Dec. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1729

Special Rating District, comprising the following lands, viz.: Sections 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Block II., Huiroa Survey District, Sections 9, 11, 12, Block XIV., Waitara Survey District; such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for twenty-six years, and to be payable, in two half-yearly instalments, on the 1st of January and the 1st of July in each year.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been made in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

N. SCHUMACHER,
Clerk, Moa Road Board.

Midhirst, 15th December, 1892.

Special Order making By-laws passed by Manawatu Road Board, County of Oroua.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1892.

THE following special order, passed by the Manawatu Road Board, making certain by-laws, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER.—MANAWATU ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Manawatu Road Board did, on the 23rd day of August, 1892, make the following special order:—

That the by-laws prepared by the Board’s solicitor under the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and the amending Acts, and “The Counties Act, 1886,” and the amending Acts—

1. To provide for the inspection of all public vehicles, and to prevent the use of such as are unsafe or insufficient.

2. To provide for the licensing and numbering of all vehicles plying for hire for the carriage of passengers and of goods within the district of the road authority, and to prevent unlicensed vehicles so plying.

3. For regulating the number of passengers and the quantity and weight of goods which may be carried in each such vehicle, both with regard to the construction and dimensions thereof, and the number of horses required to draw the same, and to prevent such number, quantity, and weight being exceeded.

4. For regulating the manner in which the number of passengers and the quantity and weight of goods it is licensed to carry shall be shown thereon.

5. To prescribe how and in what manner the name of the owner of any such vehicle shall be shown thereon.

6. For appointing the several sums to be paid to the Road Board Fund for the licensing of vehicles as herein mentioned.

7. To prescribe the lights to be carried by every vehicle, public or private, within the road district, and their position on the vehicle, and for keeping order on district roads, bridges, footpaths, and footways, and for preventing obstruction thereof, and prohibiting the posting of placards.

8. For regulating, in proportion to the weight of load and the number of animals employed, the width of the tires of wheels which shall be used by all vehicles, and the weight of all vehicles, whether plying for hire or not, within the road district.

9. For regulating the weight of any engine, agricultural or other machine, or vehicle of any kind, and the weight of any load or material of any kind which shall be permitted to pass along any road or across any bridge, and the times when such engines, agricultural or other machines, or vehicles, shall be allowed to travel over roads and across bridges.

10. For regulating the times when and the conditions on which traction-engines may be allowed to pass along the district roads and across bridges.

11. For regulating the pace, mode, and manner at times at which any horses, cattle, engines, agricultural and other machines, or vehicles shall cross or be driven, led, or taken over any bridges.

12. To prevent misconduct on the part of drivers and conductors of vehicles in any of the following matters: (a) obstructing any district road; (b) furiously driving; (c) being intoxicated in charge of vehicle; (d) using insulting language or gesture; (e) leaving vehicle unattended.

13. To prevent nuisances within the road district.

14. To prevent the discharge of any offensive matter and refuse into or upon any district road or public place, and the placing of any obstruction upon any road or footway.

15. To prevent horses and cattle from being at large and without proper guidance on the district roads.

16. To regulate the use of bicycles, tricycles, and similar carriages on district roads, rights-of-way, or public places.

17. For prohibiting the deposit in or discharge upon any district road or into any stream or watercourse so as to cause it to become a nuisance.

18. For prohibiting the throwing of substance or refuse into any stream or watercourse whereby the flow therein may be impeded.

—be and the same are hereby adopted, and that the said by-laws do come into force on the 1st day of October, 1892, and that the common seal be affixed thereto.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made by the Manawatu Road Board, at a meeting held on the 23rd day of August, 1892, and was confirmed at a special meeting, held on the 23rd day of September, 1892.

WALTER RUTHERFURD,
Clerk, Manawatu Road Board.

Special Order made by the Parihaka Road Board, County of Taranaki.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th December, 1892.

THE following special order, made by the Parihaka Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

PARIHAKA ROAD BOARD.—SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT this Board adopts “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” and the provisions of the said Act to be in force in all parts of the Parihaka Road District from the date on which such notice appears in the Government Gazette.

I hereby certify that the above special order was passed and recorded in the minute-book of the Parihaka Road Board, at a special meeting held on Wednesday, the 14th December, 1892.

Wm. MILLS,
Clerk, Parihaka Road Board.

Licensing of Vehicles.—By-law made by Whangarei County Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1892.

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 311 of “The Counties Act, 1886,” that so much and such parts of the by-laws made by the Whangarei County Council, and sealed on the 23rd of November, 1892, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the county funds for the licensing of vehicles, has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Authority to frank.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorise

The SUPERINTENDENT COLLECTORS OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS

to frank and receive letters and parcels, and to frank telegrams, on the business of agricultural statistics only, for a period of four months from the 1st January, 1893.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 28th December, 1892.

THE Gisborne Tent, No. 54, situated at Gisborne, is registered as a branch of the New Zealand Central District Independent Order of Rechabites Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 28th day of December, 1892.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

“Friendly Societies Act, 1882.”—Cancelling of Registry.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registrar of Friendly Societies has, pursuant to section 10 of “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” by writing under his hand dated this 22nd day of December, 1892, cancelled the registry of the Court Pride of Richmond, Register No. 28 (5), branch of the Canterbury United District Ancient Order of Foresters, on the ground that the said branch has been amalgamated with Court Star of Canterbury.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar.