engine, vehicle, or machine working upon such railway or siding, shall obstruct or place any impediment in the way of shunting, moving, or working any engines, vehicles, or machines upon such railway or siding.

(2.) The owner or agent or other person having charge of each shoot, gangway, crane, or other appliance used for or in connection with such receipt or delivery of goods or passengers shall place a person in control of the same, whose duty it shall be to prevent such gangway, shoot, crane, or other appliance from obstructing or impeding the shunting, moving, or working aforesaid.

42. (1.) No person shall take or attempt to take any horse or other large animal, or any vehicle (cycles excepted), on to any platform at which passenger-trains arrive or from which such trains depart, unless for the purpose of loading or unloading such animal or vehicle into or from a railway-wagon.

(2.) No person shall ride or attempt to ride any animal or cycle on to or upon any such platform for any purpose whatsoever.

VEHICLES PLYING FOR HIRE AT RAILWAY-STATIONS.

43. (1.) It shall not be lawful for any person to ply for hire with any vehicle within the precincts of any railway unless such vehicle is licensed, and such person also holds a license as a driver, as hereinafter provided.

(2.) The issue of such licenses shall be in the discretion of the issuing officer, being in the case of each railway-station the Manager or such other officer as the General Manager appoints for that purpose.

(3.) Every such license shall be in such form as the issuing officer thinks fit, shall be signed by him, and shall remain in force for one year from the date of issue, unless sooner cancelled as hereinafter provided.

(4.) On the application of the holder of a license the issuing officer may, in his discretion, transfer the same to another person as holder.

(5.) The annual license fee payable in respect of every license shall be 10s. per annum, and shall be payable on the issue of the license.

(6.) Every license shall be held subject to the following conditions:

(a.) The holder thereof, when within the precincts of the railway, must obey the orders of the Railway Stationmaster, must place his vehicle where directed by the Stationmaster or other authorised railway officer, and must not go upon any railway-platform for the purpose of removing any passenger or luggage unless engaged by a passenger for that purpose.

(b.) The holder thereof must not solicit business on any railway-platform except on the portion set aside by the Stationmaster for that purpose.

(c.) The holder thereof must remain outside the railway premises when so directed by the Stationmaster or other authorised railway officer.

(7.) Any driver's license, and any license issued in respect of a vehicle, may be cancelled by an issuing officer if the holder thereof is found guilty of misconduct, or commits any breach of these by-laws.

ADMISSION TO RAILWAY-PLATFORMS.

44. (1.) Except in the case of persons in the employment of the Railway Department, and except also in the case of persons having the special permission of the Stationmaster, it shall not be lawful for any person (other than a person arriving at or leaving the station by train) to be upon any railway-platform of the station during the period following, that is to say,

(a.) In the case of a train arriving, during the period elapsing between fifteen minutes before the time of its arrival and fifteen minutes after its arrival; and

(b.) In the case of a train departing, during the period elapsing between fifteen minutes before the time of its departure and fifteen minutes after its departure,

unless he is the holder of an admission ticket, for which a fee of 2d. has been paid.

(2.) The Stationmaster may, in his discretion, limit the number of admission tickets to be issued.

(3.) This by-law shall apply only to such railway-platforms and at such times as are specified in any notice in that behalf purporting to be issued under the authority of the Minister, and publicly exhibited at the railway-station at which the by-law is to have effect.

(4.) Such notices may from time to time be issued and exhibited as aforesaid at such railway-stations and at such times as the Minister thinks fit.