HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT RATE.
A STATEMENT CONTRADICTED. In regard to the item which appeared in Saturday's issue of '.'The Press," stating that a strong protest was made at the last meeting of the Kaikoura County Council regarding the Lyttelton Harbour Board levying Is 6d per ton on cargo to Kaikoura, the secretary of the Lyttelton Harbour Board has supplied us with the following:— The County Council's statement is incorrect, and apparently based on a misconception. The Board at its last meeting mcroased the harbour improvement rate now in force at Lyttelton from 6d to Is per ton, as from January Ist, 1922, not to Is 6d per ton, as would appear frdm the County Council's The statement that "overseas cargo,. for which harbour improvements were chiefly made, are not so charged," is also incorrect; all goods landed or shipped at Lyttelton are subject to the harbour improvement rate. Coastal cargo from Kaikoura (or elsowhere) for transhipment, or cargo transhipped at Lyttelton from an oversea vessel into a coastal vessel, or vice versa, pays harbour improvement rate once only. That is to say, goods from Kaikoura for transhipment into, a Home steamer (or other vessel) will pay the rate when landed into trucks for conveyance to the vessel into which the goods are transhipped, but the goods do not pay rate again on being taken on Boar/ (shipped by) the second vessel. ' The Hoard's by-law speaks for itself. In regard to the general question of encouragement to coastal cargo, the Board's wharfage bylaw also treats transhipments and reshipped goods very fairly. Goods lauded for transhipment watnin 28 days, or transhipped from one vessel to another, either direct or over the wharves immediately, aye free of wharfage. Goods reshipped within thyee calendar months of being landed-at Lyttelton, are free of outwards wharfage, if_ accompanied by the necessary declaration, and provided the goods have not in any way changed their original character. It may be mentioned that the harbour improvement rate at Wellington is Is 6d per ton, and is charged on all gonds landed, except coal, ballast and goods which are the product of the Dominion, and which are landed for' transhipment to vessels to be carried out of the Dominion: on coal landed on wharves or transhipped overside at wharf, a charge of twopence per ton is made.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17320, 5 December 1921, Page 6
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