Oct. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2135

RODNEY COUNTY.

BY-LAWS TO PREVENT OBSTRUCTION AND DAMAGE AND TO REGULATE THE TRAFFIC ON ALL COUNTY ROADS AND BRIDGES.

(Made by special order dated 9th day of March, 1901, and confirmed on the 13th day of April, 1901.)

IN pursuance of the powers vested in them by “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and all the amendments thereof, and of all other powers, if any, the Council of the County of Rodney do hereby repeal all traffic by-laws for the time being in force within the County of Rodney, and in lieu thereof do make and ordain the following by-laws for the Rodney County, that is to say,—

1. No person shall take or drive over any bridge or culvert under the care, control, or management of the Rodney County Council any machine or vehicle of a greater weight, inclusive of any load thereon, than one ton and a half if such machine or vehicle have not more than two wheels, or three tons if such machine or vehicle have more than two wheels.

2. For the purpose of computing the respective weights referred to in clause 1 of these by-laws—
   (a.) Forty cubic feet of firewood shall be deemed to weigh fourteen hundredweight.
   (b.) Five hundred superficial feet of kauri shall be deemed to weigh fifteen hundredweight.
   (c.) Five hundred superficial feet of puriri, totara, rimu, or kahikatea shall be deemed to weigh one ton.

3. No person shall take, lead, or drive any horse, or take or drive any engine, agricultural, or other machine, or any vehicle, over any bridge of a greater span than ten feet, under the care, control, or management of the Rodney County Council, at other than a walking pace.

4. The owner and driver of every vehicle, while the same is being drawn along any road, bridge, ferry, or ford under the care, control, or management of the Rodney County Council, shall not fasten or lock, or cause, suffer, or permit to be or become fastened or locked, in order that such fastening or locking may act as or serve the purpose of a brake, any wheel of such vehicle.

5. No person shall, between the first day of May and the thirtieth day of September, both inclusive, in each year, take or drive, or cause or suffer or permit to be taken, driven, or drawn, over any road, bridge, ferry, or ford under the care, control, or management of the Rodney County Council—
   (a.) Any four-wheeled vehicle the tires of which—
   (1.) Are less than one inch and a half in width, with more than two horses or bullocks;
   (2.) Are less than two inches in width, with more than four horses or bullocks;
   (3.) Are less than three inches in width, with more than five horses or bullocks;
   (4.) Are less than four inches in width, with more than six horses or bullocks:
   (b.) Any two-wheeled vehicle the tires of which—
   (1.) Are less than two inches in width, with more than two horses or bullocks;
   (2.) Are less than three inches in width, with more than three horses or bullocks;
   (3.) Are less than four inches in width, with more than four horses or bullocks;
   (4.) Are less than five inches in width, with more than five horses or bullocks;
   (5.) Are less than six inches in width, with more than six horses or bullocks.

6. Any person who commits a breach of any of these by-laws shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding in any case the sum of five pounds.

7. These by-laws shall come into force on the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one, and shall apply to the whole of the Rodney County.

The resolution to make these by-laws was adopted at a special meeting of the Council of the County of Rodney held at the Chambers of the said Council, in the Town of Warkworth, on Saturday, the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and one, and was confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the said Council on Saturday, the thirteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Rodney County was affixed hereto at a meeting and by order of the Council of the said county on the thirteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one, in the presence of—

NATHANIEL WILSON,
Chairman.

HENRY R. FRENCH,
Clerk.

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WAITOTARA COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of the Waitotara County Council to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road in the County of Waitotara running through the Native block of land known as Kai Iwi Number 6n from the Great North-western Road, and for the purposes of such public work to take, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” the land described in the Schedule hereto.

And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the said road and of the land so required to be taken is deposited at the storehouse of Messrs. A. and D. Brown, at Maxwelltown, in the said county, and is there open for public inspection.

And notice is hereby further given that all persons affected by the taking of the said land for the purposes aforesaid shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing within forty (40) days from the first publication of this notice (being the 31st day of October, 1901) to the Waitotara County Council, at its office in Ridgway Street, Wanganui.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece of land, being part of Kai Iwi Number 6n, containing two (2) acres two (2) roods and thirty-five (35) perches, more or less, bounded towards the south by the Great North-western Road, five hundred and one (501) links; towards the south-west by other part of Kai Iwi Number 6n to the centre of the Okehu Stream, one hundred and seventy-two decimal two (172·2) links; towards the north-west and north by the centre of the Okehu Stream; towards the east by other part of Kai Iwi Number 6n, two hundred and fifty-six decimal two (256·2) links; and thence by the old Native cemetery known as Ngawaierea, forty-four (44) links, six hundred and nine decimal five (609·5) links, and two hundred and ten (210) links, to the Great North-western Road.

Dated this 31st day of October, 1901.

H. E. DYMOCK,
Clerk to the Waitotara County Council.

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BOROUGH OF WESTPORT.

I, JAMES SCANLON, Mayor of the Borough of Westport, do hereby certify that the Borough Council of Westport, at a special meeting of the said Council held on Tuesday, the 17th day of September, 1901, by special order duly passed the following resolution:—

“That for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of £7,000 under ‘The Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1900,’ and ‘The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,’ and subsection (3) of section 2 of ‘The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment Act, 1899,’ for the erection of abattoirs for the Borough of Westport, the said Borough Council does, by special order, make and levy a special annual-recurring rate of threepence in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property within the said Borough of Westport, as appearing upon the valuation rolls for the time being in force; and that such rate shall be payable half-yearly on the third day of January and the third day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan (being a period of forty-one years); and that the first instalment of the said rate shall become payable on the third day of January, 1902.

“The said Westport Borough Council doth also by this special order pledge as security for the said loan of £7,000 the whole of the land agreed by the said Council to be purchased for the said abattoirs, and all of the erections, works, and buildings to be constructed thereon, and all of the income to be derived therefrom and all and every the revenue thereas and therefrom.”

And I further certify that the said special order was duly confirmed at an ordinary meeting of the said Council held on Wednesday, the 23rd day of October, 1901.

Dated at Westport, this 28th day of October, 1901.

JAS. SCANLON,
Mayor.

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