New Zealand Gazette – 1981 – No. 42

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✨ Railway Freight Rates



  1. Bulk Tonnage

  2. Goods of Classes A, B, C (except explosives), D, E (except those scheduled under category A, section 72, General Scale of Charges), E plus percentages, G and section 85, General Scale of Charges, will be conveyed at the rates specified in paragraph 2 hereof subject to the following conditions:

(a) The minimum quantity forwarded each and every week shall be the weight specified in paragraph 2 which shall include goods railed in the reverse direction. An average of 5 tonnes per four-wheeled wagon and 10 tonnes per bogie wagon based on each week's outward loadings except on routes as indicated by an asterisk (*) where an average of 6 tonnes per four-wheeled wagon and 12 tonnes per bogie wagon based on each week's outward loadings will apply. In no case will the quantity of goods consigned under the provisions of this section be less than 1 tonne per four-wheeled and 3 tonnes per bogie wagon.

(b) Cranage—Cranage will be charged on the daily aggregate weight of lifts at $2.26 per tonne.

(c) The goods carried under the provisions of this section will be conveyed at owner's risk.

(d) Participation in the rate is subject to written agreement with the department.

(e) All loading and unloading to be performed by owners.

  1. Rates:
Station Between And Rate per Tonne $ Minimum Weekly Total (includes Goods Railed in the Reverse Direction) tonnes
Auckland, Mt. Eden, Tamaki, Onehunga, Otahuhu, and intermediate stations *Whangarei—Port Whangarei inclusive 30.08 50
*Te Rapa, Frankton, and Claudelands 16.91 60
*Cambridge 20.68 20
*Morrinsville 22.24 20
*Matamata 28.51 20
*Tokoroa 35.01 20
*Kinleith 35.01 20
*Rotorua and Kouru 37.62 40
*Tauranga 33.29 40
*Taneatua 41.47 40
Kawerau 69.19 20
*Te Awamutu 20.68 20
*Te Kuiti 28.51 20
*Taumarunui and Manuni 38.27 20
*New Plymouth Breakwater and Bell Block 55.43 25
Wanganui 97.51 20
Palmerston North 97.51 25
Levin 103.52 20
Wellington and Ngauranga 116.56 60
*Hastings, Napier, and Ahuriri inclusive 54.08 90
Masterton 111.54 20
Auckland, Newmarket or Penrose 32.22 20
Auckland or Penrose *Dargaville 33.29 40
Auckland and Penrose *Mt. Maunganui 81.49 20
Frankton Palmerston North 51.43 20
Penrose 97.51 25
Wellington, and Ngauranga Frankton and Claudelands 116.56 20
Rotorua 79.48 20
New Plymouth Breakwater and Bell Block 67.34 80
Hastings, Napier, or Ahuriri 34.36 40
*Wanganui 95.51 20
Gisborne 85.49 20
Hastings and Ahuriri New Plymouth Breakwater and Bell Block 60.70 20
Hastings Wanganui 42.42 25
Hastings, Napier, and Ahuriri inclusive 69.19 25
Christchurch, Belfast, Hornby, Woolston, and intermediate stations Blenheim 54.29 20
Greymouth 73.47 20
*Ashburton 12.85 20
*Timaru 20.68 25
Oamaru 57.49 20
Dunedin Dunedin 75.48 40
Invercargill 103.52 25
*Oamaru 16.28 20
*Alexandra 32.22 20
*Balclutha 12.85 20
*Gore 20.68 20
Invercargill 52.68 25

The foregoing rates are at "owner's risk".

  1. Haulage and Storage Charges, New Plymouth-Breakwater Line
Paragraph 1 (a) Omit Insert
$19.86 $23.83
$3.70 $4.44
$6.34 $7.61
Paragraph 2 $15.68 $18.82
$15.68 $18.82
$3.74 $4.49
Paragraph 3 $2.15 $2.58
$1.07 $1.28
$2.15 $2.58
Paragraph 4 $4.27 $5.12
$2.15 $2.58


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🚂 Alterations to the Scales of Charges Upon the New Zealand Government Railways—Amendment No. 36 (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
13 April 1981
Railway Charges, Freight Rates, Bulk Tonnage, Haulage, Storage