JUNE 2.]

6. Every owner of a traction-engine travelling upon a
   road or taken upon or over a bridge shall cause his name
   and address to be painted or marked on such engine, on
   the off side thereof, in letters not less than 2 in. in height
   and of proportionate breadth, and of such colour or in
   such a manner as to be plainly distinguishable from the
   colour or nature of the ground whereon such letters are
   painted or marked; and when such owner possesses more
   than one engine a separate number distinguishing each such
   engine shall in like manner be painted immediately below
   such name and address. The lettering and numbers shall
   be kept clean and legible. The exact and true weight of
   every engine shall always be painted in like manner upon
   or affixed to some conspicuous part of such engine. Any
   person who omits to paint or mark upon the engine the
   exact and true weight, or who incorrectly paints or marks
   upon the engine the exact and true weight, shall for each
   offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of £20.

7. The driver of every traction-engine required by this
   by-law to be licensed shall have the license for the same in
   his immediate personal possession, and shall, whenever
   required by the Clerk of the Board, or by any other
   person having a general authority in that behalf signed by
   the Clerk of the Board, or by any officer or constable of the
   police, produce such license for inspection forthwith. Any
   driver who shall, on being so required, refuse or fail forth-
   with to produce such license shall be guilty of a breach of
   this by-law.

8. The driver or other person in charge of any traction-
   engine within the district as well as the owner and the
   person in possession of any such traction-engine shall be
   liable for any breach of these by-laws.

9. Whenever a traction-engine shall be propelled upon
   a road the person in charge of such engine shall cause a
   strict and efficient lookout to be maintained behind as well
   as in front of the engine; and shall provide two efficient
   lights, to be fixed conspicuously one at each side on the
   front of the engine, and one efficient tail-light in the
   rear of the engine, or if wagons or other vehicles are being
   drawn by such engine, then in the rear of the last wagon
   or vehicle so drawn, such lights to be kept burning from
   half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise.

10. Whenever any person riding on horseback or driving
    a horse or horses in a vehicle upon or along a road shall be
    approaching an engine, and shall indicate his desire by
    holding up his hand or otherwise signalling for the driver
    of such engine to stop such engine, such driver shall there-
    upon immediately stop the same, and also shall, upon being
    requested by such person so riding or driving as aforesaid
    so to do, give such person such assistance as may be neces-
    sary for the purpose of enabling him to pass with his
    horse or horses in safety by such engine.

11. At least two persons shall be employed to drive or
    conduct every traction-engine.

12. The speed of engines shall not exceed seven miles
    per hour along any public roadway, and five miles an hour
    through any town or village, and shall not exceed two
    miles an hour while crossing any bridge or culvert.

13. It shall not be lawful for any person to take any
    engine or propel it upon any bridge at any time while any
    person with a horse or carriage drawn by a horse is on
    such bridge, or to stop any engine or wagon attached
    thereto on any bridge or culvert for the purpose of drawing
    water from any water-race, stream, or ditch passing under
    or through such bridge or culvert, or for any other purpose
    whatever.

14. It shall not be lawful for any person to rake out or
    discharge ashes or other refuse from the furnace of any
    traction-engine upon any bridge or culvert, or upon any
    road within a distance of 1 chain from any bridge or
    culvert or the approaches thereto; and in every case where
    such ashes or other refuse are discharged upon a road
    they shall not be left in a heap, but (if alight, having first
    been effectively extinguished) shall be spread out upon the
    road or the sides thereof in such manner that the road or
    the sides thereof shall be kept even and the level thereof
    maintained.

15. No person shall drive, propel, or take any traction-
    engine over a bridge or over metalled parts of roads if
    such engine has studs or other pieces or rings of iron or
    other metal attached to or raised upon the level of the
    faces of the tires of the wheels of any such engine (except
    as hereinafter mentioned) for the purpose or which shall
    have any effect of sinking into, gripping, or breaking the
    surface of any bridge or roadway : Provided that it shall
    not be a breach of this by-law if the tires of the wheels of
    any such engine are shod with diagonal cross-bars of not
    less than 3 in. in width nor more than $in. in thickness
    extending the full breadth of the tire, and the space inter-
    vening between each such cross-bar does not exceed 3 in.

