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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Two men could work a bonded warehouse of the average capacity of 
5,000 tons. 
The classes of goods stored comprise wines and spirits, beer, to 
bacco, cigars, tinned fish, barbed wire, preserved fruits, etc. Spirits 
remain in bond a considerable time, but it is hardly possible to state 
with any certainty how long any goods remain as a rule. All goods 
stored for three years have to be rewarehoused or sold. American 
firms make very little use of the bonded warehouses in this district. 
All nationalities are treated exactly alike by the administrators of 
the warehouses. Goods are removed to and from bonds by drays 
and lorries. The service is ample and satisfactory. Prices range 
from 36 to 60 cents per ton, ships’ weight or measurement, as the case 
may be. 
Each bonded warehouse is under the personal supervision of a 
customs officer during official hours. The owners are under sub 
stantial security to the department. There are two locks of different 
pattern for each bond, the key of one being held by the bond pro 
prietor and that of the other by the department. 
W. J. Weatherill, Consular Agent. 
Brisbane, Queensland, July 0#, 1901^. 
NEWCASTLE, NEW SOUTH WALES. 
(From United States Consul Goding, Newcastle, New South Wales.) 
There are nine bonded warehouses at Newcastle, owned by as 
many different firms; the total capacity is about 13,500 tons. In 
these warehouses the patrons’ goods are protected for him. The 
proprietor furnishes all labor and space required for receiving, 
stacking, repacking, and delivering the goods, and all implements 
necessary for examination, marking, weighing, coopering, etc. The 
proprietor also pays a license fee to the Federal Government, vary 
ing from $75 to $750 per annum, according to the size of the ware 
house and the time occupied in supervision by a customs official. 
The rent and charges payable on goods stored in government-owned 
warehouses are as follows: 
Warehouse charges at Neiccastlc, New South Wales. 
Article. 
Receipt 
and 
delivery. 
Rent per 
week. 
Other charges (cents). 
Liquids, in bulk, per package: 
84 gallons or over 
45 to 84 gallons 
30 to 45 gallons 
20 to 30 gallons 
Under 20 gallons. 
Liquids, in bottles or tins: 
Spirits, kerosene, oils, gasoline, dis 
infectants, etc.— 
5 gallons and upward 
3 to 5 gallons 
Under 3 gallons 
Tobacco, per hundredweight or part. _. 
Cigars, cigarettes, and snuff, per pack 
age of— 
90 pounds and over 
40 to 90 pounds 
Under 40 pounds 
Cents. 
35 
24 
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12 
8 
6 
4 
2 
12 
12 
78 
12 
Cents. 
12 Repacking, 90; regauging, 35. 
5 Repacking, 48; regauging, 24. 
3 Repacking, 35; regauging, 18. 
2 Repacking, 24; regauging, 18. 
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4 
Examination, 4. 
4 
3 
2 
Examination, 24; reweighing, 12.