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on such engine, upon some conspicuous part of the off-side thereof, in plain and legible letters of not less than 2 in. in height, and of such a colour or in such manner as to be clearly distinguishable from the colour or nature of the ground whereon such letters are painted; and when such owner possesses more than one engine a separate number distinguishing each such engine shall in like manner be painted immediately below such name and address, but in letters not less than 6 in. in height. The exact and true weight of every engine, and the maximum weight of water and coals necessary for its propulsion, and the exact and true weight of every wagon drawn by such engine, shall be also painted in like manner upon some conspicuous part of the off-side of such engine and wagon respectively.

Registration.

15. The owner of every engine used or to be used upon any road shall, on the first Monday in the month of April in each year, send a description of such engine, together with his full name and address, and, if he is the owner of more than one engine, then the number borne or to be borne by his engines respectively, to the Road Board Clerk, in order that the same may be registered, and the Road Board Clerk shall thereupon deliver to such owner a certificate of the registration of such engine, or of each of such engines, for the then current year.

Copy of By-law and Certificate.

16. Every person employed in driving or conducting an engine on any road shall while so employed have in his possession a copy of this by-law, and the person in charge shall also have the certificate of registration mentioned in clause 15 of this by-law, and every person as aforesaid shall exhibit the said copy by-law and certificate respectively on demand to any member, or official, or employé of the Road Board, or to any constable. It shall be the duty of the owner to furnish every person employed in driving and conducting the engine with such copy by-law, and the person in charge with the certificate.

Saving of Remedies for Injuries from Excessive Weight.

17. Nothing contained in these by-laws or any of them shall be held to relieve any person from any liability to which he may otherwise be subject by law in respect of injury done or damage caused by excessive weight passing along or extraordinary traffic on any road.

Not to travel in Ruts.

18. Traction-engines shall, wherever practicable, be driven so that none of the wheels shall travel in ruts formed in the highway by the wheels of the same or any other traction-engine.

To keep to the Left.

19. Every traction-engine shall be driven as near as practicable to the left-hand side of the highway according to the direction in which such engine is proceeding, without injuring or interfering with footpaths or water-tables wherever the same are constructed.

Repeal of Previous By-laws.

The by-laws made by the Manawatu Road Board on the 23rd day of September, 1892, are hereby repealed.

Given under the common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Manawatu Road District.

The said common seal was hereunto affixed by authority of a resolution of the Manawatu Road Board passed at a meeting held on the 27th day of January, 1898, at which the special order making the foregoing by-laws was confirmed in the presence of—

(SEAL.)
D. BUICK, Chairman.
D. L. SMITH, Warden.
WALTER RUTHERFURD, Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed by the Manawatu Road Board at a special meeting held on the 27th day of January, 1898, in accordance with the provisions of the Road Boards Act.

WALTER RUTHERFURD,
Clerk to the Manawatu Road Board.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th February, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice as to Day for Closing under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS the local authority mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto has duly notified to me that the day upon which the shops in its district shall be closed, pursuant to the provisions of “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,” is the day set opposite its name in the second column of the said Schedule: Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by the said Act, I, Richard John Seddon, Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint that the said day shall be the day upon which all shops within the said district shall be closed.

SCHEDULE.

Ashburton .. .. .. Thursday.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Native Land in the Ongo Survey District, Rangitikei County.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 21st November, 1895, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 18th June, 1894.

SCHEDULE.

HAUHAU ROAD (HAPOPO BLOCK).

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, and deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

Dated this 4th day of January, 1898.

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice to Mariners, No. 11 of 1898.

POSITION OF WRECK OF BARQUENTINE “WAITEMATA,” IN HAURAKI GULF.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 8th February, 1898.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 10 of 1898, issued by this department on the 2nd instant, it is hereby notified that, in addition to the black buoy laid down to mark the position of the wreck, three red lights will be shown until the danger has been removed.

WM. HALL-JONES