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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

RIFLES.

Mess Dress (optional).

As per Imperial Dress Regulations for Infantry of the Line, silver being substituted for gold lace, and with scarlet facings.

Uniform.

Jacket.—Same as Mounted Rifles.

Trousers (optional).—Same as Mounted Rifles.

Trousers (Zouave pattern).—Same as Field Artillery, except that ½in. scarlet-cloth welt is substituted for the 1½in. scarlet-braid stripe on leg.

Pantaloons.—Blue cloth, same shape as for Mounted Rifles, with scarlet welt.

Helmet.—Same as Engineers.

Cap.—Same as Mounted Rifles.

Boots.—Same as Mounted Rifles.

Spurs.—Same as for Mounted Rifles. (When trousers are worn, field officers will wear brass box-spurs, adjutants steel box-spurs.

Leggings.—Same as Mounted Rifles.

Greatcoat.—Imperial-service pattern.

BAND.

Bandmasters will wear the dress as for officers of Rifles, with the addition of a lyre embroidered in gold on each arm, below the elbow.

Non-commissioned officers and men of the band will wear the same dress as for Rifles, with the addition of a lyre on each arm below the elbow; embroidered in scarlet worsted for bandsmen, and in silver on scarlet ground for non-commissioned officers.

[M. and V., 95/943.]

Notice of Intention to take Land for Roads in connection with a Further Portion of the Railway from the Main Line of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway to Oteramika and Toitois: Seaward Bush Branch, Part of Matura Section.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1894," to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of roads in connection with a further portion of the railway from the main line of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway to Oteramika and Toitois, Seaward Bush Branch, part of Matura Section, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken; and notice is further given that the plan of the said land is deposited in the Post-office, Oteramika, and is there open for inspection, and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land shall, if they have any well-grounded objection to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth such objection in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Otago; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 17525, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured blue and yellow.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister for Public Works.

Approval of By-law as passed by the Heathcote Road Board.

PURSUANT to the authority contained in the 130th section of "The Public Works Act, 1894," I, John McKenzie, Minister of Lands, do hereby approve of the

within-written by-law made by the Heathcote Road Board, of the Heathcote Road District.

Given under my hand, this sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

THE HEATHCOTE ROAD BOARD.—HEAVY TRAFFIC BY-LAW.

In pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon them by "The Road Boards Act, 1882," and "The Public Works Act, 1894," and of all other powers in that behalf enabling them, the inhabitants of the Heathcote Road District, commonly called the Heathcote Road Board, and hereinafter called "The Board," do hereby make and ordain the following by-law:—

1. Interpretation:—
   (1.) The word "District" means the Heathcote Road District.
   (2.) The words "special kind of heavy traffic" shall mean any vehicle, engine, or machine which shall, itself or together with any stone, road-metal, gravel, sand, earth, clay, screenings, bricks, or nightsoil being transported thereon, weigh more than one and a half tons avoirdupois to each pair of wheels.

2. It shall not be lawful for any special kind of heavy traffic to pass over or along any bridge, road, or street within the boundaries of the district unless the tire of each wheel is at least four inches in width, without the permission in writing of the Board in that behalf first obtained.

3. During the whole of the months of May, June, July, August, and September in each year it shall not be lawful for any special kind of heavy traffic to pass over or along any bridge, road, or street within the district without the permission of the Board in that behalf first obtained.

4. If any person shall desire to carry on the said special kind of heavy traffic during the said prohibited months, or to carry on the said special kind of heavy traffic with a lesser width of tire than that hereinbefore specified, it shall be lawful for the Board to authorise him so to do on his giving security to the satisfaction of the Board that he will pay to it the sum of one shilling for each separate load coming within the definition "special kind of heavy traffic" which he shall pass or cause to pass over or along any road, bridge, or street within the boundaries of the district during the ensuing year, by way of compensation for damage likely to occur to any such road, bridge, or street by reason of such traffic.

5. It shall be lawful for any person acting under the authority of the Board at all times to examine and weigh any vehicle, engine, or machine which he believes to be engaged in "special kind of heavy traffic" within the district, and the contents thereof, and to require from every owner or driver or person in charge of any such vehicle, engine, or machine satisfactory proof of the weight of any such vehicle, engine, or machine, and its contents, or of either. If any person so acting shall be dissatisfied with the proof so offered, he may require the owner or driver, or person so in charge as aforesaid, to drive or convey, or permit him to drive or convey, such vehicle, engine, or machine, and its contents, together with the horses or other motive-power attached thereto, to the nearest public weighbridge, and then have the same weighed. The owner, or driver, or other person in charge of any vehicle, engine, or machine so required to have the same weighed as aforesaid shall pay the cost of so doing.

6. Every person who shall refuse or neglect to produce such proof as aforesaid, or who shall commit any other breach of the provisions of this by-law, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

7. This by-law shall come into force and effect within the said district upon the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

Dated this fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

Passed by the Heathcote Road Board at a special meeting held on the 4th day of July, 1895.

GILBERT HAMILTON McHAFFIE,
Chairman.

ALEX. WEBSTER,
Clerk.

Confirmed by the Heathcote Road Board at a special meeting held on the 1st day of August, 1895.

GILBERT HAMILTON McHAFFIE,
Chairman.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made and confirmed in accordance with the powers of "The Road Boards Act, 1882."

ALEX. WEBSTER,
Clerk.