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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

person, animal, or vehicle shall intervene his person between the horse or other animal led by him and the person, animal, or vehicle which he shall be passing.

10. Any person driving any cart, carriage, or other vehicle on any road between sunset and sunrise shall provide the same with proper side lights.

11. If any cattle shall be at large and without proper guidance in or upon any road or public place within the county, the owner shall be guilty of an offence.

PART III.

Traction-engines.

12. Traction-engines may pass along the roads within the county subject to the following conditions:—

(1.) Whenever any traction-engine shall pass along any road, the driver thereof shall allow as much space as possible for other vehicles, and for all persons using the said road, and for all horses, cattle, and sheep passing along the said road.

(2.) (a.) No driver or person in charge of any traction-engine other than a motor wagon shall drive or cause the same to be driven along any road outside any town district at a speed exceeding five miles an hour, or along any road through any town district at a speed exceeding three miles an hour, or across any bridge or culvert at a rate of speed exceeding two miles an hour.
(b.) No driver or person in charge of any traction-engine which is a motor wagon shall drive or cause the same to be driven on any road at a speed exceeding twelve miles an hour.

(3.) No driver or person in charge of any traction-engine shall cause or permit the same to come upon or pass along any bridge on any road at any time while any person with a horse, or vehicle drawn by a horse, or any stock, is on or about to come upon such bridge.

(4.) No driver or person in charge of any traction-engine, or any wagon or portable mill attached thereto, shall cause or permit such engine, wagon, or portable mill to stop on any bridge or culvert on any county road 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.

(5.) No driver or person in charge of any traction-engine shall cause or permit any ashes or refuse from the furnace thereof to be discharged upon a bridge or culvert on any county road, or upon any wooden structure appertaining to any such road, or upon a county road within 1 chain of a bridge, or culvert, or wooden structure as aforesaid, or to be left in a heap on a road, but shall immediately upon being discharged from any engine cause the same to be thoroughly soaked with water and spread evenly on the road.

(6.) It shall not be lawful to carry on any combine or wagon attached to or drawn by a traction-engine on a county road any greater weight (over and above the weight of the combine or wagon) than 4 tons, unless the tires thereof are at least 5 in. wide, and no combine or wagon drawn by any traction-engine shall carry more than 6 tons weight over and above the weight of any such combine or wagon.

(7.) No person shall, upon any county road which is metalled or gravelled, use any grippers or other similar appliance, or any appliance whatever, on any traction-engine, whether attached to the wheels of such engine or not, whereby the said road may be cut up or damaged.

(8.) When any damage or injury is done by any traction-engine, or wagon attached thereto, to any county road, fence, bridge, culvert, drain, or side ditch, or to any other thing appertaining thereto, the person in charge of such engine shall at once give notice in writing to the County Engineer, the County Inspector, or the County Clerk, and also to the surfaceman in charge of the road to or in connection with which the damage or injury has been done, of the nature of such damage or injury, and of the place or locality where, and the time when, the same happened; and, if such damage or injury 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, at once place at or near the place where such damage or injury has happened, and shall maintain for such time as the County Engineer, the County Inspector or the surfaceman 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.

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

(10.) When any traction-engine shall cross any bridge or culvert within the county with a truck or wagon attached to such traction-engine, a sufficient distance shall be kept between such engine and such truck or wagon to insure that there shall not at any time be upon any one span or upon any culvert a greater weight than 14 tons.

(11.) Planks not less than 12 in. wide and 3 in. thick and of sufficient length shall be placed longitudinally under the wheels of traction-engines when crossing bridges and culverts.

(12.) No traction-engine which, together with the maximum weight of coal and water which such engine is constructed to carry for its propulsion, weighs more than 14 tons, and no agricultural or other machine of any kind drawn thereby which weighs more than 10 tons, shall be taken on to or over any bridge or culvert on any county road without a special permit signed by the County Engineer.

(13.) Whenever the driver or person in charge of any traction-engine travelling on any road shall approach, meet, or overtake any horse then being led, ridden, or driven, or any cattle then being driven or in charge of any person, or shall from any cause whatever be unable to have a clear and uninterrupted view of the said road or of the traffic thereon for at least 50 yards ahead of such engine, the said driver or person in charge of such engine shall stop, and before proceeding further shall cause a man to go in advance of the said engine at a distance of not less than 50 yards therefrom to warn all riders, or drivers, or persons in charge of cattle of the proximity of the engine, and, if required so to do, to assist such riders, or drivers, or persons in charge of cattle; and the driver of the engine, whenever required by any rider, or driver, or person in charge of cattle, shall stop the engine at some suitable point or place so as to allow such rider, or driver, or person to pass with such horses or cattle.

(14.) Whenever a traction-engine shall be or be propelled upon or along any road between sunset and sunrise, the driver or person in charge of such engine shall provide and maintain two efficient lights, to be affixed conspicuously, one on each side, on the front of the same, and one efficient tail-light in the rear of the same; or when wagons or carriages are being drawn by such engine, then in the rear of the last wagon or carriage drawn by such engine.

(15.) The driver or person in charge of any traction-engine on any road while employed as such driver or in charge as aforesaid shall have in his possession a printed copy of this by-law, and also a license for such engine issued thereunder, and shall exhibit the same on demand being made by the County Engineer or County Clerk, or by any person authorised in that behalf under the seal of the Council.

(16.) Nothing herein contained shall be held to relieve owners or employers of traction-engines from liability in respect of injury done and damage sustained by the traction of any excessive weight or extraordinary traffic over any county road.

(17.) All licenses issued under Part V of this by-law in respect of traction-engines shall be and be deemed to be issued subject to the provisions of this Part of this by-law.