Examples of porterage

• Local populations felt the impact of the colonial administration mainly in terms of the extraction of produce taxes and labour for porterage and military purposes.

• In turn, access to these sources of labour made porterage possible.

• Apart from tax payments and porterage, the most common links between local communities and the wider society were the courts of law.

• Explanations for the eventual decline of up-country traders and porterage must therefore be sought through analysis of change in the early colonial political economy.

• It should be noted that long-distance porterage was a specific kind of migrant labour, with important differences from the more familiar migrant labour systems of the colonial period.

• Their costs, including rent and rates, security, maintenance, gas and electricity, cleaning, health and safety, and porterage are tabulated below.

• By human porterage they made good a lot of the transport they lacked.

• In addition, there are dock dues, quay porterage, landing and carriage charges to final address.

• Beyond that distance porterage is charged only on the additional mileage beyond the free delivery boundary.

• There is no agreed formula for calculating the charges, which include elements for utilities, porterage and maintenance.

• It has been the practice in the past, besides the commission to the salesman, to charge porterage.

• There have been cases where porterage has been excessively charged.

• In some areas—particularly porterage, cleaning and even catering—labour shedding has gone too far.

• I refer to services such as central heating, constant hot water, lifts, porterage, and stair carpets.

• For example, one can think of porterage, the lighting of common areas and the cleaning of common areas.