✨ Public Works & Railway By-Laws
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35
TE AROHA BOROUGH.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Te Aroha Borough Council propose to take, under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for their installation of electric light and supply in the Borough of Te Aroha—(a) to provide power, (1) the water of the north branch of the Tunakohoia Stream, in Section 117, Block IX., Aroha Survey District, the same to be returned to the said stream in Section 30A of the said block, and (2) the water of the upper portion of the Omahu Stream, in Section 117 aforesaid, the same to be delivered into the Tunakohoia Stream; and (b) for a pipe-track and access thereto, and reservoir and power-house, (1) all those pieces of land in Section 117 aforesaid, containing respectively 1 acre 1 rood 24 poles and 1 acre and 26 poles, and (2) all those pieces of land in Section 30A aforesaid, containing respectively 2 roods 9 poles, 2 acres 1 rood 9 poles, 16 poles, and 30 poles: all as delineated and coloured pink on a plan, No. 13236, deposited in the office of the Te Aroha Borough Council, in Whitaker Street, Te Aroha, where it is hereby notified the said plan is open to inspection by all persons at all reasonable hours. And notice is hereby further given that all persons affected are required to set forth in writing any well-grounded objection which they may have to the execution of the said works, or to the taking of the said waters and land, and to send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice, being the day of the date hereof, to the Te Aroha Borough Council, at their office aforesaid.
Dated at Te Aroha, the 8th day of April, 1905.
F. W. WILD,
Town Clerk.
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THE CASTLECLIFF RAILWAY COMPANY (LIMITED).
BY-LAWS of the Castlecliff Railway Company (Limited), made in Pursuance of the Powers and Provisions contained in “The District Railways Act, 1877,” and in Pursuance of all and every the other Powers and Provisions contained or implied in any Statute enabling the Company in that Behalf.
IN pursuance of the aforesaid powers and provisions the Castlecliff Railway Company (Limited) hereby ordains as follows:—
PART I.
Interpretation.
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These by-laws shall come into force on the 5th day of April, 1905.
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Words importing the singular number include the plural number, and words importing the plural number include the singular number, and words importing the masculine gender include females.
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In these by-laws, if not inconsistent with the context,—
“ The company ” means the Castlecliff Railway Company (Limited) :
• “ Cattle ” means and includes any horse, mare, gelding, rig, colt, filly, ass, mule, bull, cow, ox, heifer, steer, calf, sheep, ram, ewe, wether, lamb, goat, kid, and pig of any kind :
“ Dangerous goods ” means and includes benzoline and all other dangerous oils, bisulphide of carbon, blasting-powders, bleaching-liquids, bromide, cartridges, chloride of sulphur, dynamite, fireworks, fluoric acid, fog-signals, fuses, gasoline, gazogen, gun-cotton, gunpowder, lucifer matches, muriatic acids or spirits of salts, naphtha, naphthaline, nitrate of iron, nitric acid, oil of vitriol or sulphuric acid, oily canvas or oily paper for packing, oily rags or oily waste, perchloride of iron, petroleum, phosphorus, pudrolithe, pyrolithe, or other materials or compounds liable to sudden ignition or explosion :
“ The manager ” means the manager of the Castlecliff Railway Company (Limited), or the person for the time being acting as such manager :
“ Notified ” means advertised in at least one issue of any daily newspaper published in Wanganui.
PART II.
Passengers and Passengers’ Luggage.
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No person (other than a person entering a train at a flag station as denoted in the time-table of the company for the time being in force) shall be entitled to travel in a train unless furnished by the company with a ticket specifying the class of carriage and the stations for travelling between which such ticket is issued.
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Every person claiming to be a passenger shall, whenever required to do so for any purpose whatsoever, show and deliver his ticket to any servant for the time being engaged upon or in connection with the train in which such person is travelling.
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Every person entering a train at a flag station shall, on demand by any servant as aforesaid, pay the fare from such flag station to the station to which such person travels.
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Every passenger shall leave the train at the station to which his ticket entitles him to travel. Any passenger who shall desire to travel or who shall travel beyond such station shall, on demand by any servant as aforesaid, pay to such servant the proper fare for the extra distance which he shall so travel.
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No passenger shall use or attempt to use a ticket on any day for which it is not available, or a ticket which has already been used on a journey.
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No passenger shall wilfully alter or deface his ticket so as to render the date, number, or other material part thereof illegible.
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Tickets are the property of the company, and are in no case transferable. No person to whom a ticket has been issued shall do any act by which any other person shall be enabled to travel or attempt to travel therewith. No person other than the person to whom the same was issued shall travel or attempt to travel therewith.
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No person shall be entitled to enter, or, having entered, shall, without the leave of a servant as aforesaid, be entitled to remain in, any carriage which at the time of such entry shall contain the full number of persons it is constructed to carry. Any person who shall have entered a carriage under such circumstances shall leave it immediately upon being requested to do so by any such servant. A statement by such servant that such carriage is full, or to that effect, shall be conclusive evidence that such carriage contains the full number of persons it is constructed to carry.
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Except by express permission of some servant as aforesaid no male person above or apparently above the age of eight years shall travel or attempt to travel or remain in any compartment of a carriage marked or otherwise indicated as being reserved or appropriated for the exclusive use of female persons. Any such male person who shall have entered any such carriage shall leave it immediately upon being requested to do so by any such servant. A statement by such servant that such carriage is so reserved or appropriated shall be conclusive evidence that such carriage is so reserved or appropriated.
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Except by special permission of the company a person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease or disorder shall not enter or remain or be in or upon the company’s premises, or travel or attempt to travel on the company’s railway; and the company may refuse to receive or carry any such person or to permit any such person to enter, remain, or be in or upon any part of the company’s premises, or to travel on the railway. Any person infringing this by-law shall, in addition to any other penalty, be liable to the company for the cost of disinfecting the company’s premises and any carriage in which such person shall have been. Any person who has charge of any person so offending or who aids or assists any such person in so offending shall be deemed to infringe and offend against this by-law.
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Every passenger shall be entitled to have carried free of charge in the train in which he travels ordinary personal luggage to a weight not exceeding 112 lb. On any excess above that weight such passenger shall pay to the company freight according to the scale set forth in the schedule of rates for the time being in force. Every passenger shall, on being requested by any servant as aforesaid so to do, allow his luggage to be weighed by or under the direction of such servant at any reasonable time.
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All luggage taken by a passenger or placed at his request in the carriage in which he travels shall be deemed to be under such passenger’s own personal control and at his own exclusive risk during transit, and the company shall be under no liability in respect thereof. The passenger to whom such luggage belongs, or who shall have control thereof as aforesaid, shall immediately after the arrival of the train at the station at which he leaves it remove from the train all such luggage. Any such luggage left by him in the train shall remain at his sole risk until removed as hereinafter provided.
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No servant of the company shall have, or be deemed or assumed to have, any authority to undertake any charge or responsibility in respect of luggage brought to or left upon any station.
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Luggage not claimed and removed within twenty minutes after the arrival of the train at the terminus to which it is travelling will be taken to the luggage-room of the company for safe custody. The company shall be entitled to charge 6d. for each and every package, whether large or small, so taken to the luggage-room; and in addition 1d. for every day or fraction of a day after the day it is so taken to such luggage-room, during which it shall remain in the company’s custody. Before such luggage shall be delivered to any person claiming the same he shall pay all such charges to the company, and in all other respects conform with these by-laws.
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