Tramway By-laws, Licenses, Partnership Dissolution




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 49

such person may be prevented from entering in or upon any car, and shall not enter any car after having been requested by the conductor not to do so, and if found in or upon any car shall, on request of the conductor, and on having his fare (if previously paid) returned, leave the car.

  1. No person who has or may be reasonably supposed to have any contagious or infectious disease shall be in or upon any premises of the Board, or shall travel or attempt to travel on any car without the special permission of the Board. Any person who has charge of any person suffering from such disorder while upon the premises of the Board, or while travelling or attempting to travel on any car, or who aids or assists any person suffering from such disorder in being upon the premises of the Board, or in travelling or attempting to travel on a car, shall be deemed to have committed a breach of this by-law.

  2. No person shall take any dog or other animal or loaded firearms into or upon any car, and no person shall take into or upon any car any luggage other than parcels which can be carried in the hand and will not, in the opinion of the conductor, interfere with the comfort of other passengers; but the foregoing provisions shall not prevent the carriage of dogs, parcels, or luggage in any part of compartment of any car set apart for such purposes respectively by the Board or by the conductor. Any dog or other animal taken into or on any car in breach of this by-law shall be removed by the person in charge of such dog or other animal from the car immediately upon a request by the conductor, and in default of compliance with such request may be removed by or under the direction of the conductor.

  3. The Board will not be responsible for any parcel, package, luggage, or goods left in any waiting-room or in or upon any car.

  4. No passenger, not being a bona fide working-man within the meaning of the Christchurch Electric Tramway Order, shall use or attempt to use any ticket intended only for such working-man.

  5. No person shall, without authority, interfere with or alter any part of any tramway vested in the Board, or any feeder line or other work connected with such tramway, or with any mechanical or electrical appliances used in the working thereof, or shall place or throw, or allow to be placed or thrown, any gravel, stones, dirt, refuse, or other obstacle or material whatsoever in or upon any part of the tramway or the works or wheels used in connection therewith, or shall wilfully do or cause to be done anything which shall or might obstruct the free passage of any engine, motor car, or vehicle used on the Board’s tramways, or endanger the lives of persons travelling thereon.

  6. No passenger or other person shall wilfully obstruct or impede any conductor or officer or servant of the Board in the execution of his duty upon or in connection with any car or tramway of the Board.

  7. No person shall prevent a passenger from getting into or out of any car, or obstruct a passenger in such ingress or egress except whilst the car shall be in motion.

  8. No person other than an employee or duly authorised agent of the Board, and acting in the ordinary course of his duty as such employee or agent, shall sell or offer for sale any discount coupon or any ticket purporting to entitle the purchaser thereof to travel upon any tramway vested in the Board.

  9. No person other than the original purchaser of a discount coupon shall use or tender in payment of a fare any discount coupon which shall on the face of it bear the words “Not transferable.”

  10. No person shall give or offer any gratuity to any conductor or other employee of the Board.

  11. No person, other than a passenger travelling on a car, shall enter, pass, or repass upon, through, over, or across the Estuary Embankment, or any bridge, viaduct, or other premises vested in or belonging to or occupied by the Board, and upon which a notification of “No Thoroughfare” shall have been posted up by the Board.

  12. The Board may require the owner or the occupier of any land abutting on any feeder line or any line of tramway within the district to remove, lower, or trim to the satisfaction of the Board any tree or shrub overhanging any feeder line, or any tramway, or any of the cables, poles, brackets, or any electrical appliances or appurtenances of any tramway, where in the opinion of the Board such removal, lowering, or trimming is necessary in order to prevent injury to or interference with the traffic or any part of the electrical equipment of the tramway. Any owner or occupier of any such land who shall fail to comply with any requirement of the Board shall be deemed to have committed a breach of this by-law.

  13. No driver or other person in charge of a traction-engine shall wilfully drive, propel, or draw the same or any truck coupled thereto along the rails or either of the rails of any tramway unless and only whilst compelled thereto by the exigencies of the general traffic of the street or road in or along which such tramway may run.

  14. No person shall use any car or permit the same to be used for the carriage of passengers within the district upon any tramway not being operated by the Board, unless or until the same shall be licensed by the Board, and unless the same shall in all respects comply with the requirements of this by-law.

  15. Every license shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto, and shall be in force from the date thereof until the 31st day of December next ensuing.

  16. All licenses issued in pursuance hereof shall be signed by the Secretary for the time being of the Board, and distinguished by a number.

  17. No license shall be issued or renewed in respect of any car unless it is constructed, repaired, ventilated, lighted, and maintained to the satisfaction of the Board or of the Engineer for the time being of the Board.

  18. The following license fee shall be paid and payable under this by-law: For license in respect of each car, an annual fee of ten shillings.

  19. No car belonging to any tramway not being operated by the Board shall stand, or be driven, propelled, or drawn, or ply for hire, or carry passengers, or be used, on any tramway within the district after sunset or before sunrise without having lamps approved of by the Board, both on the inside and outside of the car, and such lamps shall be kept burning brightly during all such time as such car shall be so used.

  20. No driver, guard, or conductor of any engine or car shall cause any obstruction in any street, other than such obstruction as shall be legal and necessary for running along any tramway laid along any such street, or stop or delay when en route longer than may be necessary for or occasioned by taking up or setting down any passenger or goods.

  21. Any person committing a breach of any provision of this by-law shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, or, where the breach is a continuing one, then to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings for every day during which such offence continues.


CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAYS DISTRICT.

A Requisition for a Tramway Carriage License.

To the Chairman and members of the Christchurch Tramway Board.

I,
, residing in
, do hereby request that a license may be granted me to keep, use, employ, and let a tramway carriage to ply for hire within the said district.

Dated the
day of
, 190
.

Description of carriage—
Build :
Colour :
Linings and trimmings :

License authorised by the Christchurch Tramway Board:
the
day of
, 190
.

License No.
.

, Secretary.


CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAYS DISTRICT.

Tramway Carriage License.

No.
. To carry
passengers.

Christchurch Tramways District, to wit:

WHEREAS
, of
, has made a requisition for the license for a tramway carriage to ply for hire within the Christchurch Tramways District, pursuant to the provisions of “Tramway By-law, 1905”: And whereas the issue of the said license has been duly authorised by the said Board: Now, therefore, I, the Secretary of the said Board, in the name and on behalf of the said Board, do hereby license the said carriage, of which the said
is the owner, and which is numbered
, as a tramway carriage to ply for hire and to carry
passengers within the said district, under and subject to the provisions of the said by-law, and such other orders, rules, regulations, and by-laws as may from time to time be in force, until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and
, and no longer.

Given under my hand, at the office of the Christchurch Tramway Board, this
day of
, 190
.

, Secretary.


By order.

FRANK THOMPSON,
Secretary.

Christchurch, 19th May, 1905.
559

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto subsisting between the undersigned, WILLIAM HART and CHARLES HORNS, under deed of partnership dated the



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🚂 Christchurch Tramway Board By-law 1905 (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
Tramway by-law, Christchurch, Passenger conduct, Animals on trams, Luggage restrictions, Contagious disease, Fare evasion, Obstruction of tramways, License requirements, Penalties

🚂 Requisition for Tramway Carriage License

🚂 Transport & Communications
Tramway license, Requisition form, Carriage description, Christchurch Tramway Board

🚂 Tramway Carriage License

🚂 Transport & Communications
Tramway license, Passenger capacity, Carriage owner, Christchurch Tramways District, Expiry date
  • Frank Thompson, Secretary

🏭 Dissolution of Partnership between William Hart and Charles Horns

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
19 May 1905
Partnership dissolution, William Hart, Charles Horns, Business notice, Christchurch
  • William Hart, Dissolution of partnership
  • Charles Horns, Dissolution of partnership

  • Frank Thompson, Secretary