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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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license fee, and for every license granted between 1st October
and 31st December in any year shall be one-quarter the annual
license fee: Provided further that no fees shall be payable
by employees of the Council engaged on work for the
Council.

5. The owner of every vehicle licensed under this by-law
   shall cause to be painted or marked in some conspicuous
   place on such vehicle upon the off or right-hand side, in legible
   letters and figures of at least 1in. in length and of pro-
   portionate breadth, the name of such owner, the number of
   the license granted therefor, and, if such vehicle be licensed
   to ply for hire for the carriage of passengers, the number of
   persons which according to the license may be carried by
   such vehicle, at length, in the following form:—
   “Licensed to carry passengers,” or, if such vehicle
   be licensed to ply for the carriage of goods, the words
   “Licensed to carry goods.”

6. In case any vehicle licensed as aforesaid shall not be
   kept and maintained in a condition fit, in the opinion of the
   Council, for public use, or in case the owner of any such
   vehicle shall commit any breach of the terms of this by-law,
   the said Council shall have power, in addition to any other
   penalties to which such person may render himself liable
   under this by-law, to suspend or annul at their discretion the
   license granted to such person in respect of such vehicle.

7. Any person who shall by any act or omission commit
   a breach of this by-law shall be liable, upon conviction, to
   forfeit and pay such sum not exceeding £5 as the convicting
   Justices shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.
By-law No. 2.

No.
OTAMATEA COUNTY.

WHEREAS , of , the owner of a certain vehicle,
to wit, a , having wheels, and having carrying-
capacity for , did on the day of , 190 ,
apply to the Council of Otamatea County to license the said
vehicle to ply for hire for the carriage of within the
county until the 31st day of December, 190 : And whereas
the said has paid the sum of , being the sum
payable to the county in respect of this license: Now, these
presents witness that the said Council doth hereby license the
said vehicle to ply for hire for the carriage of within
the county until the 31st day of December, 190 .

As witness my hand, this day of , 190 , County Clerk.

The common seal of the body corporate of the Chairman,
Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Otamatea
was affixed to the foregoing by-laws, this 13th day of April,
1908, in the presence of—

W. HEATHCOTE JACKMAN,
Chairman.

J. COATES,
W. O. THOMPSON,
Councillors.

H. O. HEMPHILL,
County Clerk.

(l.s.)

OTAMATEA COUNTY.

BY-LAWS.

In pursuance of the powers vested in it by “The Counties
Act, 1886,” “The Counties Vehicle Licensing Act, 1893,”
and “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and the amendments
thereof, and every other power enabling it, however con-
ferred, the County Council of the Otamatea County doth
hereby by a special order made by a resolution of the Coun-
cil passed at a special meeting thereof convened for that
purpose on the 9th day of March, 1908, publicly notified
in the Auckland Weekly News on the 19th and 26th March,
and the 2nd and 9th April, 1908, and confirmed on the 13th
day of April, 1908, and sealed with the seal of the body cor-
porate called “The Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants
of the Otamatea County,” make the following by-laws for the
said county, to come into force on the 1st day of November,
1908:—

BY-LAWS TO PROVIDE FOR THE LICENSING OF PEDLARS AND
HAWKERS WITHIN THE COUNTY.

By-laws No. 3.

1. For the purposes of this by-law the term “pedlar” shall
   be taken to mean and include every pedlar, petty chapman,
   tinker, caster of metals, mender of chairs, and every person
   who without any horse or beast bearing or drawing a burden
   travels from place to place or to other men’s houses carrying
   to sell, exposing or offering for sale, any goods, wares, or
   merchandise; and the term “hawker” shall be taken to
   mean and include every pedlar, petty chapman, tinker, caster
   of metals, mender of chairs, and every person who with
   horse or other beast bearing or drawing burden travels and

trades from place to place or to other men’s houses carrying
to sell, or exposing or offering for sale, any goods, wares, or
merchandise, either in any public thoroughfare or at private
houses, or carrying and exposing any samples or patterns of
any goods, wares, or merchandise afterwards to be delivered,
or procuring orders for goods, wares, or merchandise imme-
diately to be delivered, or selling or offering for sale his skill
in handicraft: Provided always that nothing in this by-law
contained shall render it necessary for a license to be ob-
tained by the following persons as such, that is to say:—
(1.) Commercial travellers, or other persons selling or
seeking orders for goods, wares, or merchandise,
to or from persons who are dealers therein, or sell-
ing or seeking orders for books as agents autho-
rised in writing by the publishers of such books.
(2.) Fishermen or persons employed by them hawking or
selling fish.
(3.) Butchers selling meat or offering the same for sale,
bakers selling bread or offering the same for sale,
or milkmen selling milk or offering the same for
sale in the ordinary course of their trades.

2. No person shall trade or act as a pedlar or hawker in
   the Otamatea County without being licensed by the said
   Council so to do as hereinafter provided.

3. Every person who shall desire to obtain a license under
   this by-law shall make application in writing to the said
   Council, and shall state his full name and usual place of
   abode, and the nature of the license sought to be obtained.
   The said Council may thereupon grant a license in the form
   in the Schedule hereto to such person to trade or carry on
   business as a pedlar or hawker, such license to continue in
   force until the 31st day of December next following after the
   date thereof, and may require such person to give such secu-
   rity for good behaviour during the currency of the license
   and to adduce such evidence of fitness and good character as
   the said Council shall think fit.

4. There shall be paid to the said Council for every such
   license as aforesaid the sum of £1: Provided that the fee
   for any license granted as aforesaid between the 1st day of
   April and the 30th day of June in any year shall be three-
   quarters the annual license fee, for every license granted
   between the 1st day of July and 30th day of September in
   any year shall be one-half the annual license fee, and for
   every license granted between 1st day of October and 31st
   day of December in any year shall be one-quarter the
   annual license fee.

5. Every pedlar or hawker having obtained such license
   as aforesaid shall at any time on demand thereof being made
   to him by any Justice of the Peace, or constable, or officer
   of the County Council, or by any person to whom he shall
   within twenty-four hours previously have sold or offered to
   sell any goods, produce and show to such Justice of the
   Peace, or constable, or officer, or other person, his said
   license.

6. No licensed person shall lend, let out, hire, or give his
   license to any person for the purpose of enabling such person
   to trade or act as a licensed pedlar or hawker.

7. If any person licensed as aforesaid shall be convicted of
   any felony or misdemeanour, or of any offence against the
   provisions of this by-law, or of any offence punishable on
   summary conviction, or for any other good or sufficient
   cause, the Council may cancel the license issued or granted
   to such person, and thereupon such license and all the rights
   of the license thereunder shall absolutely cease and deter-
   mine.

8. Any person who shall by any act or omission commit a
   breach of this by-law shall be liable, upon conviction, to for-
   feit and pay such sum not exceeding £5 as the convicting
   Justices shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.
By-law No. 3.

PEDLAR’S OR HAWKER’S LICENSE.

WHEREAS the application of , of , for a
pedlar’s [hawker’s] license has been duly granted: And
whereas the said has paid the sum of as the
fee for the same: Now, he, the said , is hereby
licensed to trade and act as and to carry on the business of a
pedlar [or hawker] within the Otamatea County until the
31st day of December next.

Dated at, &c.

, County Clerk.

The common seal of the body corporate of the Chairman,
Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Otamatea was
affixed to the foregoing by-laws this, 13th day of April, 1908,
in the presence of—

W. HEATHCOTE JACKMAN,
Chairman.

J. COATES,
W. O. THOMPSON,
Councillors.

H. O. HEMPHILL,
County Clerk.

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