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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 13

Borough Council Offices,
Sydenham, February, 1885.

SIR,--I have the honour, pursuant to the provisions of sec-
tion 145 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," to give
you notice of the result of the poll taken on Monday, the 16th
day of February instant, respecting the proposal of the Coun-
cil to borrow £25,000 sterling for the purpose of constructing
concrete side-channelling and kerbing to the footpaths in
the streets of the borough, and for asphalting the said foot-
paths, secured by a special rate not exceeding one farthing in
the pound sterling upon the rateable values of all the rate-
able properties within the borough, and the rents and profits
of the Council's property, namely, Reserve No. 2379, con-
taining 847 acres 2 roods 34 perches; Rural Section No.
30494, containing 345 acres; 5 acres, part of Rural Section
No. 72, and 1 rood, part of Rural Section No. 79, Bowen
Street, Sydenham.

The votes recorded were as follow:--

For the proposal .. .. 863 votes.
Against the proposal .. .. 15 ,,
Informal papers .. .. .. 15 ,,

As the number of votes in favour of the proposal exceeds
one-half of the number of the burgesses (viz., 1397), I have
declared the resolution to be carried.

I have, &c.,

W. WHITE, Jun.,
Mayor.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
Wellington.

By-laws made by Karori-Makara Road Board, County of
Hutt.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1885.

THE following by-laws, made by the Karori-Makara Road
Board, are published in accordance with "The Road
Boards Act, 1882."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

KARORI-MAKARA ROAD BOARD BY-LAWS.

1. Any person who at any time or from time to time
   causes, permits, or suffers to run from any premises in his
   occupation into or upon any road or public place, or upon
   any footway, or into any channel any offensive liquid or other
   matter shall be guilty of an offence.

2. Every person who shall deposit, or cause or procure or
   permit to be deposited, upon any public road, footway, chan-
   nel, or other public place within the district any refuse or
   offensive matter whatsoever shall be guilty of an offence, and
   notwithstanding the liability of such person to a penalty he
   shall also bear all the costs which may be incurred by the
   Board in removing the same.

3. In the construction of these by-laws the term "refuse"
   shall mean and include all kinds of refuse matter whether
   offensive or otherwise, and the term "nuisance" shall, but
   without excluding any other acts, defaults, or omissions which
   may be nuisances, be held to include the following acts,
   defaults, and omissions, notwithstanding any specific pro-
   visions relating to the same shall have been made in any
   other by-law or in any of these by-laws:—

(1.) Throwing or depositing any glass, filth, dirt, rubbish,
or matter of a similar nature upon any road, footway,
or public place whatsoever :

(2.) Depositing any casks, cases, tanks, goods, materials,
or empties of any description whatever upon any road
or public thoroughfare :

(3.) Placing any timber, bricks, stones, or other building
materials upon any footway, channel surface-drain,
road, or public place without permission from the
Board so to do :

(4.) Planing, sawing, mixing mortar, or executing any
builders' work upon any footway, road, or public
place without such permission as aforesaid :

(5.) Allowing any shavings, hay, straw, paper, or other
materials during the progress of any work, loading, or
unloading to be blown about any road or public
thoroughfare :

(6.) Burning any shavings, straw, or other materials or
matter upon any footway, road, or public place
without written permission from the Board to do so :

(7.) Drawing or trailing any sledge, timber, or other
material upon any footway or road to the injury of
such footway or road :

(8.) Driving any vehicle or riding any horse at other
than a walking pace across roads and bridges :

(9.) Opening any drain or sewer, or removing the surface
of any footway or road, or making any cellar-door or
opening from the footway of any road or public
thoroughfare, without written authority from the
Board to do so :

(10.) Placing any obstruction on any road or footway
whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered :

(11.) Placing any placard or other document, writing, or
painting on, or otherwise defacing, any building or
house, or any wall, fence, lamp-post, or gate, without
the consent of the owner or occupier thereof, or
Board :

