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14. The driver of any licensed vehicle shall not, while plying for hire or waiting on any public stand, cause any obstruction or create any disturbance.

15. The driver of any licensed vehicle shall not permit the same, whether with or without a horse or horses, to stand elsewhere than on a public stand longer than may be necessary for the loading or unloading the same.

16. The driver of any licensed vehicle shall remain constantly in attendance on the same while hired or plying for hire or waiting on any public stand.

17. No driver shall feed any horse whilst on any stand otherwise than by means of a nose-bag, or shall remove such horses' blinkers whilst being fed.

18. The penalty for any breach or non-observance of any provision of this Bye-law shall be a sum of not less than Ten Shillings, nor more than Five Pounds, to be recovered by summary proceedings before one or more Justices of the Peace.

19. If any such breach or non-observance be committed by the owner of any licensed vehicle, the Council shall, and if the same be committed by any driver thereof the Council may proceed to recover the penalty hereinbefore provided against such owner. Provided that if in the latter case the Council shall elect to proceed against such owner, such election shall not prejudice or prevent any proceedings in respect of the same offence against the driver.

20. The words “Town Clerk,” when used in this Bye-law, shall mean the Town Clerk of the City of Christchurch. The word “Vehicle” shall mean and include any cart, wagon, van, dray, or other vehicle which shall be used for the transfer or carriage of any goods, matter, commodity, or thing, and not expressly adapted and used for the conveyance of passengers, and which shall be drawn by horse, ass, or cattle power. The word “owner” shall mean and include any person letting, or professing to let for hire, any vehicle for the transfer or carriage of goods, and the word “driver” shall mean and include any person for the time being in charge of or attending upon any vehicle licensed under this Bye-law.

SCHEDULE A.

CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.

Bye-law No. 6, Sec. 2.

An Application for a Carriers Licence.

To the Chairman and members of the Christchurch City Council.

I, ____ residing in ____ do hereby request that a Carriers Licence may be granted to me to use, employ, and let a ____ to ply for hire within the said City, and within the distance of eight miles from the corporate limits thereof and I hereby undertake to comply with all Bye-laws which may be in force in this behalf so long as such license may continue.

Dated this ____ day of ____ 18 ____

(Signed) ____

Licence authorised by the Christchurch City Council this ____ day of ____ 18 ____

Licence No.

Chairman of the Council.

SCHEDULE B.

CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.

Bye-law No. 6, Sec.

Carriers Licence, No.

City of Christchurch to wit—

Whereas ____ of ____ as made application for a Carrier’s Licence to ply for hire pursuant to the provisions of Bye-law No. 6 of the Christchurch City Council, entitled “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.”

And whereas the issue of such Licence has been duly authorised by the said Council:

Now, therefore, I, the Town Clerk of the said City, by the authority and on behalf of the said Council, do hereby License the said ____ to ply for hire as a Public Carrier within the distance of eight miles from the corporate limits thereof the said ____ of which the said ____ is owner and which is numbered ____ until the 31st day of December, 18 ____ and no longer, subject to the said Bye-laws, and to such other Orders, Regulations, and Bye-laws as may from time to time be in force until the said 31st day of December.

Town Clerk.

SCHEDULE C.

CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.

Bye-law No. 6, Sec. 8.

Table of Rates for the carriage of Goods.

By distance.

For every load transferred or carried for any distance within and not exceeding one mile ... 8s.
For every subsequent half mile or part thereof ... 1s.

For a fractional part of a load by special agreement ... at the rate.

Detention to be paid for at the rate per half hour or part of a half-hour 1s. 6d.

By Time.

For the first hour or part thereof ... 4s.
For every subsequent half-hour or part thereof ... 1s. 6d.

Made by the Council at a meeting held on the 18th day of March, 1867.

W. WILSON, Chairman.

GEORGE GOODON, Town Clerk.

Assented to by the Superintendent, with the advice of the Executive Council.

W. S. MOORHOUSE, Superintendent.

F. E. STEWART, Provincial Secretary.