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3. The computation of quantities set out in the Second Schedule hereto shall be taken and be computed as the schedule of quantities to represent 20 cwt. in each of their several kinds.

4. Any person acting under the authority of the Waiwakaiho Road Board, or any police constable, may at all times examine and measure the tires of the wheels of any vehicle, engine, or machine, and may examine, weigh, and measure any vehicle, engine, or machine, or the load thereon, which in his opinion is affected by these by-laws, when on any district road; and every owner, or driver, or person in charge of such vehicle, engine, or machine, after such measurement or examination shall have been lawfully required, refusing to permit such measurement or examination, or in any way hindering or obstructing the same, shall be guilty of an offence under these by-laws.

5. Heavy traffic of all kinds shall cease during the months of May, June, July, August, and September in each year upon all district roads.

6. The use of bullocks as traction animals upon the gravelled or metalled portions of any district road is prohibited.

7. No horses, cattle, engines, agricultural or other machines, or vehicles shall cross or be driven, led, or taken over any bridge in the Waiwakaiho Road District at more than a walking-pace.

8. Every person guilty of an offence against or committing a breach of or failing to perform any duty imposed upon him by any provisions of these by-laws shall be liable upon conviction for each such offence, breach, or failure to such penalty not exceeding £5 as the Court inflicting the same shall in its discretion think fit, which penalty shall be recoverable in a summary way.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

The following schedule of quantities shall represent 20 cwt. in each of their several kinds:—

Sawn timber or logs, 500 superficial feet.

Firewood, three-fifths of 1 cord.

Boulders, gravel, or broken stone, four-fifths of 1 cubic yard.

Bricks, 350.

Barley, 11 sacks.

Oats, 14 sacks.

Wheat, 10 sacks.

Maize (4-bushel bags), 10 sacks.

Potatoes, 12 sacks.

Wool, 5 bales.

Bonedust or other artificial manures, 10 sacks.

ARTHUR MORTON,
Clerk to the Waiwakaiho Road Board.

Egmont Village, 31st October, 1904.

I certify that the above special order was duly made by the Waiwakaiho Road Board on the 29th day of November, 1904, in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

ARTHUR MORTON,
Clerk to the Board.

8th December, 1904.

Special Order made by the Nelson City Council reducing Number of Councillors.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1905.

THE following special order, made by the Nelson City Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

NELSON CITY COUNCIL.

Special Order.

That, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” the Nelson City Council hereby make the following special order:—

That the total number of members of the Nelson City Council be altered by reducing such number from twelve to nine, exclusive of the Mayor; such reduction to take effect from the last Wednesday in the month of April, 1905.

The foregoing special order was passed at a duly convened special meeting of the Nelson City Council held on the 18th day of November, 1904, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 16th day of December, 1904; and the common seal of the Corporation of the City of Nelson has been hereunto affixed in the presence of—

J. PIPER,
Mayor.

H. V. GULLY,
Town Clerk.

Special Order made by the Waiuku Road Board.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 6th January, 1905.

THE following special order, made by the Waiuku Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Treasurer.

WAIUKU ROAD BOARD.

SPECIAL ORDER passed by the Waiuku Road Board on the 12th December, 1904:—

That, in pursuance of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” the Waiuku Road Board hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £600, at 3½ per cent. per annum, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of metalling further portions of the main Waiuku–Drury Road, the said Waiuku Road Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1½d. in the pound upon the rateable valuation of all the rateable property in the Waiuku Road District comprised within the following boundaries, being part of Waiuku East Parish: Starting from and including Section 47; thence in a north-easterly direction following the southern boundaries of Sections 53, 54, 55, and the eastern boundaries of Sections 56, 57, 133, 137, 135, 136, and thence following the south and eastern boundaries of Hamlin’s Grant K 130; thence along the road on the eastern boundaries of Lots 130c, 130r, 153, 154, and thence along the tramway and following the boundary-line dividing the Waiuku and Mauku Road Districts to the Mauku Creek; thence along its southern shore to its confluence with the Waiuku Estuary; thence along its eastern bank to a point in Taylor’s Creek being the northern corner of Lot 159; and thence along the western boundary of Lot 48 to the point of commencement in Lot 47: all being part of Waiuku East Parish: and that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of July and the 1st day of December in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

J. R. MCELWAIN,
Chairman.

WILLIAM J. KING,
Clerk, Waiuku Road Board.

Waiuku, 12th December, 1904.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

WILLIAM J. KING,
Clerk, Waiuku Road Board.

Waiuku, 12th December, 1904.