(12.) Defacing any house, building, wall, fence, gate, or
place by writing or placarding thereon any profane or
obscene language :

(13.) Blasting any rock, stone, or timber in or near any
public road without permission of the Board :

(14.) Leaving any dead beast on any road or public place,
or on any private property within 50 yards of any road,
whereby an offensive smell is created :

(15.) Throwing any night-soil, carrion, or offensive matter
into any stream, watercourse, or open drain, or any
animal, with the intention of drowning it, into any
such stream, watercourse, or open drain :

(16.) Allowing the contents of any privy or cesspit to soak
therefrom so as to be offensive, or allowing any privy
to remain in full view from any public road or
thoroughfare :

(17.) Carrying on business of a blood-boiler, bone-boiler,
fellmonger, soap-boiler, tallow- or glue-melter, tripe-
boiler, or any other noxious or offensive business,
trade, or manufacture, unless licensed or permitted
by the Board to do so :

(18.) Discharging any firearms or letting off any fireworks
without permission of the Board.

4. Any person furiously or negligently riding or driving
   on any public road or thoroughfare shall be guilty of
   an offence.

5. Any person riding on any cart, dray, wagon, or other
   vehicle without having and holding proper and sufficient
   reins, or without some competent person having charge of
   the animal or animals drawing the same, and any person
   driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, and
   when meeting any other vehicle or animal not keeping on
   the left or near side of the road, or when passing any vehicle
   or animal going in the same direction not going or passing,
   or not allowing any person desirous so to do to pass, when
   practicable, on the right or off side of such vehicle or animal,
   shall be guilty of an offence.

6. The driver of every cart, dray, wagon, or other vehicle
   which shall, during the hours after sunset of any day and
   before sunrise of the following day, be in any road within the
   district, shall keep a light attached to or suspended from the
   off or right side of such vehicle, so as to be plainly visible to
   the driver of any dray, wagon, or other vehicle proceeding
   along or through such road in a contrary direction to that in
   which such first-mentioned vehicle shall be directed, and
   every driver who shall fail to comply with this section shall
   be guilty of an offence.

7. Every person guilty of an offence under these by-laws
   shall be liable for such offence to a penalty not exceeding £5,
   and, in every case where such offence shall be a continuing
   one, to a further penalty not exceeding £5 for every day or
   part of a day during which such offence shall be continued.

As to Trees, &c., overhanging Roads.

8. If the occupier of any land within the district permits
   or suffers any part of any tree or shrub growing upon such
   land to overhang any part of any public way or place
   therein he shall be guilty of an offence, and the Board shall
   be at liberty, without any notice to such occupier, to instruct
   any one they may appoint to cut away and remove any such
   part of any such tree or shrub.

9. Every person who wilfully allows any furze or gorse hedge
   to remain untrimmed after receiving one month's notice to
   trim or cut the same shall be guilty of an offence, and any
   person appointed by the Board shall be at liberty to cut
   away or remove any such part of any such tree or hedge.

As to Horses and Cattle straying on Roads.

10. Any person turning loose any horse or horses, or any
    cattle, upon any district road, or allowing any animal or
    animals to wander on any district road or thoroughfare
    within the district, shall be deemed guilty of an offence
    against this by-law, and shall, upon conviction, forfeit and
    pay a sum of 2s. per head.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the
by-laws of the Karori-Makara Road Board.

F. DOWSETT,
Chairman.

The seal of the Karori-Makara Road Board was hereunto
affixed on this 14th day of February, 1885, in the presence
of—

W. J. TABOR,
Clerk, Karori-Makara Road Board.

Extracts from Minutes of 14th February, 1885, of
Karori-Makara Road Board.

Resolved, That this Board doth hereby adopt the by-laws
relative to offences, and straying of horses and cattle on
roads, and as to trees, gorse, and other shrubs overhanging