3186
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 103

“Owner” of a vehicle includes a bailee thereof entitled to the possession and use thereof:
“Person” includes a body of persons, whether incorporate or unincorporate:
“Private street” means any roadway laid out within the town on private property by the owner thereof, but intended for the use of the public generally, and includes every such roadway as aforesaid that immediately before the coming into operation of “The Rotorua Town Act, 1907,” was a private street of the town or of any part thereof:
“Public place” includes every road, street, private street, footpath, footway, court, alley, and thoroughfare of a public nature, or open to or used by the public as of right:
“Resident Officer” means the officer of the Department resident at Rotorua appointed for the time being to carry out the provisions of “The Rotorua Town Act, 1907,” under the direction of the General Manager:
The said expression “Resident Officer,” moreover, includes any officer appointed by the Minister for the time being in charge of the Department to assist the Resident Officer, or to be a deputy officer in respect of any of the duties or powers exercisable by the Resident Officer, or to act for the Resident Officer temporarily:
“Street” or “public street” means and includes the whole of any land lying within the town which,—
(1.) Immediately before the date of the coming into operation of “The Rotorua Town Act, 1907,” was a public highway under the control, as such, of the Rotorua Town Council or of any other local authority of any description; or
(2.) Is laid out by the Department as a public highway after such date; or
(3.) For twenty years next before such date has actually, and whether legally or not, been maintained and controlled as a public highway by any local authority or local authorities of any description whatever and used by the public:
The said expressions “street” or “public street” and “private street” include every public square or public place, and every bridge, culvert, drain, channel, footway or footpath, ferry, ford, gate, building, or other thing belonging thereto, or lying upon the line, or within the limits thereof:
“Town” means the Town of Rotorua, as described in the Schedule to “The Rotorua Town Act, 1907”:
“Vehicle” includes motor-car:
“Writing,” “written” or any term of like import includes words printed, typewritten, painted, engraved, lithographed, or otherwise traced or copied; and, where anything is in these by-laws required to be written, it may be partly in writing and partly in print and typewriting or either, or it may be partly in print and partly in typewriting.

Words importing the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa, and words importing the masculine gender shall include females.

The notes at the commencement of the several clauses of these by-laws purporting to indicate the effect thereof respectively are intended merely to assist reference thereto respectively, and are to be deemed not to form any part of these by-laws, and are not to affect the construction thereof.

PART I.—TRAFFIC.

1. Rule of the Road.—Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, shall, when meeting any vehicle or animal, keep on the left, or near, side of the road or street, or when passing any vehicle or animal going in the same direction shall pass, when practicable, on the right, or off, side of such vehicle or animal, and such person shall, when practicable, allow any person driving a vehicle or riding an animal in the same direction to pass him on the right, or off, side.

2. Pace round Corners and over Bridges.—No person shall ride or drive any horse or other animal, either with or without a vehicle, or ride any bicycle or tricycle, or drive any motor-car, round an angle or corner of any public or private street, or public place, or over any bridge, at a speed exceeding five miles per hour.

3. Charge of Two Vehicles.—No person shall act as driver, or have the sole charge of more than one vehicle on any public or private street, or public place, save where two vehicles, and no more, shall be drawn each by one horse only, but in that case the horse of the hinder of such vehicles shall be attached by a sufficient rein to the back of the foremost of such vehicles.

4. Lights.—No person shall drive any carriage, cart, coach, buggy, or other vehicle, or ride any bicycle or tricycle, through or along any public or private street, or public place, between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise, unless such carriage, coach, cart, buggy, or vehicle shall be provided with proper and effective side lights, and unless such bicycle or tricycle shall be provided with a proper and effective front light, and unless the lamps or other means of producing the light shall in each case be kept lit.

5. Bells on Bicycles.—The rider of any bicycle or tricycle shall carry an alarm bell or horn, and shall ring such bell or sound such horn when meeting or approaching any vehicle, or person on horseback, or person on foot.

6. Leaving Vehicles on Streets.—No person shall leave upon any public or private street, or public place, any plough, harrow, cart, or other vehicle, without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, unless in consequence of some accident having occurred.

7. Projections from Vehicles.—(1.) No person shall have any iron, timber, or boards laid across any vehicle going along any public or private street, or public place, so that either end shall project more than 2 ft. beyond the wheels of such vehicle.
   Flapping Awnings.—(2.) No person shall drive or permit to stand in any public or private street or public place any vehicle with the curtain, covering, or awnings thereof unfastened and liable to be flapped about by the wind so as to frighten or be calculated to frighten horses.

8. Furious Driving.—No person shall furiously or negligently ride or drive on any public or private street or public place.

9. Vehicles, &c., on Footpath.—No person shall lead, ride, or drive any horse or other animal, or draw, wheel, or drive any cart, carriage, sledge, truck, barrow, bicycle, tricycle, or other thing (except a perambulator) along any footpath.

10. Reins, &c.—No carter shall ride on any cart, dray, or wagon in any public or private street or public place without having and holding proper and sufficient reins, unless a competent person has charge of the animal or animals drawing the same.

11. Driving Loose Animals.—(1.) No person shall drive, assist to drive, or cause to be driven into, along, or upon any public or private street or public place any loose horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, or other animals unless with the sanction of the Resident Officer signified by a permit under his hand first obtained: Provided that nothing herein contained shall apply to the stock-roads hereinafter mentioned nor to any other street to be hereafter declared a stock-road by order in writing signed by the General Manager and advertised in some newspaper circulating in the town, nor shall anything herein contained apply to the driving of milch-cows. The said stock-roads are the following:—
    (a.) Maketu Road from Puarenga Stream to Fenton Street;
    (b.) Fenton Street from junction with Maketu Road to Old Tauranga—Taupo Road; and
    (c.) Old Tauranga—Taupo Road from Hemo Gorge to Utuhina Stream.
    (2.) No person shall unlawfully obstruct or prevent the driving of any such animals as aforesaid.

12. Carrying Materials on Footpaths.—No person shall carry along any footpath any implements, tools, or materials projecting in such a manner as to be a public obstruction.

13. Obstruction of Streets.—(1.) No person shall stand or loiter upon any footway, street, private street, bridge, or public place so as to obstruct the passenger traffic thereon, nor sit or remain or be upon any building, scaffolding, fence, or other structure, or any part thereof, abutting or facing any footway, street, private street, bridge, or public place, so as to obstruct the passenger traffic on any such footway, street, private street, bridge, or public place.
    (2.) No person shall in any manner whatever wilfully or negligently encumber or obstruct a public or private street or public place.

14. Protection of Kerbs and Channels.—No person shall drive or stand any vehicle of any description on any concrete or other water-channel.

PART II.—WIDTH OF TIRES.

1. Minimum Widths.—All vehicles, whether plying for hire or not, shall have tires of the following minimum widths:—
   For vehicles carried on springs,—
   To carry up to 5 cwt. . . . . . 1¼ in.
   ,, ,, 10 cwt. . . . . . 1½ in.
   ,, ,, 1 ton . . . . . . 2 in.
   ,, ,, 1½ tons.. . . . . 2½ in.
   ,, ,, 2 tons . . . . . . 3 in.
   ,, over 2 tons . . . . . 4¾ in.