WHARFAGE AND TONNAGE RATES IN HOKITIKA.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 190, 10 March 1868, Page 2

WHARFAGE AND TONNAGE RATES IN HOKITIKA.

In the exercise of the powers delegated to' the Hon John Hall, Esq., no has gazetted the following schedule of charges to be levied upon goods " landed upon the parcel of ground known as Gibson's Quay" : Bran, one shilling pur GO bushels. Bricks, three shillings per JLoOO. Carrots, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Goals, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Chair, two shillings per 2240 lbs. Cattle, two shillings and sixpence per head. Dairy Produce, bacon, beef, &e, one shilling per 2210 lbs. Flour, one shilling per 2000 lbs. Fruit (green), one shilling and sixpence per ton measurement, rain, one shilling per 10 bushels. TT orses, two shillings and sixpence each. T hue, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Machinery, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Mangold wurtzel, one shilling per 2240 lb Onions, one shillings per 2250 lbs. Potatoes, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Poultry, free. Palings, two shillings per 1000. Sawn timber, threepence per 100 supcrficial feet. Shingles, sixpence per 1000. Sheep and pigs, twopence each. Slates, three shillings per 1000. Turnips, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Vehicles (two-wheeled), two shillings and sixpence each. Vehicles (four-wheeled), five shillings each. All other goods, one shilling and sixpence per ton. Transit Shed. (In addition to the above charges.) On goods landed at the Transit Shed, and left there for a longer time than twenty-four hours, for every week or part of a week, a rent of two shillings per ton. On all goods brought to the Transit Shod from other parts of the wharf to be stored— Receiving, one shilling and sixpence per ton. Delivering, one shilling and sixpence per ton. Rent, for every week or part of a week, two shillings per ton.