JUNE 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1711

place, nor throw nor leave the same on any private property within 66 ft. of any public place whereby an offensive smell is created.

12. The Council may call upon any person engaged in hauling heavy traffic over any of the roads under the control of the Council to enter into a bond to the Council to insure to the benefit of the Council, with or without surety or sureties, conditioned for duly repairing and making good, to the satisfaction of the Council, any damage resulting from the hauling of such heavy traffic, and such bond shall be in a penalty to be fixed by the Council, not exceeding £200.

By-law No. 3.

1. If any person shall wilfully and without the authority in writing of the Council cut, break, bark, root up, or otherwise damage the whole or any part of any tree, shrub, sapling, or underwood growing in or upon any road, street, or place under the control and management of the Council, although the injury shall not be to the amount of 1s., he shall be guilty of an offence.

2. If any person shall, without the authority of the Council in writing, break, displace, or remove the surface or soil of any land belonging to or under the control or management of the Council he shall be guilty of an offence.

3. Any person suffering or allowing any impure or offensive water or other matter to run or flow from the buildings or premises they occupy on to any road or street, or who shall allow any water-closet, privy, or cesspool to overflow or soak therefrom so as to be offensive, shall be guilty of an offence.

4. Any person leading or riding any horse or other animal, or drawing, wheeling, or driving any cart, carriage, sledge, truck, or barrow, or bicycle, upon or along any footpath, without permission from the Council in writing, shall be guilty of an offence.

5. All pigs, goats, cattle, horses, and sheep found running at large on any road in the county may be impounded in any public pound, or in any enclosure specially appointed for the purpose by the Council and publicly notified. Such enclosure shall, for the purpose of this by-law, be deemed a public pound, and the like fees and damages shall be payable therein as in the case of a public pound.

6. No person shall drive any vehicle (except carts, drays, or wagons) along any street, road, or public place between sunset and sunrise, unless such vehicle carries two proper and sufficient lights in front, so fixed as to be plainly visible to any person approaching such vehicle from a contrary direction.

7. No person shall drive any cart, dray, or wagon along any street, road, or public place between sunset and sunrise, unless such cart, dray, or wagon has a proper and sufficient light attached to or suspended from the off or right side of such cart, dray, or wagon so as to be plainly visible to any person approaching such cart, dray, or wagon from a contrary direction.

8. No person shall ride any bicycle or tricycle on any street or road between sunset and sunrise, unless such bicycle or tricycle carries a proper and sufficient light in front.

9. Any person making a private entrance from any formed road shall comply with the provisions of subsection (4) of section 134 of “The Public Works Act, 1894.”

By-law No. 4.

1. Any person driving a motor-car, or riding a bicycle or tricycle or similar vehicle, upon any road, upon meeting any person riding any horse or driving any vehicle drawn by a horse or horses, or driving stock, and if the person last aforesaid shall be in sight, then, also before approaching within 2 chains of such person, shall take such motor-car, bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle to the side of the road, stop and dismount until the person with the horse or horses shall have passed, provided that the latter person shall hold up his or her hand as a signal to do so.

2. On all side cuttings on any road, any person driving a motor-car, or riding a bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle, shall keep on the outside when meeting or passing any vehicle or horseman, but shall observe the ordinary rules of the road when meeting or passing vehicles or horsemen elsewhere.

3. Every person driving a motor-car, or riding a bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle, upon any road or place within the county, meeting or overtaking any person, either on foot, riding any horse, or driving any vehicle, shall ring his bell or give other warning before approaching within 1 chain of such person.

4. Any horseman, vehicle, motor-car, bicycle, tricycle, or similar vehicle overtaking any stock being driven on any road shall; if so requested by the person in charge of such stock, wait before passing the said stock until the formation of the road will allow him to do so with safety to the stock being driven, and, if requested, shall not pass them at other than a walking-pace.

By-law No. 5.

