✨ Wharfage Rates Bye-Law
PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.
and under the sole management and control
of the said Council.
- The following rates and tolls shall be
demanded, due, and payable upon or in
respect of the goods, articles, and things
mentioned in the Schedule following, landed,
shipped, or deposited upon or from the said
Mawhera or Richmond Quays respectively,
or any such other wharves, jetties, quays, or
piers as aforesaid on the River Grey, within
the limits of the Borough of Greymouth—that is to say:—
SCHEDULE.
Coals, a charge of 1s. per ton.
Bran, a charge of 2s. per sixty bushels.
Bricks, a charge of 5s. per thousand.
Cattle, a charge of 2s. 6d. per head.
Horses, a charge of 2s. 6d. each.
Hides, a charge of 1d. each.
Palings, a charge of 2s. per thousand.
Poultry, a charge of 1d. per head.
Sawn timber, a charge of 1d. per hundred
superficial feet.
Shingles, a charge of 6d. per thousand.
Sheep and pigs, a charge of 3d. each.
Slates, a charge of 3s. per thousand.
Vehicles—two-wheeled—a charge of 2s. 6d. each.
Vehicles—four-wheeled, a charge of 5s. each.
All parcels, a charge of 3d. each.
All other goods, wares, and merchandise a
charge of 2s. per ton ship’s measurement.
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It shall not be lawful for any person
to take, carry away, or remove any goods
landed or deposited on the said Mawhera
or Richmond Quays, or any other wharves,
piers, jetties, or quays as aforesaid, from
off the said Mawhera or Richmond Quays,
or any other wharves, piers, jetties, or quays
as aforesaid on the River Grey, and under
the control of the said Council, unless and
until the wharfage rates payable upon the
same have been first paid and satisfied. -
No goods upon which rates are levied
or payable on the depositing or shipping
thereof on or from the said Mawhera Quay
or Richmond Quay, or any such other wharf,
pier, quay, or jetty as aforesaid, shall be
placed on board any ship or vessel, unless
the rates thereon have been first paid or the
contents measured and ascertained by the
Wharfinger or other the proper officer
appointed for that purpose; and the owner
or shipper of any goods shall give to such
officer at least one hour’s notice of his
intention to place such goods on board. -
All goods shall be landed between the
hours of eight a.m. and six p.m. during the
months from October to March, inclusive,
and between the hours of eight a.m. and five
p.m. during the months from April to September, or within such other times as the
Mayor may, on application by writing under
his hand, grant. -
The wharfage rates on all goods landed
or deposited on the said Mawhera or Richmond Quays, or any such other wharf, pier,
jetty, or quay as aforesaid under the control
of the said Council shall be paid and the
goods removed within twenty-four hours
after the same have been so landed or
deposited, otherwise the same may be stored
by the proper officer of the Council at the
expense of the owner of such goods, and the
same shall not be delivered up until the
wharfage rates and expenses thereon have
been duly paid and satisfied. -
Every person who shall land, ship,
deposit, place, keep, or remove any goods
contrary to this Bye-Law, or any provision
thereof, shall, on conviction, forfeit a sum
not exceeding five pounds for every such
offence. -
The owner as well as the consignee of
any goods shall be liable for any rates on
goods on which wharfage rates are payable
under this Bye-Law. -
The word “goods” when used in this
Bye-Law shall include horses, sheep, pigs,
goats, poultry, and live stock, and all other
things, articles, and chattels of every kind
or nature, unless otherwise specified. -
So much of Bye-Laws Nos. 1, 4, and
5 of the said Council of the Borough of
Greymouth as adopts the provisions of Part
Three of the Thirteenth Schedule of the
said “Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,”
in and for the said Borough, and the regulations as to wharfage rates of the Council
passed the fifteenth April, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine:
And the whole of the regulations of the
said Council, made on the twenty-second
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1874, No 42