1294
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

Prince of Wales’s Birthday: Holiday to be observed on 4th June.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1906.

THE Government offices throughout the colony will be closed on Monday, the 4th June next, for the celebration of the anniversary of the birthday of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as the 3rd June this year falls on Sunday.

ALBERT PITT,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Special Order passed by the Oakura Road Board, County of Taranaki, making By-law.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th May, 1906.

THE following special order, made by the Oakura Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

ALBERT PITT,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

OAKURA ROAD BOARD.
Special Order making By-law.

THE Oakura Road Board hereby makes, by way of special order, the following by-law, under “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and its amendments, and “The Public Works Compilation Act, 1905,” which by-law shall come in force on the twenty-first day after publication in the New Zealand Gazette :—

BY-LAW REGULATING HEAVY TRAFFIC AND THE LICENSING OF VEHICLES.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in it by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and the amendments thereof respectively, and of every other power and authority it in this behalf enabling, the Oakura Road Board doth hereby ordain and make the following by-laws :—

1. No person shall use any metalled or gravelled road under the care, control, or management of the Oakura Road Board (hereinafter termed “the Board”) by the traction thereon of any vehicle, engine, machine, or thing for the purpose of “heavy traffic” within the meaning assigned to those words by section 139 of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” during any part of the months of May, June, July, August, and September in any year.

2. No person shall use any such road by the traction thereon of any vehicle, engine, machine, or thing for the purpose of heavy traffic as aforesaid during the months of October, November, December, January, February, March, and April in any year, unless such vehicle, engine, machine, or thing shall be licensed for the period during which such vehicle, engine, machine, or thing shall be so used, in manner hereinafter appearing.

3. The monthly fee payable in respect of every vehicle, engine, machine, or thing engaged in “heavy traffic,” having four wheels or more, shall be £2 for each month during which “heavy traffic” is not prohibited in Oakura Road District; and in respect to every two-wheeled vehicle, engine, machine, or thing engaged in “heavy traffic” shall be £1 for each month during which “heavy traffic” is not prohibited in Oakura District; and upon payment of the proper fee, and upon application to him by the owner of any vehicle, engine, machine, or thing for that purpose, the Clerk of the Board shall issue to such owner a license, and also a docket with a mark thereon designating the date of issue, and such license shall continue and be in force for one month from the date of issue; but nothing in this clause contained shall prevent the Board from accepting, or agreeing to accept, in lieu of the above monthly license fee, a royalty sum upon each ton of material, produce, merchandise, or goods carried in vehicles, engines, machines, or things used for “heavy traffic” over district roads in the Oakura Road District.

4. The owner shall affix such docket to the near side of such vehicle, engine, machine, or thing, and keep the same affixed during the months in which heavy traffic as aforesaid is allowed on the said roads.

5. If any duly licensed vehicle, engine, machine, or thing become destroyed, or become unfit for use, the owner may, with the previous consent in writing of the said Clerk, detach such docket and affix it to another vehicle, engine, machine, or thing of the like description, which shall thereafter be deemed the licensed vehicle for the remainder of the period of the said license.

6. No person shall deface or tamper with any docket, or, except as aforesaid, remove the same during the months in which heavy traffic as aforesaid is allowed of the period in which it shall have been issued.

7. Each of the vehicles, engines, machines, or things enumerated in the first column of the First Schedule hereto having the number of wheels respectively enumerated in the second column of the said Schedule, and licensed to carry or carrying respectively the weight mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule, shall have tires on each wheel of a width not less than that mentioned in the fourth column of the said Schedule. Any person driving; or permitting to be driven, any vehicle, engine, machine, or thing upon any metalled road under the maintenance and control of the Oakura Road District failing to comply with the requirements of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

8. For the purposes of these by-laws and for the purpose of estimating the weight carried by any vehicle, engine, machine, or thing as in the last preceding by-law mentioned, the measurement, number, or quantity mentioned in the second column of the Second Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be 1 ton weight of the material, produce, merchandise, or goods of the description mentioned in the first column of such Second Schedule.

9. Any person authorised by the Board may, for the purpose of ascertaining if the provisions of these by-laws are being complied with, at any time examine and measure the tires of the wheels of any vehicle, engine, machine, or thing within, or which has been used within, the road district; and may for the like purpose and at any time examine any vehicle, engine, machine, or thing, and inspect, measure, and weigh such vehicle, engine, machine, or thing, or the load thereon. Any person refusing to permit or in any way hindering, obstructing, or interfering with such examination or inspection, or refusing to forthwith stop when required by any person authorised by the Board, shall be deemed to have committed a breach of this by-law.

10. For the purpose of these by-laws the word “owner” shall include any person having custody or control of, whether temporarily or otherwise, or having any interest in, any vehicle, engine, machine, or thing, but shall not include mortgagee, unless such mortgagee have the custody or control thereof.

11. The use of bullocks as traction animals is prohibited upon the said roads for the period from the 1st May to 1st November in any year.

12. All previous by-laws are hereby repealed.

13. Any person committing a breach of any of these by-laws shall be deemed guilty of an offence, and shall be liable upon conviction for any such breach to a penalty not exceeding £5.

14. The above by-laws shall come into operation on the twenty-first day after the publication of the notification in the New Zealand Gazette.

FIRST SCHEDULE.