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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.