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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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that may accrue to any such cargo or produce, by the elements or otherwise, during the time they may so remain on the wharf: Provided always that the Wharfinger shall not be bound to find storage-room either in the sheds or on the wharf or landing-place for any cargo or produce when no sufficient accommodation is available for that purpose.

6. No person taking any vehicle on the wharf shall allow the same to go at greater than a walking pace.

7. Any person taking any vehicle drawn by one horse on the wharf or jetty on which vehicles or horses are permitted to be taken shall walk at the head of and lead his horse, and remain by the same so long as the vehicle is on the said wharf, pier, or jetty; and no person shall ride on horseback on the wharf, pier, or jetty, but shall dismount and lead his horse.

8. Any person taking any vehicle drawn by two or more horses on any such wharf, pier, or jetty, as mentioned in the preceding regulation, shall ride on the said vehicle so as to keep the horses attached thereto as far as possible under his control while the said vehicle is in motion, and shall stand by the said vehicle when and so long as the same shall be at a standstill on any such wharf, pier, or jetty.

9. All persons in charge of vehicles shall be under the control of the Wharfinger or his deputy, and such persons shall, immediately on being so ordered by the said Wharfinger or his deputy, remove such vehicle to any part of the wharf to which he may be directed, or shall, if so required by the said Wharfinger or his deputy, remove such vehicle altogether from the wharf. No person shall be allowed to take any bicycle or tricycle upon the said wharf except for the sake of shipment, or by permission of the Wharfinger or his deputy.

10. No person shall disobey the orders of the Wharfinger or his deputy when acting in the due performance of their duty, nor in any way obstruct the traffic on any wharf, pier, jetty, or landing-place, nor make use of abusive or improper language thereon.

11. All goods landed on any wharf or landing-place, or brought thereon for shipment, are to be placed as the Wharfinger or his deputy may direct, and no goods or other articles shall be placed in any shed or on any wharf or landing-place so as to be an impediment to the approaches, or an obstacle to the removal of other goods from shed, wharf, or landing-place, or so as to encumber the mooring-posts or rings on any such wharf or landing-place.

12. Shippers and consignees of all goods landed on or shipped from the said wharf shall, before landing or shipping such goods, deliver to the Wharfinger or his deputy a full and true account of all such goods, stating the respective weights or measurements of the same according as freight is payable thereon. All charges to be paid previous to delivery of goods.

13. The master of every vessel shall, on demand, give to the Wharfinger or other person deputed by him a copy of the bill of lading, freight-list, or manifest of the cargo, or other proper account of all goods intended to be unshipped from the vessel, and the name or names of the owners to whom all or any goods in such vessel are intended to be delivered.

14. All goods landed on the wharf shall be removed therefrom or stored before 4 p.m. on the day upon which they are landed, except as provided by Regulations 15 and 16.

15. The wharf shall be open daily for business from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Sundays and holidays excepted): Provided that, when vessels arrive by 6 a.m., then the wharf shall be open from the time of the arrival of the vessel and until 4 p.m. Goods to be removed during those hours without storage being charged.

16. The Wharfinger is empowered to take charge of and store cargo if not removed by the consignee during the working-hours of the day upon which the same has been landed, or to cause the same to be delivered to the consignee at his risk and expense: Provided always that any consignee may notify to the Wharfinger in writing that he will remove his goods that day, and does not require storage; the Wharfinger's liability for loss or damage done to the goods whilst waiting removal to cease from the time of receipt of notice. Labour for loading, if required, to be supplied by the Wharfinger to 5 p.m.

Goods such as bricks, coal, iron, and timber may be left on the wharf for two working-days, at the request of the consignee, without liability to extra charge for wharfage, and free of storage (provided that the proper working of the wharf is not obstructed thereby); but the Wharfinger shall not be responsible for the safety of such goods.

17. Vessels, or the owners or agents of such vessels, shall pay storage upon all cargo landed between the hours of 4 p.m. and 6 a.m., and upon all goods landed and stored on Sundays and holidays, consignees paying single wharfage only.

Vessels to pay for all overtime incurred between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. on working-days, and for all labour on Sundays and holidays.

19. Goods landed for reshipment shall have precedence of all other goods stored in the sheds.

20. In the construction of the above regulations the terms and expressions following shall have the meanings hereinafter assigned to them:—

“Wharfinger” shall mean and include the person appointed by the Kaikoura County Council or Wharfinger to collect and receive all dues payable under this Order in Council:

“Deputy” shall mean any officer acting under the instructions or by the authority of the Wharfinger or Kaikoura County Council, as the case may be.

20. If any person fails, refuses, or neglects to do anything required by these regulations, or in any manner obstructs, impedes, or interferes with the doing of anything enjoined or authorised to be done, or wilfully does anything prohibited by these regulations, every such person in any case so offending shall be liable to forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding £5.

21. No person or persons shall deposit goods of any description upon the public highway or lands vested in the Kaikoura County Council, or on any land vested in the said Council adjacent to the wharf.

22. No steamer shall load or unload cargo at the wharf on Sundays without permission of the Chairman of the Kaikoura County Council or his deputy. Such permission will only be given when steamers have been prevented from working by previous bad weather.

23. The Wharfinger for the time being shall have sole charge of the wharf, sheds, boatways, and all the other appurtenances.

24. The charge for labour (if required) upon all Government cargo, shall be 1s. per ton, both inwards and outwards.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Charges and Regulations for Use of Telephones.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of January, 1898.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, certain charges and regulations for the use of telephones were made under the authority of “The Electric Lines Act, 1884”: And whereas it is expedient to alter and amend such regulations in relation to the use of telephones connected with telephone exchanges:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth order that the same shall be read as part of the regulations set forth in the Schedule to the before-mentioned Order in Council, and doth further order and declare that such regulation shall come into force on and after the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

SCHEDULE.

9. No extra telephone, special instrument, or appliances other than those provided and maintained by the department will be allowed to be used by any subscriber in connection with an exchange wire.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

“The Education Act, 1877.”—Payments to Education Boards.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of January, 1898.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1877,” His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby make the regulation hereto annexed regarding certain payments of