Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, March 28, 1867.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has duly authorised

Cyrus Davie, Esq.,
Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, to sign maps, under Clause 1 of “The Land Registration Amendment and Extension Ordinance, 1852.”

F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

Bye-Law, No. 6.

A Bye-law for Licensing and Regulating Public Carriers and Carriages used for the carriage of Goods plying for hire within the City of Christchurch and within eight miles from the corporate limits thereof, made in pursuance of “The Christchurch City Council Ordinance, 1862,” and of “The Hackney Carriage Ordinance, 1864.”

1. No cart, waggon, van, or other vehicle used for the transfer or conveyance of goods for hire shall ply for hire or wait on any public stand within the City of Christchurch or within the distance of eight miles from the corporate limits thereof, until and unless a License to be called a “Carrier’s License” shall have been duly obtained for the same, as hereinafter specified.

Provided that in case any licensed vehicle shall be undergoing repair, or shall be unfit for use, the owner thereof may let or permit to ply for hire in lieu thereof any other vehicle which he shall have been permitted by the Town Clerk to use, but for such time only as he shall be so permitted by the Town Clerk.

2. No such vehicle shall be licensed except on application signed by the owner thereof, being made in the form specified in Schedule A hereunto annexed, and delivered at the office of the Town Clerk.

3. Every License for any such vehicle shall have stated thereon the name and place of abode of the owner thereof and shall be numbered in such order as may be determined by the Council, and shall be in the form specified in Schedule B hereunto annexed.

4. Every License shall remain in force until the end of the 31st day of December next ensuing the date thereof.

5. Any License may be renewed for one year from its expiration on application being made at the office of the Town Clerk by the owner of the vehicle thereby licensed not later than the 15th day of the month of December.

If required, leaving the same with the Town Clerk, who shall give him a receipt for the same.

6. For every License there shall be paid to the Town Clerk if granted on or before the 30th day of June in any year, a fee of two pounds, and if granted after that day the sum of one pound, and for every renewal of any License the sum of two pounds.

7. The owner of any licensed vehicle shall before plying the same for hire, paint upon a conspicuous part of the off side thereof, and upon no other vehicle, his own christian name and surname in full, the words “Licensed Carrier” and the number of the License in consecutive order in words and figures of not less than two inches in height, white, upon a ground of black, and shall keep such painting legible and undefaced during all such time as such License shall continue in force.

8. The rate for the transfer or conveyance of goods by any licensed vehicle shall be according to the scale specified in Schedule C hereunto annexed, it being at the option of the hirer whether such fare shall be payable by time or by distance. And a copy of such Schedule shall be supplied by the Town Clerk, together with his License to every owner on whose application such License shall be granted.

9. The Council shall appoint, and may from time to time alter the number and places of the public stands for licensed vehicles, and the number of vehicles to be allowed to wait at each stand, and the appropriation of any part or parts thereof respectively for foot passengers, and so soon as conveniently may be thereafter shall give notice of every such appointment, alteration, or appropriation by advertisement in one or more of the newspapers published within the City of Christchurch.

10. The driver of any licensed vehicle shall take his station on any public stand on which he shall wait for hire in the order of his arrival on such stand and in the event of the station before him being vacated shall immediately thereupon take such station.

11. No driver of any licensed vehicle plying for hire, or waiting on any public stand shall refuse or neglect between the hours of sunrise and sunset to carry a reasonable load or to let out such vehicle for hire for any distance within eight miles from the corporate limits of the city when thereunto required unless the same be then actually hired by some other person.

12. It shall be the duty of the driver of any hired licensed vehicle to load and unload such vehicle, and if he cannot load or unload the same without assistance to assist in loading or unloading the same.

13. The driver of any hired licensed vehicle shall, on being required so to do, produce to the person hiring or paying for the same the copy of the Schedule of fares with which the owner of such vehicle shall have been furnished under section 8 of this Bye-law.