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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 100

VICTORIA.

Port of Port Phillip.—West Channel.

Referring to General Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated 24th September, 1901, page 69, mariners are hereby notified that a sand knoll has formed on the western side of the West Channel. Such knoll is situated N. 52° W. 3½ cables distant from No. 8 channel buoy, and has a least depth over it of 13 ft. at low water.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 31st October, 1902.

West Channel.—Port Phillip.

Referring to General Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated 24th September, 1901, page 69, mariners are hereby notified that, owing to the formation of several knolls in the vicinity of No. 8 buoy, West Channel, the available depth at low water in the channel is now 17 ft.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 1st November, 1902.

Customs Holiday.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to order that the following day shall be kept as a holiday at the Customhouses at the undermentioned ports, as the anniversary of the foundation of the settlement within which such ports are situate—viz., 1st December, at Hokitika and Greymouth, and any other port to be hereafter declared within the limits of the Provincial District of Westland: Provided that when the said day falls upon a Sunday the following day shall be kept as a holiday.

W. C. WALKER,
For Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Public-School Cadet Companies recognised.

Education Department,
Wellington, 4th November, 1902.

THE undermentioned public-school cadet companies and detachments are recognised under the regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 15th May, 1902 :—

The Wanganui Education District.

The Feilding District High School Cadet Company.
The No. 1 Hawera District High School Cadet Company.
The No. 2 Hawera District High School Cadet Company.
The Mangaweka Public School Cadet Company.
The Patea Public School Cadet Detachment.
The Ohingaiti Public School Cadet Detachment.
The Terrace End (Palmerston North) Public School Cadet Company.
The Foxton Public School Cadet Detachment.

The Hawke’s Bay Education District.

The No. 3 Napier Main Public School Cadet Company.

The Marlborough Education District.

The Springlands Public School Cadet Detachment.

The North Canterbury Education District.

The Christchurch West Public School Cadet Company.

W. C. WALKER.

By-laws regulating Traffic on Piringia West and other Roads.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 130 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and its amendments, I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do, in respect of the Government roads known as Piringia West Road (from Te Rau-a-moa through Piringia West Block), Okupata Road (from Oparau to Piringia West Road, about four miles from Te Rau-a-moa), Hauturu Road (for four miles from Te Rau-a-moa), Mairoa Road (for thirteen miles from Miroahui ao), Kihikihi—Otorohanga Road (between Puniu Bridge and Otorohanga), Te Kuiti Block Road (between Te Kuiti and Hangitiki), Hangitiki—Waitomo Road (between Hangitiki Railway-station and Waitomo caves), hereby make the following by laws :—

1. The use of bullocks as traction animals on the said roads is prohibited for the period from 1st May to 1st November in any year.

2. The haulage or transportation on the said roads of any vehicle, engine, or machine coming under the definition of “heavy traffic” within the meaning of clause (a) of subsection (1) of section 130 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” during the months of May, June, July, August, and September in any year shall cease.

“Heavy traffic” is defined, in the section above referred to, to be “the transportation of any vehicle, engine, or machine which shall itself, or together with any thing or things being transported thereon, weigh more than one and a half tons avoirdupois to each pair of wheels.”

3. The width of tires of all vehicles upon the said roads, whether plying for hire or not, shall bear the following proportion to the number of animals employed to draw the same, that is to say :—

If the Number of Animals used to draw a Vehicle having Four Wheels be—

No more than eight bullocks shall be used at any one time as traction animals to any vehicle having two wheels, nor more than twelve bullocks as traction animals to any vehicle having four wheels.

4. I do hereby prescribe that the weight of timber carried on any vehicle subject to these by-laws shall be ascertained by measurement at the rate of 600 superficial feet of timber to the ton weight avoirdupois; and I do further prescribe that the manner of ascertaining the weight of the following articles shall be by computation according to the following scale :—

Wheat, 10 bags of 4 bushels to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
Barley, 12 " " "
Oats, 14 " " "

5. The driver of any vehicle or machine shall, at the verbal request of any person authorised by me, stop such vehicle or machine, and shall give such information as to the load thereon or contents thereof, and as to the quantity, weight, size, or measurement of the same, as such person shall require, and the driver shall stop such vehicle or machine for such reasonable time as such person may require for the purpose of ascertaining such quantity, weight, size, or measurement.

6. If any person shall commit a breach of any of the foregoing by-laws he shall be liable, upon conviction for such breach, to a penalty of £5: Provided that the Court before which proceedings may be taken in respect of such breach may, if it thinks fit, impose such lower penalty as it may think adequate to the particular case.

As witness my hand, this second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Lands in the Marlborough Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 7th September, 1902, duly taken and laid out through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a Warrant of the date mentioned herein.