CUSTOM HOUSE ARRANGEMENTS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1834, 8 January 1880, Page 3

CUSTOM HOUSE ARRANGEMENTS.

The work.of examining dutiable goods in the «heds on the Gladstone Pier has been inaugurated by the'Customs department. The ships Waitara, Southesk, and Euterpe are discharging into the sheds, and are the first Teasels subjected to the new regulations. In eack shed provision has been made for office room for one leading- waiter and a railway clerk, and it is proposed to have all goods passed on sight « retry, or warehousing or for interior towns or transhipment landed into these sheds. The foods passed upon prime entiles are now put .directly from the vosbolb into railway wagons, and sent direct to the consignees. It will be «een that the whole of the import work of the Customs has thus been praotieally transferred to the port, and a little time must elapse before it can be ascertained for certain whether the hopes which bar* been entertained in respect to this new arrangement, both as to the despatch to the vessels and the convenience of be realised. The landingwaiter formerly in charge at the port, Mr Chilman, has now the inspection of dutiable goods from s'eamera at No. 2 Jetty, and from the vessels lying at wharves west of that. So far the change appears to be an improvement as to the time occupied in getting goods, free ar otherwise, into the bonds of the consignees.