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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
chants. In all other towns throughout the colony the public bonds 
are conducted by private individuals. 
These warehouses receive and deliver all sorts of goods, repack 
tobacco, cigars, etc., and reweigh fruits, and charge according to 
a fixed scale. 0 
All classes of goods are stored in warehouses, more particularly 
the merchandise that bears the highest rate of duty—namely, to 
bacco, cigars, and boots and shoes. The more prominent merchants 
use the bonded warehouse considerably, and some of the smaller firms 
and private individuals who have no storage room of their own 
depend entirely upon the public bond warehouses. There are no 
American firms in Auckland who make use of the warehouses. 
When goods have been stored in bond for three years, they must 
be either rewarehoused for another term of three years or destroyed 
or sold by public auction to defray duty and bond rent, and in this 
respect all nationalities are treated alike. The goods are conveyed 
from the wharf or from bond by wagons or carts at a rate of 2 
shillings (48 cents) per ton. Stationed at every public bond ware 
house there is a government official who is called a locker. The 
duties of this officer are to see that the proper entries are passed 
and that there is no default in payment of the duty. 
F. Dillingham, Consul-General. 
Auckland, New Zealand, July 21,1904. 
SAMOA. 
(From United States Consul-General Heimrod, Apia, Samoa.) 
The facilities in this district for storage of merchandise in transit 
or bond, from which goods may be withdrawn for shipment else 
where without payment of customs dues, are (1) the government 
warehouse, owned by the German Government and conducted by its 
customs officials—a one-story frame building 30 by 70 feet, erected at 
an approximate cost of $3,000; (2) a private storeroom, owned by 
the Deutsche Handels and Plantagen Gesellschaft, used exclusively 
for the storage of its own merchandise in transit or bond. It com 
prises the basement of the company’s principal store. Approximate 
height from base to ceiling, 12 feet; width, 30 feet, and depth, 180 
feet. 
The scale of charges for entry and storage in the government 
warehouse is as follows: For the handling of each package, includ 
ing entry and withdrawal, 40 pfennigs (9.52 cents) ; for storage per 
month, not exceeding 1 cubic meter (35,314 cubic feet), 20 pfennigs, 
(4.76 cents) ; more than 1 cubic meter, per month, 40 pfennigs (9.52 
cents). 
The principal articles placed in the government warehouse com 
prise all kinds of alcoholic drinks, cigars, and tobacco, of which 
about 6 per cent are imported from the United States. The time 
goods remain in bond seldom exceeds six months. The removal of 
a Tariff of charges is on iile in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Com 
merce and Labor.