WHARFAGE AND TONNAGE RATES IN HOKITIKA.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 221, 16 April 1868, Page 4

WHARFAGE AND TONNAGE RATES IN HOKITIKA.

In the exercise of the powers delegated to tho Hon John Hull, Esq., ho has gazetted tho following schedule of charges to be levied upon goods " landed upon the parcel of ground known as Gibson's Quay" : Bran, one shilling per 60 bushels. Bricks, three shillings per 1000. Carrots, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Coals, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Chaff, two shillings per 2240 lbs. Cattle, two shillings and sixpence per head. Dairy Produce, bacon, beef, &c, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Flour, one shilling per 2000 lbs. Fruit (green), one shilling and sixpence per ton measurement. Grain, one shilling per 40 bushels. Horses, two shillings and sixpence each. Lime, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Machinery, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Mangoldwurtzel, one shilling per 22401b5. Onions, one shillings per 2250 lbs. Potatoes, one shilling per 2240 lbs. Poultry, free. Palings, two shillings per 1000. Sawn timber, threepence per 100 ficial 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 Sited. (In addition to the above charges.) On goods lauded 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 Shed from other parts of the wharf to be stored— Receiving, one shilling and sixpence per ton. Delivering, one shilling and sixpence per ton.