THE PATEA WHARFINGER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PATEA MAIL. Sir, —Through the medium of your columns I wish to elicit some information as to what are considered the duties of a wharfinger, and if the Government in their lease of our fore-shore have given valuable and remunerative privileges, and at the same time freed the lessee oT all the duties and liabilities usually appertaining to the owner or keeper of a wharf. Our present wharfinger says that lie is not a wharfinger—that lie is a wharf proprietor ; that the wharf is his private property; that he will not give
receipts to tin; captain or agents of vessels lamling goods on his wharf; that he will incur no responsibility for goods while on the wharf; that he will not take receipts from consignees as they take their goods away from his wharf; that he is not supposed to find trucks or labor or any assistance whatever cither in movinsr goods on the wharf or loading drays for consignees ; that his charge of five shillings per day for the vessel lying alongside the wharf, one shilling per ton for cargo, sixpence for each bale of wool, is a charge fixed by the Government for the use of the wharf only, and entails no duties whatever upon him. There are no doubt those in our community who can give information on this subject. 1 remain, &e., CONSIGNEE.
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Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 15, 2 June 1875, Page 3
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