16. It shall not be lawful for any person to drive any
    traction-engine upon a road in such-wise that all or any

of its wheels shall travel in ruts or tracks formed in the
road by the wheels of the same or any other traction-
engine.

17. The person in charge of an engine shall give imme-
    diate notice to the Clerk or Road Foreman of the Road
    Board of any damage or injury done by the engine or any
    wagon attached thereto to any roadway, or to any fence,
    bridge, culvert or watercourse, drain, side ditch, or other
    thing appertaining to any such roadway; and if such
    damage has rendered the roadway 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, place and maintain in such
    position and for such time as the Clerk or Foreman of the
    Road Board 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.

18. It shall not be lawful for any person to drive or
    take any traction-engine upon a road hauling any wagon
    the tires of which wagon are less than 6 in. in width. No
    person shall draw by any engine any wagon carrying more
    than 6 tons weight over and above the weight of the wagons;
    and no person shall draw by any engine or engines at any
    one time any load which shall be more than 18 tons in
    weight over and above the weight of the wagons.

19. The manner of ascertaining by computation the
    weight of and also the loading or contents of any wagon
    shall be by computing the weight from the quantity or the
    superficial or cubical measurement or contents of the
    vehicle and the load thereon by such one only of the
    methods applicable to the articles composing the load.
    For the purpose of such computation the following articles
    shall be deemed to be according to the following scale :-

12 sacks of wheat to 1 ton.

12 sacks of barley to 1 ton.

14 sacks of oats to 1 ton.

28 sacks of oaten chaff to 1 ton.

48 sacks of straw chaff to 1 ton.

500 sup. ft. rough or mixed New Zealand timber to

1 ton.

250 sup. ft. of Australian timber to 1 ton.

1 cord of firewood to 1 ton.

5 barrels of cement to 1 ton.

38 cub. ft. of lime to 1 ton.

45 cub. ft. of coal to 1 ton.

7 bales of wool to 1 ton.

5 cub. ft. of iron or steel to 1 ton.

1 yard of broken stone weighs 24 cwt.

1 yard of shingle weighs 24 cwt.

1 yard of rubble weighs 24 cwt.

500 bricks weigh 30 cwt.

1 yard of clay weighs 24 cwt.

1 yard of sand weighs 24 cwt.

20. The driver or the person for the time being in
    charge of any engine shall, whenever required to do so
    by any person authorised for that purpose by the Clerk of
    the Board, cause such engine to be stopped and to remain
    so stopped for a reasonable and sufficient time and allow
    such authorised person to inspect and examine the same
    and the load being transported thereon or in any wagons
    attached thereto; and the driver or person in charge shall
    permit such inspection or examination, and shall not ob-
    struct such authorised person in or about making such
    inspection or examination; and the driver or person for
    the time being in charge of any vehicle shall, at the request
    of such authorised person, give such information as to the
    load being transported and as to the quantity, weight, size,
    and measurement of the same as is then required by such
    authorised person.

21. The haulage or transportation on the roads within
    the said district of any traction-engine coming under
    the denomination of heavy traffic within the meaning of
    clause 1 of section 139 of the Public Works Act, 1908,
    during the months of June, July, August, and September
    in any year shall cease.

22. Nothing herein contained shall be held to relieve the
    owners or employers of traction-engines from liability in
    respect of injury done and damage sustained by the trac-
    tion of excessive weight or extraordinary traffic over or
    along any bridge or roadway.

23. Except where a greater penalty has been imposed by
    this by-law, any person committing a breach of or failing
    to comply with any of the provisions of this by-law shall
    for each and every such offence be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding the sum of £5.

24. The by-laws for regulating traction-engine traffic
    upon roads within the road district made on the 5th day
    of March, 1901, and now in force are hereby repealed :
    Provided always that such repeal shall not affect anything
    done, or any right or liability accrued, or order made, or
    license issued, under such by-laws or any of them.