1. The Council may from time to time by special resolution declare that it shall not be lawful to propel traction-engines over any county road or roads named in such resolution, and after the passing of any such resolution it shall not be lawful to propel traction-engines over any such road or roads.

2. It shall be necessary when any traction-engine is passing along any road for one of the men in charge of or accompanying said engine to proceed and be not less than 100 yards ahead with a danger-flag to warn the riders and drivers of any horses, stock, or vehicles of the proximity of the engine, and the driver of the engine shall stop the same when required by the rider or driver of horses, stock, or vehicles in some suitable point or place for passing. No traction-engine shall be allowed to be propelled on, along, or over any road between sunset and midnight. In cases where any engine shall be travelling between midnight and sunrise, each person in any way employed with such engine so travelling shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws unless there shall be a man at least 100 yards in front of such engine carrying a red light as a signal, and unless such engine shall carry a red light showing in front and behind, or unless where a wagon or carriage, or wagons or carriages, are being drawn by such engine there shall also be carried a red tail-light on the last of such wagons or carriages.

3. The driver of an engine shall give as much space as possible for the passing of other traffic.

4. The speed of an engine shall not exceed five miles an hour along any public road, and three miles an hour through any town or village, and when crossing any bridge or culvert shall be moved at a uniform rate of speed not exceeding two miles an hour.

5. The whistle of a traction-engine shall not be sounded while the engine is upon or passing along or over any public road or bridge; nor shall the cylinder-taps be opened or the steam blown off or allowed to attain a pressure such as to exceed the limit fixed by the safety-valve within sight of any person riding, driving, leading, or in charge of a horse or of stock upon a road; nor shall the person in charge of any engine blow off the steam from any traction-engine, or cause the same to be blown off, on any public road, highway, or bridge.

6. No traction-engine shall come upon or pass along any bridge at any time while any person with a horse or horses, or vehicle drawn by a horse or horses, or with stock, is on or is about to come upon such bridge; nor shall any engine or wagon attached thereto be permitted to stop on any bridge or culvert for the purpose of drawing water from any water-race, river; stream, or ditch passing under or through such bridge or culvert, or for any other purpose whatever except for the safety or convenience of other traffic thereon.

7. Ashes or other refuse discharged from the furnace of a traction-engine upon a public road shall, after all the fire therein has been completely extinguished, be spread out on such road or the sides thereof by the person in charge of such engine in such manner that such road or the sides thereof shall be kept even and the level thereof maintained: Provided always that no such ashes shall be discharged upon any bridge or culvert, or upon any road within 2 chains of any bridge or culvert.

8. It shall not be lawful to carry on any combine or wagon attached to or drawn by a traction-engine any greater weight (over and above the weight of the wagon) than 2 tons, unless the tires thereof are at least 6 in. in width; and no combine, carriage, or wagon drawn by any traction-engine shall carry more than 6 tons weight over and above the weight of the wagon.

9. The person in charge of a traction-engine shall give immediate notice to the County Engineer, County Clerk, or Road Overseer of any damage or injury done by the engine or wagon attached thereto to any road, way, fence, bridge, culvert, watercourse, drain, side ditch, or any other thing appertaining to any such road; and if such damage has rendered the road or its appurtenances dangerous for ordinary traffic or to public safety, the owner or person in charge of such engine shall, in addition to giving such notice as aforesaid, place and maintain, in such position and for such time as the County Engineer, Clerk, or Road Overseer shall direct, such signals as shall be sufficient to give warning to all persons using such road by day or by night of the existence of such danger.

10. Any damage caused by the use of any engine or wagon attached thereto to any bridge, or any walls, rails, buttresses, or supports thereto erected or carried across any river, stream, or water-race, or to any road or its appurtenances, shall be forthwith repaired and made good by or at the expense of the owner or person having charge of such engine.

11. No engine when travelling upon or is being taken over a bridge or culvert, or over metalled parts of a road, no studs or other pieces, or rings of iron or other metal, shall be attached to or raised upon the level of the faces of the tires of