JUNE 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1461

4. The maximum weight of goods to be carried at one time or in one load by any such four-wheeled vehicle as aforesaid shall be six tons avoirdupois.

5. The owner or driver of any such four-wheeled vehicle as aforesaid carrying a heavier load than is specified in the last preceding by-law shall each time such vehicle shall carry such heavier load 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. A yearly license fee of twenty-five pounds for each traction-engine, haulage engine or machine used or engaged in heavy traffic in the transportation of timber, wool, grain, or other goods whatsoever upon or over any road, bridge, ferry, or ford in the Spring Creek Road District shall be payable to the said Board. Every yearly license fee payable under this by-law shall be payable at the office of the said Board (in advance) before the engine or machine in respect of which the same shall become payable shall be engaged in heavy traffic as aforesaid; 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 engine or machine for which such fee shall be paid of all the roads, bridges, ferries, and fords in the said Spring Creek Road District from time to time during the said term passable and safe for and not closed to heavy traffic.

7. The owner and driver of each engine and machine for which a license fee shall be payable under the last preceding by-law, and which shall be used upon or over any road, bridge, ferry, or ford in the said Spring Creek Road District whilst any license fee payable for the same shall be or remain unpaid, shall each time such engine or machine shall be so 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.

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

9. Each license issued or granted under the last preceding by-law shall be numbered, and the owner of the 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 “S.C.R.B.,” in figures and letters of the minimum length and 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 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 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.

10. The maximum quantity or weight of goods to be drawn at one time by any such engine or machine as aforesaid over any road, bridge, ferry, or ford in the said Spring Creek Road District shall be twenty tons avoirdupois, and such goods shall be carried by or in four-wheeled vehicles the wheels of which shall have tires of at least the width specified in By-law No. 2 (hereinbefore contained), and which said vehicles shall not respectively carry a heavier load than is specified in By-law No. 4 (herebefore contained).

11. The owner and driver of any engine or machine drawing a heavier load or greater quantity of goods than that specified in the last preceding by-law shall each time such engine or machine shall draw such heavier load or greater quantity of goods 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.

12. The person for the time being in charge of my vehicle, engine, or machine being drawn or used upon or over any road, bridge, ferry, or ford in the said Spring Creek Road District shall, whenever required so to do by any officer or person authorised or employed for the purpose by the said 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. And such person for the time being in charge of any such vehicle, engine, or machine shall, at the verbal request of the officer or person so autho-

rised or employed as aforesaid, give such information as to the load being transported in or by such vehicle, engine, or machine, and as to the quantity, weight, size, or measurement of the same, as such officer or person shall require.

13. 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.

And it is hereby prescribed that the weight of timber carried on any vehicle subject to these by-laws shall be ascertained by measurement at the rate of six hundred superficial feet of timber to the ton avoirdupois. And it is further prescribed 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 bags of 4 bushels to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
Oats 14 bags of 4 bushels to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
P e a s . . 10 bags of 4 bushels to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
Potatoes 12 bags of 4 bushels to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
Chaff .. 25 bags machine- {pressed} to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
.. 35 bags hand- {pressed} to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
Coal .. 12 bags to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
Wool .. 6 (⅔) bales to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
Dressed flax .. 6 bales to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
Firewood .. ⅔ of a cord to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.
Posts and rails ⅔ of a cord to 1 ton weight avoirdupois.

SCHEDULE.

SPRING CREEK ROAD BOARD ENGINE [MACHINE] LICENSE.

No. Annual license fee, £25.

This is to certify that, pursuant to the provisions of By-law No. 6 of the by-laws with reference to heavy traffic passed by the Spring Creek Road Board on the 6th day of May, 1903, the engine [machine] numbered [to be numbered ], of which , is the owner, is hereby licensed to engage in heavy traffic in the transportation of goods, subject to the provisions of the said by-laws, upon and over the roads, bridges, ferries, and fords in the Spring Creek Road District under the care, control, or management of the said Board, and from time to time during the term or period hereinafter mentioned passable and safe for, and not closed to, heavy traffic, for the term or period of one year from the day of , 19 , secretary.

The above-written by-laws were duly made this 6th day of May, 1903.

For the Spring Creek Road Board.

J. H. REDWOOD,
Chairman.

JOHN FAWCETT,
Secretary.

694

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP,
AND NOTICE OF NEW PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto subsisting between us, the undersigned ARTHUR CUNDALL STRONACH, FREDERICK THOMAS STRONACH, s o d CROSBY MORRIS, trading at Dunedin as Stock and Station Agents, under the style or firm of “Stronach Brothers and Morris,” has been dissolved by mutual consent, as from the 16th day of June, 1903.

All debts owing to the late firm will be received by Arthur Cundell Stronach and Crosby Morris, who will, also discharge its liabilities, and will carry on the business in partnership, at the present premises, under the style or firm of “Stronach, Morris, and Co.”

Dated at Dunedin, this 16th day of June, 1903.

ARTHUR C. STRONACH.
FRED. T. STRONACH.
CROSBY MORRIS.

Witness to all signatures—F. J. Stilling, Solicitor, &c., Dunedin.

699

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between us, the undersigned EDWIN PAWSON and WILLIAM TORRANCE IRVINE, carrying on business as Sawmillers, at Dannevirke, under the style or firm of “E. Pawson and Co.,” was dissolved on the 31st day of March, 1903, by mutual consent, and that the business will be in future carried on by the said William Torrance Irvine,