New Zealand Gazette – 1980 – No. 61

Page 1597

✨ Railway Freight Rates



No. 61 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1597

COOK STRAIT RAIL FERRIES

Class of Goods Rate Per *From Wellington to Picton not Otherwise Specified *From Picton to Wellington Not Otherwise Specified
$ $
Timber complying with the following minimum wagon loadings will be charged ... ... cub. metre 25.40 22.24
Minimum wagon loadings—
Each La wagon—12 cub. metres
Each Lc or Nc—wagon 15 cub. metres
Each bogie wagon—25 cub. metres
Trotting sulkies ... ... each 10.23 8.94
Wheat—see Grains
Wool—
Undumped ... ... ... ... Per bale 8.20 7.16
Double dumped or dense packed ... ... Per double Dump or dense packed bale 16.37 14.34

*For goods conveyed solely between Picton and Wellington, see paragraph (c) hereof.

(b) (i) Inter-island Consignments Railed to or from Petone-Upper Hutt Inclusive or Tawa-Plimmerton Inclusive: Goods of classes C and D consigned inter-island from or to stations Petone-Upper Hutt inclusive (including Lower Hutt and Gracefield) and stations Tawa-Plimmerton inclusive will be charged railage for the North Island portion of the journey (to or from Wellington) at $20.45 per tonne. Small lots will be charged as per subparagraph (iii) hereof.

(ii) Inter-island Consignments Railed to or from Blenheim-Koromiko Inclusive: Goods of classes C and D consigned inter-island from or to stations Blenheim-Koromiko inclusive will be charged $20.45 per tonne for the South Island portion of the rail journey (to or from Picton). Small lots will be charged as per subparagraph (iii) hereof.

(iii) Small Lots—The railage charges for small lots consignments in each island (where applicable) will be as follows:

Weight Not Exceeding Classes C and D
kg $
25 1.10
50 1.60
75 2.10
100 2.80
125 3.30
150 3.80
175 4.40
200 5.10
225 6.00
250 6.80

(iv) Goods of classes A, B or wool conveyed over the journeys specified in subparagraph (i) and (ii) hereof will be charged railage in each island as follows:

Class A at $40.90 per tonne.

Small lots will be charged at the scale prescribed in subparagraph (iii) increased by 100 percent.

Class B at $30.68 per tonne.

Small lots will be charged at the scale prescribed in subparagraph (iii) increased by 50 percent.

Wool—Undumped or single dump $3.03 per bale; double dumped or dense packed $18.17 per tonne.

(v) Parcels Traffic—Parcels consigned from Wellington/Upper Hutt inclusive (including Lower Hutt and Gracefield) and from Wellington/Plimmerton inclusive to Picton/Blenheim inclusive and vice versa and conveyed in accordance with the provisions of the parcels classification (section 54) will be charged as follows:

kg or m³ 5 or 0.025 10 or 0.05 15 or 0.075 20 or 0.1 25 or 0.15 or 0.2 or 0.3
$2.20 $2.75 $2.85 $3.10 $3.20 $4.75 $6.45

Note: The terminal charge vide section 55, paragraph 4 will be additional where parcels traffic is consigned from South Island stations to Wellington, Petone, Lower Hutt, or Gracefield.

(c) Consignments Railed Solely between Wellington and Picton—(i) Goods traffic railed solely between Wellington and Picton via the Cook Strait rail ferry service will be charged at the following rates irrespective of classification:

From Wellington to Picton From Picton to Wellington
$ $
Goods, not otherwise specified, per tonne or cubic metre ... ... ... ... 40.57 35.49
Wool—
Undumped or single dump ... ... ... 11.74 10.27
Double dumped or dense pack ... ... ... 23.47 20.55


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