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vision of the customs authorities. The same terms and facilities are granted
to the goods of aW nationalities.
The Leydseheveem Company has since its establishment paid an annual
dividend to shareholders of from ß to 7 per cent.
RATES OF THE PAKHUISM EESTEREN.
'The Pakhuismeesteren Warehouse Company has provided me with
a detailed table of storage charges;“ this may be accepted as representing
the usual rates for similar service in most of the warehouses here.
The rates shown include storing charges, which range from about 24
to 19 cents per 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds) ; rents, including insur
anee, which are from about one-tenth of a cent toll cents per month
for the same quantity; and delivery charges, ranging from about 1.6
to 10 cents per 100 kilograms.
THE “ HOLLANDSVFEM (LIMITED).”
The warehouse company “ Hollandsveem (Limited),” under date
of September 29, 1904, wrote me as follows:
Although we do not own bonded warehouses, but store dutiable goods in the
tree entrepôt, we think it may interest your Government to know the following
about our concern :
Our company is an auxiliary branch of the firm J. T. Yervloet & Co., and the
shares are in the hands of the owners» of this firm. We have no warehouses of
our own, but have taken the lease for one, five, and ten years of some buildings
ln the city and along.the quays, which is more economical and offers less risk of
wholesale destruction by fire.
Those of our warehouses that are situated on the quays can be easily
a Pproached by barges, from which the goods are transferred to the several floors.
We have goods weighed, sampled, sorted, cleaned, bulked (coffee, etc.), stacked
piles in lots, reweighed, packings renewed or repaired at the delivery, etc.
we issue warrants for dry stock, such as coffee, metals, etc., guaranteeing the
Weight as taken in. These warrants are to bearer, and the rent has to be paid
every five years at the latest. The warrants may be pawned at the banks for 75
to 80 per cent of the market value, on the strength of our contract with the Bank
the Netherlands, who have our deposit of .$20,000 as a guarantee fund. The
bre insurance premium for goods stored on such warrants is included in the rent
storage rate. For goods of variable weight the warrants issued by us to
bearer do not include weight risks, and the insurance is covered for the amount
burned in the warrant.
We are charging the same rates per 100 kilograms per month as our competitors,
including fire insurance, but we are open to contract with firms who regularly
wish to keep a large stock under our care.
We have accommodations to store all sorts of goods which are not dangerous,
explosive, or highly combustible, or malodorous. We store American lard,
bacon, dried fruits (apples, plums, prunes, apricots), oils, oleomargarine, tobacco,
Bitch, etc. Goods stored under our care in the general government bonded stores
ban remain there any length of time, provided the rent (storage dues) be paid
either monthly or quarterly. The goods arriving by steamers from the United
States are discharged in sheds, and the receivers have to send their own laborers
to remove them ou vans.
Supervision over the bonded warehouses by customs officials is exercised as
explained above.
NEED OF WAREHOUSES AT ROTTERDAM.
It is only of late years that the need for the large storage warehouses
and sheds of the community, the “ veemen ” and other warehouse
companies has been felt. Notwithstanding the fact that the
Majority of the great warehouses on the left bank of the river Maas,
0 Filed in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor, where
t bey may be consulted by parties interested.
