wagons each and every week, including tonnage railed in the reverse direction. Owners to load and unload.
Hastings or Napier Classes C, D, E, and E plus 50 per cent (excepting benzine in bulk, explosives, and motor cars in cases). Owner's risk £4 2s. per ton. Minimum quantity, 5 tons per four-wheeled wagon and 150 tons each and every week, including tonnage railed in the reverse direction. Owners to load and unload.
Petone, Lower Hutt, or Gracefield Siding Stratford Gas, oxygen and acetylene, in cylinders £5 16s. 7d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 8 tons per four-wheeled wagon. Owners to load and unload.
Palmerston North Gas, oxygen and acetylene, in cylinders £3 9s. 11d. per ton. Minimum quantity, 8 tons per four-wheeled wagon. Owners to load and unload.
Carterton Wellington Impregnated sawn timber (previously conveyed as sawn timber by rail direct to the treatment plant at Carterton from Tokoroa, Edgecumbe, or Ongarue) Class K less 20 per cent.


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🚂 Railway Freight Charges for Various Goods (continued from previous page)

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Railway freight, Freight rates, Imported fruit, Zinc ingots, Gas, oxygen and acetylene, Impregnated sawn timber