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HASTIE, JOHN, “Accommodation House,” South Bank of Hurunui.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. Not less than eight beds for travellers in not less than four separate bed-rooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.

4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, as Weeden’s.

6. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient stock-yard for yoking up cattle.

7 and 9. Nil.

8. To keep a lamp burning with two burners from sunset to sunrise, giving a sufficiently bright light and being so lighted as not to be visible from the northern bank of the Hurunui.

9. To keep at all times a horse for conveyance of foot-passengers across the Hurunui during the hours of daylight in summer and winter, at a moderate charge. Officers of the Supreme Court, magistrates, police constables on duty, and prisoners to be put across free of charge. To afford every assistance in his power in directing strangers to a safe fording.

10. Stalls to be put up in stables within three months from this date.

11. As Weeden’s 18.

LEITH, JOHN, “Accommodation House,” South Bank of the Kowai.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room or room answering thereto, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. Not less than ten beds for travellers in not less than seven separate bed-rooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.

4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, as Weeden’s.

9 and 13. Nil.

6. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient stock-yard for yoking up cattle.

7. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient moveable sheep-proof enclosure, capable of holding not less than 500 sheep; or, at the option of the licensee, to keep one half-acre of land enclosed by a permanent sheep-proof fence.

8. License not to be in force till the Sub-Inspector of Police at Kaiapoi endorse on it that the conditions as to accommodation have been complied with.

9. As Weeden’s 18.

BURNS, JOHN, Ashburton. “Burn’s Accommodation House.”

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room or room answering as such, one sitting-room.

2. Not less than six beds for travellers in not less than three separate bed-rooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least four horses.

4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, as Weeden’s.

9 and 13. Nil.

6. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient stock-yard for cattle, not less than five panels square.

7. A printed or fairly-written copy of the conditions to be kept at all times posted up in some conspicuous place in the tap-room and in the sitting-room, for the information of travellers.

8. To plough and mark, to the satisfaction of the Provincial Government, a line from the Rakaia Ferry to his house, within two months from the time the road is staked out by the Government Engineer.

9. As Weeden’s 18.

WARD, JOSEPH, the Weka Pass.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room or room answering thereto, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. Not less than seven beds for travellers in not less than six separate bed-rooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, as Weeden’s.

9 and 13. Nil.

18. License to be void if a certificate from the Inspector of Police at Kaiapoi, stating that the conditions of the license have been complied with, be not produced to the Resident Magistrate at Christchurch within three months from this date.

19. As Weeden’s.