Oct. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2479

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” “The Wellington City Empowering Act, 1897,” “The Wellington City Empowering Act, 1899,” and “The Public Works Act, 1894.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Council of the City of Wellington proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the widening of Riddiford Street, in the City of Wellington—and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Town Clerk to the said Council, situate at the corner of Featherston Street and Brandon Street in the said city, and is open for inspection without fee by all persons during ordinary office hours; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of such lands should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Town Clerk, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Wellington Land District: as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 18th day of October, 1904.

JNO. R. PALMER,
Town Clerk.

1006

WAIHEMO COUNTY BY-LAWS.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and every other Act or Acts amending the same, the Council of the County of Waihemo makes the following by-laws, to come into force on 1st January, 1905:—

BY-LAW No. 9.

21. No person shall, without the permission of the Council, take across any bridge or culvert in any public road any engine, agricultural or other machine or implement, or any cart, wagon, dray, or other vehicle which, whether loaded or unloaded (together with the load therein), shall exceed 6 tons in weight.

22. No person shall ride or drive across any bridge on any public road with any horse, or with any cart, wagon, dray, carriage, or other vehicle, faster than at a walking-pace.

23. Every person riding on a bicycle, tricycle, or motor-car, or other similar vehicle, shall have the same provided with a proper bell or horn attached thereto, and upon meeting any person riding any horse, or driving any vehicle drawn by a horse, or leading any horse, coming in the opposite direction, or on approaching any such person going in the same direction, shall, when within a reasonable distance of each person, and in any event before approaching within 66 ft. of such person, give due warning of his approach by ringing such bell or blowing such horn. If on being so warned the person with such horse shall sufficiently intimate his intention that he should do so, the rider of such bicycle, tricycle, or motor-car, if meeting him, shall dismount and remove the same to the side of the road until the person with the horse shall have passed; or, if going in the same direction, shall, when the person with the horse shall have stopped, take such bicycle, tricycle, or motor-car, or other vehicle past the person with the horse at a walking-pace, and, if requested so to do, shall dismount from his bicycle or tricycle. Every rider of a bicycle, tricycle, motor-car, or other similar vehicle shall, if requested so to do by such person with such horse as aforesaid, give to such person such assistance as may be necessary to enable him to pass such bicycle, tricycle, motor-car, or other similar vehicle in safety with his horse.

24. No person riding on any bicycle, tricycle, motor-car, or other similar vehicle shall pass along or come upon any bridge within the county at any time when any person riding any horse, or driving any vehicle drawn by a horse or horses, is upon such bridge.

25. No person shall ride any bicycle, tricycle, motor-car, or similar vehicle on any public road or public place between the hours of sunset and sunrise, unless the same be provided with proper light or lights on some conspicuous part thereof, to be clearly visible to any person meeting or following the same.

26. No person shall ride or travel on a bicycle, tricycle, or motor-car, or other similar vehicle, on a footpath.

BY-LAW No. 10.

By-law No. 7 of the Council of Waihemo County is amended by adding thereto the following sections:—

10. The owner of every traction-engine shall, on the first Monday in the month of January in each year, or immediately after bringing a traction-engine into the county, pay to the County Clerk a sum equal to five shillings per horsepower of his engine, and shall also send a description of each traction-engine, together with his name and address, and, if he is the owner of more than one engine, then the number of his engines, to the Clerk, in order that the same may be registered; and the County Clerk shall thereupon deliver to such owner a certificate of the registration of such traction-engines for the current year.

11. Every person employed in driving or conducting a traction-engine shall, while so employed, have in his possession a printed copy of By-laws Nos. 7 and 10 of the Waihemo County, and also the certificate of registration mentioned in the preceding clause; and he shall exhibit the same on demand of any persons riding, driving, leading, or in charge of a horse or horses, or to the County Engineer, Inspector, or Clerk.

The foregoing by-laws were adopted at a special meeting of the Waihemo County Council held on the 20th day of August, 1904, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 17th day of September, 1904.

MAGNUS ISBISTER,
Chairman of the Waihemo County Council.

998

BY-LAW NO. 1 OF THE WAIMEA COUNTY.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Counties Act, 1886,” “The Public Health Act, 1900,” “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and every other Act or Acts amending the same, and every other power enabling it in that behalf, the Council of the Waimea County, by special order, hereby makes the following by-law for the purpose of good rule and government of the Waimea County, such by-law to come into force on the 3rd day of November, 1904.

INTERPRETATION.

1. In this by-law, if not inconsistent with the context,—
   “Chairman” and “Clerk” mean respectively the Chairman and Clerk of the Council.
   “Council” or “County Council” means the Council of the Waimea County.
   “County” means the Waimea County.
   “Councillor” means a Councillor of the county.
   “Engine” means any locomotive or portable engine propelled or driven by electricity, steam, or other generated motive power, and not being used upon any railway or tramway.
   “Goods” means and includes merchandise, or any other material whatsoever.
   “Meeting” means any meeting of the Council.
   “Ordinary meeting” means any meeting of the Council held as provided by section 98 of “The Counties Act, 1886.”
   “Special meeting” means any meeting held as provided by section 113 of “The Counties Act, 1886.”
   “Owner” of any vehicle or engine includes a bailee entitled to the possession, use, or profit thereof.
   “Officer” means any person authorised or appointed to carry out the instructions of the Council.
   “Person” includes corporation.
   “Road” means any road under the care, control, or management of the Council, and includes bridges, drains, ferries, and fords, or anything pertaining thereto.
   “Traffic” means the transportation or passage of any persons, goods, or vehicles over any road.
   “Heavy traffic” means any traffic coming within the limits defined by section 130 of “The Public Works Act, 1894.”