Feb. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 571

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

Penalties.

5. Any person offending against any of the provisions of this by-law, or any section, subsection, or part of a section thereof, or failing to comply with any condition therein, or guilty of any omission or neglect respecting anything contained therein or in any section, subsection, or part of a section thereof, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, except as herein otherwise provided, for every such offence, whether by act, neglect, or omission, be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5.

PART II.

Offences on Roads and Public Places.

6. Any person shall be guilty of an offence who—
   (1.) Breaks in, or commences to break in, any horse or other animal upon any road or in any public place, or tests or tries any horse or other animal by locking the wheels of any cart or other vehicle, or otherwise howsoever, so as to obstruct or injure any road or public place.
   (2.) Rides, drives, or leads any cattle of any kind, or any cart, dray, carriage, or other vehicle, or wheels any barrow, upon or along any footpath.
   (3.) Furiously or negligently rides or drives any animal, vehicle, or conveyance on any road or public place.
   (4.) Leads, rides, or drives any horse, or drives any carriage or any vehicle of any description, across any footpath crossing faster than at a walking-pace.
   (5.) Being in charge of any bull, stallion, or entire animal, permits it to cover within sight of any public place.
   (6.) Leads, rides, or drives any horse, bullock, or any other animal, or drives or wheels any carriage, cart, or other vehicle, upon, along, or across any footpath or any water-channel or gutter upon any county road except at a crossing.
   (7.) Allows any horses, sheep, pigs, goats, or other cattle belonging to him or under his charge to be at large in any road or public place.
   (8.) Tethers, herds, or otherwise places any horses, sheep, goats, pigs, or other cattle upon any road or public place for the purpose of depasturing or grazing.
   (9.) Rides or drives across any bridge in any road with any horse, or with any cart, wagon, dray, carriage, or other similar vehicle, faster than at a walking-pace.
   (10.) Being the driver of any cart, dray, wagon, carriage, cab, or other similar vehicle, drives the same on any road without having and holding sufficient reins, or, being such driver, is away from the animals harnessed thereto so as to be unable to have full control thereof.
   (11.) Drives any vehicle on any public road having any material or goods laid across or thereon so that any part of such material or goods shall project more than 2 ft. beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle, except in the case of hay, straw, sheaves, chaff, or wool.
   (12.) Leaves upon any public road any carriage, cart, plough, harrow, or other vehicle or implement without any horse or other animal of burthen harnessed thereto, or beats any carpet, or plays any game, upon any road or footpath, or allows any animal to remain across any footpath, or places or leaves upon any road or footpath any machine, article, or goods, or carries upon any road or footpath any implements, tools, or materials projecting in such a manner as to be a public obstruction, or otherwise obstructs any road or footpath.
   (13.) Throws or places any glass, orange-peel, filth, dirt, rubbish, or any other matter of a similar nature upon any road, court, alley, or public place whatsoever.
   (14.) Slaughters, except in the case of immediate necessity, or skins any animal upon any public road, or leaves any dead animal upon such public road.
   (15.) Blasts any rock, stone, or timber on or near any public road or public place without the permission of the Council, or neglects to attend to any directions in regard thereto given by the Council.
   (16.) Places any hoarding, scaffolding, timber, bricks, stone, or other building material upon any road or public place without the permission of the Council.
   (17.) Opens any drain or sewer, or removes the surface of any county road or footpath on the side thereof, without the permission of the Council.
   (18.) Lays out, forms, or opens any road or footpath and omits to take all such precautions for guarding against injury to the passengers along such road as may be reasonable, or as may be directed by the Council or the County Engineer.
   (19.) Leaves any hole, excavation, or dangerous formation in, upon, or near any road or public place without fencing or enclosing the same, or without keeping a light burning at or upon such hole, excavation, or formation between sunset and sunrise.
   (20.) Removes any gravel, soil, or material from any county road without the permission of the Council.
   (21.) Neglects or omits to keep in good repair any rail, fence, gate, or cover over or about any area or entrance to any cellar or other place opening into or upon or near any road or public place, or keeps open for more than a reasonable time for taking in or out any articles any entrance to any such area, cellar, or other place.
   (22.) Takes any engine, agricultural or other machine or implement, or draws or trails any sledge, timber, or other thing or material, upon or across any county road or footpath, bridge, or culvert thereon to the injury of such road, bridge, or culvert.
   (23.) Neglects to clean any private yard, way, or passage by which neglect a nuisance by offensive smell or otherwise is caused.

7. In this section “bicycle” shall include a tricycle or other similar vehicle. The following provisions shall apply to a person riding a bicycle on any road :—
   (a.) Such person shall not travel or ride on any footpath.
   (b.) Such person shall not ride between sunset and sunrise without a proper light.
   (c.) Such person upon overtaking any person riding any horse or driving any vehicle drawn by a horse or horses shall, within a reasonable distance from and before passing such person so riding or driving, by sounding a bell or whistle, or otherwise, give audible and sufficient warning of the approach of the bicycle, and shall not, upon passing such person so riding or driving, ride at a greater pace than ten miles an hour.
   (d.) Such person shall not pass any vehicle or horse or other animal in charge of any person while such vehicle, horse, or other animal shall be on a culvert or bridge.
   (e.) Such person shall, on the request of any person riding, driving, or having charge of a restive horse and coming towards or going the same way as the bicycle, or on such person holding up his hand as a signal for that purpose, stop until such person with the horse or vehicle which he is driving, riding, or in charge of shall have passed or removed to the rear of the bicycle.
   (f.) Such person when riding on a road formed in a side cutting with an embankment, or a road having a fall on one side, or a road bounded by or near to a river or stream, shall, when meeting or overtaking any person riding, leading, or driving any horse or other animal, or driving any vehicle, ride on the embanked side, or the side on which the fall lies of such road, or the river or stream side of such road.
   (g.) Such person shall, when so meeting any person as mentioned in paragraph (f) of this section, warn by waving his hand the person he so meets to take the inside or the land side (as the case may be) of the road.

8. Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, or meeting any other vehicle or animal, shall, subject to sections 7 and 9 hereof, keep to the left or near side of the road; and when passing or being passed by any vehicle or animal going in the same direction shall, subject as aforesaid, pass or allow any person desirous of doing so to pass, when practicable, on the right or off side of the road.

9. Any person leading any horse or other animal, or in charge of any led horse or other animal, when passing any