Wharfage Rates Bye-Law




PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

and under the sole management and control
of the said Council.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Westland Provincial Gazette 1874, No 42





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