✨ Port Charges and Fees
Port Charges, Harbour Fees, Pilotage Rates, Lighthouse Dues, &c., (Continued).
| Where to be Levied. | LIGHT DUES. | PILOTAGE. | PORT CHARGES. | SHIFTING OF HARBOURMASTERS' FEES. | FEES FOR BOAT LICENCES. | FEES FOR LICENCES TO BOATMEN & WATERMEN. |
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| Provinces or District. | Port. | Charged at each time of Entering Inwards only. | Per Ton Register. | Charged both Inwards and Outwards. | Per Ton Register. | Classes of Vessels which pay Port Charges, and how levied. |
| WELLINGTON -- continued. | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Wanganui | Vessels from ports beyond the Australian Colonies ... | 3 | All vessels when piloted by signals from the staff only ... | 3 | Nil. | Ditto | ... | 1 | Same as Wellington. | |
| | | All vessels from the Australian Colonies ... | 2 | River pilotage ... | 3 | | | | | | |
| | | Steam and sailing vessels coastwise ... | 0½ | | | | | | |
| | | Note.—Light dues only to be levied at Wanganui on vessels arriving from the eastward. | | | | | | | |
| | Manawatu | Nil. | All vessels ... | 6 | Nil. | Ditto | ... | 1 | Same as Wellington. | |
NOTES.—1. In addition to the Pilotage rates in the above Schedule there is a charge of 15s. per day for the first three days, and 10s. per day after the first three, for any period that a Pilot may be detained on board any vessel, whether by stress of weather, quarantine, or otherwise. (See “Harbour and Quarantine Regulations for the Ports of New Zealand,” Clause 13, in New Zealand Gazette for 1868, p. 279.)
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Where Municipal Corporations have been established under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” and have adopted section 3 of Part X of the thirteenth Schedule to the said Act (referring to boats and boatmen) the provisions of the Harbour Regulations regarding boats and boatmen, and the foregoing scale of License Fees, are by the said Act superseded.
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There are licensed Adjusters of Compasses at Otago, Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, and Auckland; and at Otago, Wellington, and Nelson, special conveniences for swinging vessels have been fitted. The authorised scale of fees is as follows:—
For vessels under fifty tons ... £3 3s.
from 50 to 100 tons ... £4 4s.
from 100 to 300 tons ... £5 5s.
from 300 to 500 tons ... £6 6s.
over 500 tons ... £7 7s.
- By the Harbour and Quarantine Regulations for New Zealand it is provided (Clause 21) that “vessels in distress, and whaling vessels, putting into any port through stress of weather, or for water or for provisions, or to refit, are to be exempt from all port dues and from pilotage, except where the services of a pilot are actually made use of.”
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1869, No 39
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Order in Council fixing Port Charges, Harbour Fees, Pilotage Rates, and Lighthouse Dues for the Port of Wellington
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- Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council