Nov. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3301

4. The Road Board may, if it thinks fit, from time to time license vehicles to ply for hire for the carriage of passengers within the district.

5. Any person desirous of obtaining a license for a vehicle intended to ply for hire for the carriage of passengers shall make application to the Road Board in the following form:—

I, , of , being the owner of a , hereby make application for a license for such to ply for hire for the carriage of passengers within the Remuera Road District for the year ending the day of , 190 . Such has sitting accommodation for passengers, computed according to the requirements of the by-laws of the Remuera Road Board.

Dated this day of , 190 .

Full Name of Applicant : .

Place of Abode : .

6. Every license issued by the Road Board authorising any vehicle to ply for hire for the carriage of passengers in the district shall specify the name, surname, and place of abode of every owner of such vehicle, and shall be signed by the Clerk.

7. Every license shall remain in force until the 31st day of December next after the date of its issue.

8. Every license shall be numbered so that two or more licenses shall not bear the same number.

9. The license of every vehicle proposed to be employed in plying for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall specify the number of passengers that may be carried in such vehicle, such number to be computed in accordance with the provisions of clause 17 hereof.

10. Every owner of a licensed vehicle plying for hire for the carriage of passengers within the district shall cause a number corresponding with the number of his license, followed by the letter “R,” to be painted and marked on some conspicuous place on the right-hand side of the outside of such vehicle so as always to be plainly seen, and in figures and a letter not less than 5 in. in height, and of proportionate width and breadth of stroke, and shall also cause the same number, followed by the letter “R,” in figures and a letter not less than 3 in. in height, and of proportionate width and breadth of stroke, to be painted and marked on some conspicuous position on the inside of such vehicle, and shall further cause such numbers and letters to be clearly and legibly maintained while such vehicle shall be plying for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers.

11. There shall be paid to the Road Board for the licensing of vehicles the following sums, that is to say,—

(a.) For every omnibus, one pound per annum;

(b.) For every other vehicle to be employed in the district in plying for hire for the carriage of passengers, ten shillings per annum.

Such sums when received shall be paid to the Road Board Fund.

12. When, having regard to the provisions of clause 7 of this by-law and to the date of the issue by the Road Board of a license for a vehicle, it will not remain in force for one year from such date, the respective sums payable by clause 11 of this by-law shall in such a case be reduced to such a proportionate part of the said respective sums as the unexpired portion of the year bears to the whole year.

13. The driver of any vehicle plying for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall upon demand produce and show any person authorised in that behalf by the Road Board the license authorising such vehicle so to ply for hire.

14. A driver or conductor of a vehicle plying for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall not at any time when such vehicle is plying for hire within the district cause or suffer the number and letter referred to in clause 10 of this by-law, or any portion of such number or letter, to be concealed from public view or from the view of any passenger.

15. A driver of an omnibus plying for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall at all times when such omnibus is plying for hire cause every lamp provided in pursuance of clause 18 of this by-law for denoting the direction in which such omnibus is proceeding to be kept properly trimmed and ready for lighting.

16. A conductor of an omnibus plying for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall at all times when such omnibus is so plying for hire cause every lamp provided in pursuance of clause 18 of this by-law for promoting the convenience of passengers carried by such omnibus to be kept properly trimmed and ready for lighting.

17. (1.) A proprietor, driver, or conductor of any vehicle licensed to ply for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall not cause or suffer a greater number of passengers to be carried in any such vehicle at any one time than will admit of the provision for each passenger of sitting accommodation to the extent of at least 16 in. from side to side and 15 in. from back to front, and also of adequate accommodation to enable every passenger to sit with ease.

(2.) No proprietor, driver, or conductor of any vehicle licensed to ply for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall cause, suffer, or permit to be carried in and upon such vehicle at any one time a greater number of passengers than may be specified in the license for such vehicle.

(3.) Every owner of a vehicle licensed to ply for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall cause to be legibly painted and marked and maintained on some conspicuous place on the inside of such vehicle, and so as always to be plainly seen, a statement in the form following, that is to say—“Licensed by Remuera Road Board to carry persons”—in letters at least 1 in. in length, and of a proportionate breadth, of the number of persons which according to the license may be carried in such vehicle.

(4.) For the purposes of this clause two children under the age of ten years may be regarded as one passenger.

18. Every proprietor of a vehicle plying for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall provide for such vehicle a sufficient lamp for each side of such vehicle, of such construction and so placed as when lighted to show a bright white light in the direction in which such vehicle is proceeding; and in the case of a closed omnibus he shall provide for such omnibus at least one other lamp, of such construction and so placed as when lighted to afford a sufficient amount of light throughout the interior of the omnibus for the reasonable convenience of the passengers carried therein.

19. Every driver of a vehicle plying for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers at all times when such vehicle is plying for hire between sunset and sunrise and the public road-lamps are lighted, or at any time during the prevalence of such a fog as may render such light necessary, shall cause every lamp provided in pursuance of clause 18 of this by-law for denoting the direction in which such vehicle is proceeding to be properly lighted and kept lighted until such vehicle shall cease to ply for hire, or until the cessation of the cause which may have rendered such light necessary.

20. Every conductor or, where there is no conductor, the driver of any omnibus plying for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall at any time when such light may be necessary cause every lamp provided in pursuance of clause 18 of the foregoing by-law for promoting the convenience of passengers carried by such omnibus to be properly lighted and kept lighted until the cessation of the cause which may have rendered such light necessary.

21. Every proprietor of an omnibus plying for hire in the district for the carriage of passengers shall cause the same when plying for hire to be furnished and kept furnished—

(a.) With sound and suitable wheels and springs, and with a sound and suitable pole and shafts; and

(b.) With a sufficient brake or brakes.

22. If any person shall commit a breach of any provision of this by-law he shall be liable to a penalty of an amount which shall be in the discretion of the Court inflicting the same, but which shall in no case exceed ten pounds.

23. This by-law shall come into force on the 1st day of November, 1907.

The above by-law was made by a special order of the Remuera Road Board, and the resolution to make it was passed at a special meeting of the said Board held on the 4th day of September, 1907, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the said Board held on the 21st day of October, 1907.

The common seal of the Inhabitants of the Remuera Road District was affixed hereunto at a meeting and by order of the Remuera Road Board held on the 21st day of October, 1907, in the presence of—

J. S. DICKSON,
Chairman.

C. A. CAWKWELL,
ERNI BOND,
Members.

Wm. J. DINNISON,
Clerk.

I, William John Dinnison, of Remuera, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Dominion of New Zealand, Clerk to the Remuera Road Board, do hereby certify that the foregoing, being by-laws licensing vehicles, &c., were duly passed and adopted by way of special order by special resolution at a special meeting of the Remuera Road Board held on the 4th day of September, 1907, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 21st day of October, 1907, and that the statutory provisions relating to the making of such by-laws were duly complied with, and that the following is a true copy of the resolution passing such special order: That the Remuera Road Board (being a Road Board within the County of Eden wherein “The Counties Act, 1886,” is deemed to be suspended) hereby makes by-laws, in pur-