✨ Wharfage and Tonnage Rates




No. 22.

115

THE COUNTY OF

WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

HOKITIKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1873.

BOROUGH COUNCIL, GREYMOUTH.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Borough of Greymouth in pursuance of the provisions of "The Greymouth Quay's Act, 1869," did, on the tenth day of October, 1873, alter the then existing Wharfage and Tonnage Rates, and did make and levy in the place and stead of then existing Wharfage Rates, the Wharfage Rates contained in the first schedule hereunder written, on such articles as hereunder specified, which, after the date of publication of the notice hereof in the County of Westland Gazette, shall be laden upon any wharf or quay on the river Grey within the limits of the Borough of Greymouth.

And the said Council also did at the same time and in pursuance of the said Act, make and levy, in the place and stead of the said existing Tonnage Rates, the Tonnage Rates contained in the second schedule hereunder written, upon all such vessels as are hereunder specified, and on and after the date of the publication hereof in the said Gazette, loading, unloading, or refitting at or beside any such wharf or quay as aforesaid.

WHARFAGE RATES.β€”1ST SCHEDULE.

On all Coals, laden upon any wharf, not specially leased for that purpose, a charge of one shilling per ton.

Bran, a charge of two shillings per 60 bushels.

Bricks, a charge of five shillings per 1000.

Carrots, a charge of two shillings per 2240 lbs.

Chaff, a charge of two shillings per 2240 lbs.

Cattle, a charge of two shillings and sixpence per head.

Dairy Produce, Bacon, Beef, &c., a charge of two shillings per 2240 lbs.

Flour, a charge of two shillings per 2000 lbs.

Fruit, green, a charge of threepence per case.

Horses, a charge of two shillings and sixpence each.

Hides, a charge of one penny each.

Logs and square timber, a charge of two pence per 100 superficial feet.

Lime, a charge of two shillings per 2240 lbs.

Machinery, a charge of two shillings per 2240 lbs.

Mangold Wurtzel, a charge of two shillings per 2240 lbs.

Onions, a charge of two shillings per 2240 lbs.

Potatoes, a charge of two shillings per 2240 lbs.

Palings, a charge of two shillings per 1000.

Poultry, a charge of one penny per head.

Sawn Timber, a charge of three pence per 100 superficial feet.



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πŸ—οΈ Alteration of Wharfage and Tonnage Rates by Greymouth Borough Council

πŸ—οΈ Infrastructure & Public Works
10 October 1873
Wharfage Rates, Tonnage Rates, Greymouth, River Grey, Borough Council
  • Council of the Borough of Greymouth