Freight Rates and Conditions




  1. Through Booking of Parcels and Goods from South Island to North Island via Cook Strait Rail Ferries or Rail/Air

  2. (a) Products and commodities (new), as prescribed in paragraph 2 hereof, manufactured or processed in the South Island and consigned direct ex factory, (or by recognised distributors), from South Island stations to North Island destinations beyond Wellington, via the Cook Strait rail ferries or the Railways Blenheim–Wellington rail/air service, will be charged railage computed on the total distance conveyed by rail in both Islands (as though a single rail journey was involved) in accordance with the relative rates and conditions as prescribed in the General Scale of Charges or Local Rates Scale of Charges.

(b) In addition to railage as prescribed above, separate charges for conveyance from Picton to Wellington by the rail ferries or from Blenheim to Wellington by rail/air (as the case may be), based at the rates applicable to such transport will be applied.

  1. The provisions of this section will apply only to the products and commodities set out hereunder—

Agricultural equipment and attachments for same.
Asbestos-cement products.

Baking powder.
Basketware.
Batteries.
Bedding and bedding materials (including sleeping bags).
Beekeepers’ woodware and comb foundations (honey frames).
Beverages, including wine, cider, fruit juice, cordials, and whisky but excluding beer, stout, and aerated waters.
Beverage powders.
Bicycles and parts and accessories for same.
Biscuits.
Bituminous paving and roofing products.
Boats.
Bottles, new.
Brushes and brooms, including mops.
Buildings, pre-cut or prefabricated.

Cable and wire for electrical or communication purposes.
Candles.
Canoes.
Canvas goods.
Caravans and components.
Carpets, underfelts, linoleum, and other floor-coverings.
Chalk, school also raddle.
Charcoal.
Cider.
Cigarettes and cigars.
Clothing.
Coke.
Confectionery.
Cordials.
Cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and toilet goods.
Concrete products.
Custard powder.

Detergents and household and industrial cleaners.

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Earthenware products, including products made of china, structural clay, or pottery.
Electrical equipment and appliances.
Farm implements and machinery and attachments for same.
Fibreglass products.
Fish products, processed.
Food products—fully processed, including tinned and bottled foods, food spreads, frozen foods, freeze-dried foods, dehydrated foods, breakfast foods, spaghetti, macaroni, vermicelli, pasta, semolina and other farinaceous foods (excluding flour, bran, pollard, and wholemeal), biscuits, soup mixes and confectionery.
Footwear.
Fruitjuice.
Fungicides.
Furniture, built up and in kitsets, metal and wooden (including sink-bench units and cupboards).
Gases, in bulk or cylinders.
Gelatine.
Glassware including new bottles.
Glue, gelatine, and rennet.
Gravestones, polished marble headstones and memorials (packed).
Herbicides.
Ink, writing.
Insecticides.
Insulating materials.
Jewellery.
Lawn mowers.
Leather, semi-tanned, fully tanned, or dressed.
Leather products.
Life-jackets.
Linoleum.

Machinery, including farm implements and machinery and attachments for same.
Metal and alloy products, manufactured (excluding primary aluminium, aluminium alloys in ingot, billet or similar forms and aluminium re-draw rod).
Millinery.
Motor cycles and scooters and accessories for same.
Motor vehicles and tractors and their components.
Musical instruments.

Paint, creosote, wood, and metal preservative and similar commodities.
Paper and paper products.
Pens, marking.
Perambulators and push-chairs.
Pesticides.
Pet foods (processed).
Pharmaceuticals.
Plaster products.
Plastic products.
Plywood, veneer, and other processed timber products including particle board and joinery, but excluding posts, poles, logs, and sawn timber.
Polishes.
Pottery, china, earthenware, and structural clay products.



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🚂 Transport & Communications
16 June 1976
Freight Rates, Through Booking, Cook Strait, Rail Ferries, Rail/Air, South Island, North Island, Commodities