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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 36

“Vehicle” means and includes every kind of conveyance
wholly raised above the ground on wheels, with or
without springs, drawn or propelled by animal,
mechanical, or any other power, and includes a
traction-engine or other engine.

“Heavy traffic” shall have the meaning assigned to
those words by section 139 of “The Public Works
Act, 1908.”

“Owner” includes a bailee entitled to the possession
and use or profit of a vehicle.

“Road” or “roads in the district” includes all or any
bridges, gates, culverts, drains, and other things
thereto belonging upon the line and within the
limits of the road, and includes every road (within
the meaning of section 101 of “The Public Works
Act, 1908”) which shall be under the care, control,
or management of the Board.

Words of the singular number shall include the plural,
and words of the plural number shall include the
singular; and words of the masculine shall include
the feminine gender, and vice versa.

2. These by-laws may be cited or referred to as “The
   Traffic By-laws of the Manurewa Road Board,” and shall
   apply to the whole of the Manurewa Road District.

The Traffic By-laws of the Manurewa Road Board.

1. No person shall, without the previous permission of the
   Board in writing in that behalf first had and obtained, engage
   in heavy traffic on any road in the district during the months
   of May, June, July, August, and September in any year.

2. No person shall, during the months of May, June, July,
   August, and September in any year, engage, use, or employ,
   either as owner or driver thereof, in any kind of traffic on
   any road in the district any vehicle having a load exceeding
   five hundredweight in weight for a two-wheeled vehicle,
   and a load exceeding ten hundredweight in weight for a four-
   wheeled vehicle, unless the number of wheels to such vehicle
   and the width of tires of such vehicle shall, in proportion
   to the number of animals used or employed to draw the same,
   comply and be in accordance with the Schedule set forth
   below: Provided always that in no case during the above-
   mentioned months in any year shall any person engage, use,
   or employ, as owner or driver thereof, any two-wheeled
   vehicle complying with this by-law upon any road in the
   district in carrying a greater load than one ton, or any four-
   wheeled vehicle complying with this by-law in carrying a
   greater load than one ton ten hundredweight.

SCHEDULE HEREINBEFORE REFERRED TO.
Four-wheeled Vehicles.

Two-wheeled Vehicles.

3. In regard to the following articles, the weight of any
   load may be ascertained by measurement or computation,
   according to the following scale, which shall be final, binding,
   and conclusive in any proceeding under these by-laws:—

Gravel, broken stone, or sand, 1 cubic yard .. .. = 1¼ tons.
400 superficial feet of rimu .. .. .. = 1 ton.
400 superficial feet of totara .. .. .. = 1 ,,
500 superficial feet of white-pine or kauri .. .. = 1 ,,
6 bales of wool .. .. .. = 1 ,,
350 bricks .. .. .. = 1 ,,
28 sacks oaten-sheaf chaff .. .. .. = 1 ,,
12 sacks potatoes .. .. .. = 1 ,,
10 sacks wheat .. .. .. = 1 ,,
14 sacks oats .. .. .. = 1 ,,
1 cord of firewood .. .. .. = 1¼ tons.
1 cubic yard of coal .. .. .. = ¾ ton.

4. It shall be lawful for any one acting under the authority
   of the Board, or for any police officer or constable, to stop
   any vehicle when on any road in the district, and to examine
   and measure the width of the tires of the wheels, or to measure
   and compute the weight of the load on such vehicle; and
   any person in charge of such vehicle who shall refuse to permit
   or shall hinder or prevent such examination or measuring
   shall be guilty of an offence under this by-law.

5. No person shall cause or allow any timber or any other
   heavy matter to be dragged on a road or to be conveyed
   along any road unless the same is wholly raised from or
   above the ground on wheels.

6. No person shall damage any water-table on any road,
   or drive any vehicle with a wheel in any such water-table.

7. The Board may by written notice call upon any person
   engaged in heavy traffic over any road in the district to enter
   into a bond with the Board (to enure to the benefit of the
   Board), with or without a surety or sureties (as the Board
   may by such notice require) to be found by such person and
   satisfactory to the Board, conditioned for duly repairing
   and making good to the satisfaction of the Board any special
   damage resulting from such heavy traffic, and such bond shall
   be in a penalty to be fixed by the Board not exceeding £200;
   and no such person shall after having been called upon by
   the Board to enter into such bond, with such sureties (if any)
   as shall be required as aforesaid, engage in heavy traffic until
   he complies with the requirements of the clause.

8. No person shall use or drive on any road in the district
   any traction-engine or other engine which shall have any
   stud or piece or ring of iron or other metal attached to or
   raised upon the level of the face of any of the tires of any
   of its wheels for the purpose, or which shall have the effect,
   of sinking into, gripping, or breaking the surface of any
   bridge, culvert, or metalled part of a road.

9. No owner, driver, or any person in charge of any traction or other engine shall take, drive, or convey the same
   across any bridge on any road in the district unless he shall
   first place planks at least three inches thick across such
   bridge to carry the wheels of such traction or other engine
   when taken, driven, or conveyed across such bridge; and
   shall not take, drive, or convey such traction or other engine
   across such bridge unless the wheels thereof shall be made to
   pass along and be supported by such planks.

Every person guilty of a breach of any of the provisions of
these by-laws shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five
pounds, or where the breach is a continuing one, then to a
penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day or part of a
day during which such breach continues.

I, James Martin, of Manurewa, in the Provincial District of
Auckland, in New Zealand, Grazier, Chairman of the Manurewa Road Board, hereby certify that the above special
order, making the above-mentioned by-laws, was duly made
and passed by resolution passed at a special meeting of the
Board on the 24th day of January, 1910, and confirmed at
a subsequent meeting of the Board held on the 21st day of
March, 1910, in accordance with the provisions of “The
Road Boards Act, 1908.”

JAS. MARTIN,
Chairman of the Manurewa Road Board.

Special Order made by the Waipukurau Town Board.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 15th April, 1910.

THE following special order, made by the Waipukurau
Town Board, is published in accordance with the
provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908.”

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

WAIPUKURAU TOWN BOARD.

Special Order.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” and
any amendments thereto, the Waipukurau Town Board
hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,600, authorised to be raised by the Waipukurau Town Board,
under the above-mentioned Act, for duplicating the gas
plant, extending gas-mains, &c., providing meters, and refunding to General Fund Account amounts paid out of Gas
Capital Account, the said Waipukurau Town Board hereby
makes and levies a special rate of ½d. in the pound upon the
rateable value of all rateable property of the Waipukurau
Town District, comprising all that area in the Hawke’s Bay
Land District in Blocks XIV and XV, Waipukurau Survey
District, as shown upon the plan deposited in the Head
Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in