APRIL 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1019

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 31st March, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’
Decoration to

Lieutenant THOMAS CORNELIUS PRICHARD, 10th (Nelson)
Mounted Rifles,

he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 18th
March, 1913, entitling him thereto of twenty years and sixty-
three days.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 31st March, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-
service Medal to

The Reverend JAMES HUTTON MACKENZIE, Chaplain to
the Forces, 2nd Class, New Zealand Chaplains Depart-
ment,

he having a total service to the 28th January, 1913, entitling
him thereto of twenty years one hundred and ninety-two days.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Acceptance of Services of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 31st March, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept,
under section 43 (1) and (2) of the Defence Act, 1909,
the services of the

Gimmerburn Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Gimmerburn, Otago Military District.
Date of acceptance, 31st March, 1913.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Special Order made by the Wakanui Road Board making
By-laws.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th March, 1913.

THE following special order, made by the Wakanui Road
Board, is published in accordance with the provisions
of the Road Boards Act, 1908.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

WAKANUI ROAD BOARD, COUNTY OF ASHBURTON.

Special Order made by the Wakanui Road Board at a Special
Meeting held on the 1st day of February, 1913.

THAT, under the authority of the Road Boards Act, 1908,
the Public Works Act, 1908, and the amendments thereof,
and all other enabling powers, provisions, and authorities
contained in any other Acts or otherwise vested in them, the
Wakanui Road Board doth hereby make and ordain the
following by-laws for regulating the conditions on which
traction-engines engaged in heavy traffic may be allowed to
pass along the public roads within the Wakanui Road Dis-
trict, and for providing for a yearly registration fee on any
traction-engine engaged in heavy traffic within the said
district :—

1. The term “traction-engine” or “engines” where used
   in these by-laws means a locomotive engine propelled by
   steam or other power not being used on a railway or tram-
   way. The word “road” or “highway” means a road as
   defined in section 101 of the Public Works Act, 1908. “Local
   authority,” “Board,” or “Road Board” means the Wakanui
   Road Board. “Clerk of the Board” means the Clerk of the
   Wakanui Road Board. “Heavy traffic” shall have the
   meaning given to it by section 139 of the Public Works Act,

3. No person shall use, or cause to be used, or be concerned
   in using, any engine which itself or together with any thing
   or things being transported thereon shall weigh more than
   1½ tons avoirdupois to each pair of wheels on a road within
   the district for the purpose of hauling or carrying any load
   of any description whatever unless such engine shall be duly
   licensed in the manner hereinafter mentioned.

4. Any person owning or using an engine who shall desire
   to obtain a license to use the same on roads within the dis-
   trict shall deliver at the office of the Road Board an applica-
   tion in writing signed by him pursuant to the form contained
   in Schedule B to this by-law, or to the like effect, describing
   such engine, and for every such license granted by the Road
   Board there shall be paid to the Clerk of the Board such sum
   or sums of money to be placed to the credit of the Road
   Board fund as are respectively specified in Schedule A to this
   by-law.

5. Licenses for engines may be in the form contained in
   Schedule C to this by-law, or to the like effect, and shall
   continue in force for one year from the date of issue and no
   longer. In every such license shall be specified the number
   and duration of the license, the name and place of abode of
   the owner in respect of which the license is granted, the
   description of the engine, and the weight of the engine when
   unloaded.

6. Traction-engines shall be driven so that none of the
   wheels shall travel in ruts formed in the highway by the
   wheels of the same or any other traction-engine.

7. No engine shall pass along or come upon any bridge at
   any time while any person with a horse or carriage drawn by
   a horse is on such bridge.

8. If it becomes necessary to discharge any ashes or other
   such refuse from the furnace of any engine on any road or
   highway, or the sides thereof, such ashes or refuse shall not
   be left in a heap, but shall be spread out on such road or
   highway, or the sides thereof, in such manner that such road
   or highway, or the sides thereof, shall be kept even and the
   level thereof maintained :

Provided that no such refuse shall be discharged upon any
bridge or culvert, or any wooden structure, or upon any
metalled road within 1 chain of any bridge or culvert.

8. Whenever any person riding on horseback or driving
   a horse or horses in a vehicle upon or along a public
   road or highway shall be approaching an engine and shall
   indicate his desire by holding up his hand that the driver of
   such engine shall stop such engine, such driver shall thereupon
   immediately stop the same, and also shall, upon being re-
   quested by such person so riding or driving as aforesaid so
   to do, give to such person such assistance as may be
   necessary for the purpose of enabling him to pass with his
   horse or horses in safety by such engine.

9. While any engine shall be travelling upon or is being
   taken over a bridge or along metalled parts of roads no studs
   or other pieces or rings of iron or other metal shall be attached
   to or raised upon the level of the faces of the tires of the
   wheels of any such engine for the purpose or which shall have
   the effect of sinking into, gripping, or breaking the surface of
   any bridge or roadway.

10. The person in charge of an engine shall give immediate
    notice to the Clerk of the Wakanui 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, water-
    course, drain, sideditch, or other thing appertaining to any
    such roadway, and the damage shall be forthwith repaired
    and made good by or at the expense of the owner or person
    having charge of such engine.

11. Every owner of a traction-engine shall cause his name
    and address to be painted or marked on such engine on the
    off side thereof in letters of not less than 2 in. in height and
    of proportionate breadth and of such a colour and in such a
    manner as to be clearly 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.

12. 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 excessive
    weight or extraordinary traffic over or along any bridge or
    roadway.

13. Every person employed in driving or conducting an
    engine shall while so employed have in his possession a printed
    copy of these by-laws, and also the Certificate of Registration
    as mentioned in Schedule C of these by-laws, and he shall
    exhibit the same on demand to any person in charge of a
    horse or vehicle drawn by a horse, or to any member or
    official or employee of the Road Board, or to any constable.
    It shall be the duty of the owner to furnish every person
    employed in driving and conducting the engine with such
    copy of by-law, and the person in charge with the certificate.

SCHEDULE A.

Registration fee to be paid annually by the owner of any
traction-engine as mentioned or defined by section 1 of this
by-law, 5s.

C