Dec. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2327

Notice to Mariners No. 75 of 1901.

HAURAKI GULF. — TELEGRAPH-CABLE BETWEEN MOTUIHI AND WAIHEKE ISLANDS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 3rd December, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that a telegraph-cable has been laid from the east side of Motuihi Island to a point on Waiheke Island about half-way between Pack Point and Haiteatea Bay. Masters of vessels and others navigating in the vicinity are cautioned not to foul or damage the cable with their anchors or otherwise.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notifying Ringway Settlement, Southland Land District, subject to “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th November, 1901.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” I hereby notify that the under-mentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Ringway Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land in the Southland Land District, situated in the Aparima and Jacob’s River Hundred, containing by admeasurement 2,308 acres and 3 perches, more or less, being Section No. 2 of Block XVI., and Sections Nos. 16, 17, 20, 24, 24A, 25 to 27, and 29 to 43, inclusive, of Block XIV., Jacob’s River Hundred, and Allotment No. 36 on Land Transfer Plan No. 120, being parts of original Sections Nos. 15, 16, 18, 20, and 21, of Block I., Aparima Hundred: as the said area is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 19237, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with red.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Special Order made by the Pelorus Road Board, County of Marlborough, making By-laws.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1901.

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

J. G. WARD.

SPECIAL ORDER made by the Pelorus Road Board, County of Marlborough, making By-laws.

By-laws regulating certain Wheel Traffic and imposing a License Fee in respect of certain Heavy Traffic.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and the several Acts amending the same respectively, and of every other power enabling it, howsoever conferred, the Pelorus Road Board doth hereby repeal the whole of By-law No. 2 of the by-laws made by the said Board in 1884, and gazetted in the Supplement of the 17th day of October, 1884, to the New Zealand Gazette of the 16th day of October, 1884, and doth hereby make the following by-laws with reference to or in connection with heavy traffic upon or over the roads, bridges, ferries, and fords under the care, control, or management of the said Board:—

1. In the construction of these by-laws the words “heavy traffic” shall mean heavy traffic as defined by section 130 of “The Public Works Act, 1894.”

2. The width of the tires of the wheels of each and every vehicle drawn or used upon or over any road, bridge, ferry, or ford in the Pelorus Road District shall, according to the number of wheels of the vehicle and the number of animals employed to draw the same, be regulated by and be according to the provisions of the Schedule A to these by-laws, and be not less than is required or prescribed by such Schedule A hereto: Provided, and it is hereby prescribed, that the width of the tires of the wheels of each logging wagon and of each junker drawn or used as aforesaid shall (notwithstanding that less than seven animals be employed to draw the same) be not less than six inches.

3. The owner and driver of each vehicle drawn or used upon or over any road, bridge, ferry, or ford in the Pelorus Road District of which all or any of the tires of the wheels shall not be at least of the width required, prescribed, or indicated by the last preceding by-law shall, each time such vehicle shall be so drawn or used, severally commit and be deemed to have committed a breach of the said last preceding by-law, and shall be severally liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each such breach.

4. A yearly license fee of five pounds for each two-wheeled vehicle and of ten pounds for each other vehicle, and for each engine and for each machine, which shall be engaged in heavy traffic or in the transportation of timber (whether sawn, split, or in logs), either separately or together with any other thing or things, upon or over any road, bridge, ferry, or ford in the Pelorus Road District, shall be payable to the said Board: Provided that no license fee shall be payable under this by-law for any two-wheeled cart engaged or to be engaged in the carriage or transportation of firewood only.

Every yearly license fee payable under this by-law shall be payable at the office of the said Board (in advance) before the vehicle, engine, or machine in respect of which the same shall become payable shall be engaged in such heavy traffic as is hereinbefore in this by-law mentioned; and the payment of such license fee shall authorise the passing-over and use for the term of one year from the date of payment by the vehicle, engine, or machine for which such fee shall be paid of all the roads, bridges, ferries, and fords in the said Pelorus District from time to time during the said term passable and safe for and not closed to heavy traffic.

5. The owner and driver of each vehicle, engine, and machine for which a license fee shall be payable under the last preceding by-law, and which shall be drawn or used upon or over any road, bridge, ferry, or ford in the said Pelorus Road District whilst any license fee payable for the same shall be or remain unpaid shall, each time such vehicle, engine, or machine shall be so drawn or used, severally commit and be deemed to have committed a breach of the said last preceding by-law, and shall be severally liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each such breach.

6. Upon payment of any license fee payable under By-law No. 4 hereinbefore contained the person paying the same shall be entitled to receive and shall take from the Secretary of the said Board a license (under the hand of such Secretary) in or to the effect of the form set out in Schedule B hereto.

7. Each license issued or granted under the last preceding by-law shall be numbered, and the owner of the vehicle, engine, or machine for which the same shall be issued or granted shall, within seven days from the date of the issue or grant of such license, cause the like number, together with the letters “P.R.B.,” in figures and letters of the minimum width of one inch as to and for each of such figures and letters, to be legibly painted with good white paint on a black ground on the off side of such vehicle, engine, or machine; and shall also cause such painting to be maintained and, if necessary, renewed during the currency of such license; and, in case the vehicle, engine, or machine so licensed as aforesaid shall cease to be so licensed, such owner shall, within three days from such ceasing, cause the said painting to be completely effaced and obliterated. And every such owner as aforesaid failing to comply with any of the provisions or requirements of this by-law shall, for and in the case of each such failure, commit and be deemed to have committed a breach of this by-law, and be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each such breach.

8. The person for the time being in charge of any vehicle, engine, or machine being drawn or used upon or over any road, bridge, ferry, or ford in the Pelorus Road District shall, whenever required so to do by any officer or person authorised or employed for the purpose by the said Pelorus Road Board, cause such vehicle, engine, or machine to be and to remain stopped for a reasonable and sufficient time for the purpose of allowing such officer or person to inspect and examine such vehicle, engine, or machine, and every or any part thereof, and the load being transported therein or thereby; and the person so in charge shall permit such inspection and examination accordingly; and no person shall obstruct any such officer or person in or about making such inspection or examination.

9. Every person committing a breach of any of the provisions of the last preceding by-law shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each such breach.

10. Nothing contained in any of the foregoing by-laws shall apply or extend, or be deemed to apply or extend, to any traffic other than “heavy traffic” as hereinbefore defined.

Schedule A.

A. If the number of animals employed to draw a vehicle having two wheels be two and not more, then the minimum width of the tires of the wheels of such vehicle shall be two and one-half inches.

B. If the number of animals employed to draw a vehicle having two wheels be more than two and not more than four, then the minimum width of the tires of the wheels of such vehicle shall be four and one-half inches.