224 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 7

or together with any thing or things being transported thereon, weigh more than one and a half tons avoirdupois to each pair of wheels; (b) the traction of any vehicle or thing by means of bullocks, notwithstanding that such vehicle or thing may separately or together with any load thereon weigh less than one and a half tons avoirdupois:

(g.) “Inspector” or “Road Inspector” means any person for the time being acting as Inspector:

(h.) “Road,” “bridge,” “ferry,” “ford,” and “culvert” means any road, bridge, ferry, ford, or culvert respectively under the care, control, or management of the Council:

(i.) “Traction-engine” or “engine” means any locomotive-engine propelled by steam-power, or by any other power applied to engines used for the purpose of hauling or carrying goods:

(k.) “Vehicle” means and includes any coach, carriage, omnibus, drag, car, cab, cart, dray, wagon, timber-carriage, lorry, sledge, van, express-wagon, and any other conveyance, whatever be its construction, drawn by animals, in or by which passengers may be carried or in or by which goods may be removed upon land from place to place:

(l.) The Schedules hereto form part of this by-law:

(m.) Words of the singular number shall include the plural, and words of the plural number shall include the singular.

2. The width of the tires of the wheels which shall be used by all vehicles, whether plying for hire or not, on roads within the county shall be in proportion to the number of wheels thereof, and to the weight of load carried thereon, and to the number of animals employed in drawing the same, and shall be not less than the respective widths specified in Schedule A to this by-law, and no person shall use on any road within the county any of the descriptions of vehicles mentioned in the said Schedule with any greater load, or with any greater number of animals employed in drawing the same, or with any less width of the tires of the wheels of such vehicle, than as specified in the said Schedule.

3. No person shall use any traction-engine which, together with any thing or things carried thereon, shall weigh more than one and a half tons avoirdupois to each pair of wheels on a road within the county unless the same shall be duly licensed in manner hereinafter mentioned.

4. No person shall use any vehicle on a road within the county which, together with any thing or things carried thereon, shall weigh more than one and a half tons avoirdupois to each pair of wheels unless the same shall be duly licensed in manner hereinafter mentioned.

5. No person shall ply for hire with any vehicle for the carriage of passengers or goods within the county unless such vehicle shall be duly licensed in manner hereinafter mentioned: Provided always that no vehicle in respect of which a license-fee shall be payable under section 4 of this by-law shall be subject to the payment of an additional license-fee under this section.

6. Any person owning or using a traction-engine or vehicle who shall desire to obtain a license for the same shall deliver at the office of the County Clerk an application in writing, signed by him, pursuant to the form contained in Schedule C to this by-law, or to the like effect, describing such engine or vehicle, and, if the said engine or vehicle is for public use, shall submit the same to such inspection as the County Clerk shall require; and no license shall be granted in respect of an engine or vehicle which shall appear on inspection to be unsafe, or insufficient for public use, or likely to prove a source of danger to persons using the roads on which it is used; and for any such license granted there shall be paid to the County Clerk, to be placed to the credit of the County Fund, such sum or sums of money as are respectively specified in Schedule B to this by-law.

7. The Council may, as a condition precedent to the granting of any such license, require the person applying for the same to enter into a bond, with or without a surety or sureties, to the Council in such penal sum as the Council shall deem proper, that such person shall pay to the Council reasonable compensation for any special damage which shall accrue to any road, bridge, ferry, or ford under the care, control, or management of the Council by reason of any heavy traffic thereon by the traction-engine or vehicle in respect of which such license shall be granted, which bond shall be in the form set forth in Schedule D hereunder, or to the like effect.

8. Licenses for engines or vehicles may be in the form in Schedule E hereunder or to the like effect, and shall continue in force for one year from the date of issue and no longer.

9. In every such license there shall be specified the number and duration of the license, the name and place of abode of the owner of the engine or vehicle in respect of which the license is granted, the description of the engine or vehicle, the width of the tires of the wheels of the vehicle, the weight of the engine or vehicle when loaded and unloaded, and the number of animals (if any) which may be employed to draw the same.

10. No person shall use on a road within the county a traction-engine or vehicle required by this by-law to be licensed, excepting vehicles not plying for hire, unless such engine or vehicle shall have painted in some conspicuous place on the off-side thereof in white letters and figures on black ground—such letters to be not less than one inch in length, and such figures not less than six inches in length and of proportionate breadth respectively—the full name of the owner of such engine or vehicle, and the number of the license which shall then be in force in respect of such engine or vehicle.

11. The driver of every traction-engine or vehicle required by this by-law to be licensed shall have the license for the same in his immediate personal possession, and shall, whenever required by any Road Inspector for the county, or any officer or constable of police, or by any person having a general authority in that behalf signed by the County Clerk, produce such license for inspection forthwith. Any driver who shall on being so required refuse or fail forthwith to produce such license shall be guilty of a breach of this by-law.

12. It shall be lawful for any Road Inspector for the county, or any officer or constable of police, or any person having a general authority in that behalf signed by the County Clerk, to from time to time and at any time measure the width of the tires of the wheels of any vehicle then being within the county, whether such vehicle shall be plying for hire or not. No owner or driver of any vehicle shall refuse to permit such measuring, or shall in any way resist or hinder, or attempt to resist or hinder, or to prevent or obstruct such measuring. In determining the width of a tire for the purposes of this by-law, only so much thereof shall be reckoned as will touch the ground on a smooth macadamised road.

13. Nothing herein contained shall apply to any vehicle upon springs used exclusively for carrying Her Majesty’s mails.

14. Every person in charge of an engine within the county shall observe the following regulations and conditions:—

(A.) The speed of an engine shall not exceed two miles an hour while crossing a bridge or culvert.

(B.) When an engine shall be on a road or bridge, and distant not more than one hundred yards from any person riding, driving, leading, or otherwise in charge of a horse upon a road or bridge, the whistle of such engine shall not be sounded, nor shall the cylinder-tap be opened, or the steam blown off or allowed to attain a pressure such as to exceed the limit fixed by the safety-valve of such engine, within the sight or hearing of any person so riding, driving, leading, or in charge of a horse as aforesaid.

(C.) No engine shall pass along or come upon a bridge at any time while any person with a horse, or vehicle drawn by a horse, is on such bridge; nor shall any engine, or wagon attached thereto, be permitted to stop on any bridge, culvert, or ford, excepting for the purposes mentioned in “The Police Offences Act Amendment Act, 1890.”

(D.) No ashes or refuse from the furnace of any engine shall be discharged upon a bridge or culvert, or upon any wooden structure appertaining to the road, or upon a road within one chain of a bridge, or culvert, or wooden structure as aforesaid.

(E.) No ashes or refuse discharged from the furnace of an engine shall be left in a heap on a road within the county, and such ashes or refuse shall, immediately upon being discharged from any engine, be thoroughly soaked with water, and spread evenly on the road.

(F.) No engine shall be taken across any bridge which shall have studs or rings of iron or other metal affixed to or raised upon the level of the tires of the wheels of such engine which may have or be likely to have the effect of sinking into, breaking, or splitting the surface of such bridge or any of the planks thereof.

(G.) Before any engine is taken across any bridge or any culvert the planking of which is exposed, all stones or other substances which might, if passed over, injure the planks or surface of such bridge or culvert shall be removed from such bridge or culvert.

(H.) The person in charge of an engine shall give immediate notice to the County Clerk or Road Inspector for the county of any damage or injury which shall be done by such engine or any wagon attached thereto to a road or to any fence, gate, bridge, culvert, ford, watercourse, drain, or side ditch under the care, control, or management of