Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

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Identifikator:: 863514456

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-45340

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1905

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (206 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Oceania

Collection:: Economics Books

202 WAREHOUSES IX FOREIGN COUNTRIES. The charges are 1 shilling (24 cents) per ton for receiving or delivering general goods; 1 penny (2 cents) per package for mark ing on wharf; 1 shilling per week for rent or storage, and 7s. 6d. per £100 (37.5 cents per $100) per annum for insurance. The classes of goods chiefly stored are drapery, wines and spirits, tobacco, rice, beers, cigars, curry, fish, fruits, milk, starch, sauces, vestas, opium, perfumery, chemicals, kerosene, etc. Goods remain in bond, as a rule, two or three months. Of course, wines, spirits, beers, and tobaccos are often left much longer. All heavily dutiable goods are left in bond till sales actually take place. Apparently Americans do not make use of these warehouses at all unless they do so through their Australian agents. All nationalities are treated exactly alike by the administrators of the warehouses. At the Allen’s bond goods are removed from jetty wharf to bond by rail. The charges, per ton, are: Harbor dues, 2 shillings (48 cents) ; wharfage, 2 shillings; loading into trucks, C pence (12 cents) ; haulage, 1 shilling (24 cents). At other bonds the charges, per ton, are: Lighterage from ship’s side, 5 shillings ($1.22) ; wharfage, 2 shillings (48 cents) ; harbor dues, 2 shillings; cartage, 1 shilling 6 pence (36 cents). The customs officer takes the keys of the bond to the custom house every evening. No one but a duly authorized customs officer is allowed to be in charge of the bond. All the bonds store free goods on account of clients, and there is a good revenue obtainable from this source for the owners. D. J. Brownhill, Acting Consular Agent. Townsville, Queensland, August 29, 1901+. HOBART, TASMANIA. (From United States Consul Webster, Hobart, Tasmania.) The warehouses for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond in this city have a capacity of 13,000 tons, and cost $12,166. Four are owned and managed by the commonwealth Government, and four by private individuals. The public must find cartage and labor when necessary for bring ing goods to the warehouses or for examining them in bond. The department records all particulars of goods warehoused, delivering them upon payment of full duties and charges, but at the same time taking no responsibility with regard to them; or the goods may be reshipped in bond to any port outside the State. Scale of charges for goods warehoused in King’s warehouse, and for goods not entered inward by importer and deposited in King’s warehouses by order of collector are attached hereto.® Receipts for the current year were $6,570, and expenditures $5,350. All ordinary merchandise, except combustibles or explosives, are stored, but chiefly rice, sugar, tobacco, cigars, spirits, oil (not kero sene or inflammable), dried fruits, soap, starch, boots, shoes, and “On file in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.

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