May 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1653

J. AND N. PHILIPS AND COMPANY (AUSTRALASIA) (LIMITED).

THE office or place of business in New Zealand of above company where legal process of any kind may be served upon it, and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered, is situated at Strand Arcade, Queen Street, Auckland.

RALPH L. ZIMAN,
Solicitor for the Company.

359

CITY OF NELSON.

THE LOCAL BODIES’ LOANS ACT, 1908, AND AMENDMENTS THEREOF.

I HEREBY give notice that the result of a poll of rate-payers of the City of Nelson taken at Nelson on Wednesday, the 30th day of April, 1913, on a proposal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Nelson to raise a special loan of £3,000 for the purpose of erecting swimming-baths was as follows: Number of votes recorded for the proposal, 612; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 804; informal, 121.

I therefore declare the said proposal to be rejected.

THOS. A. H. FIELD,
Mayor.

376

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME.

I, ERNEST CHARLES CLIFTON, heretofore called and known by the name of Ernest Charles Davies, of Pahiatua, Plumber, hereby give public notice that I formally and absolutely renounce, relinquish, and abandon the use of my said surname of Davies, and have assumed and adopted and determined henceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and adopt and subscribe the name of CLIFTON instead of the said name of Davies.

And I give further notice that by a deed dated the 15th day of April, 1913, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the Supreme Court at Wellington, I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of Davies, and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended upon all occasions to use and subscribe the name of CLIFTON instead of Davies, so as to be at all times hereafter called, known, and described by the name of CLIFTON exclusively.

Dated this 6th day of May, 1913.

ERNEST CHARLES CLIFTON
(late ERNEST CHARLES DAVIES).

377

THAMES COUNTY.

EXTRACT FROM BY-LAW NO. 1.

PART I.

BY-LAW of the Council of the Thames County made in pursuance and exercise of the powers, provisions, and authorities contained in the Counties Act, 1908, the Public Works Act, 1908, the Public Health Act, 1908, and the Motor Regulation Act, 1908, and the several amendments thereof respectively, and of all other Acts, powers, and authorities enabling the said Council in that behalf.

1. All by-laws heretofore made by the said Council are hereby repealed.

2. In this by-law, except where inconsistent with the context,—

“County Clerk” shall mean the Clerk for the time being of the Council:

“Engine” and “traction-engine” shall include the water and fuel therein and thereon for generating its motive power:

“Engineer” shall mean the Engineer for the time being of the Council:

“Heavy traffic” shall mean—

(a.) The transportation of any vehicle, engine, or machine which itself or together with any thing or things being transported thereon, weighs more than one and a half tons avoirdu pois to each pair of wheels;

(b.) The traction of any vehicle or thing by means of bullocks, notwithstanding that such vehicle or thing may separately or together with any load thereon weigh less than one and a half tons avoirdu pois:

“Owner,” as applied to any vehicle, shall include any bailee thereof who is entitled to the possession or use thereof:

“Road” shall include every road, track, bridge, ford, ferry, culvert, or drain within the county or under the care, control, or management of the Council:

“Vehicle” shall include every cart, dray, wagon, truck, timber-carriage, lorry, motor, jinker, trolley, or other carriage whatever be its construction, and every part thereof.

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

3. Every person guilty of a breach of any of the provisions of this by-law 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.

The continued existence in a state contrary to any of the provisions of this by-law of any work or thing shall be deemed a continuing offence within the meaning of this section.

PART VI.

In respect of Heavy Traffic.

38. No person shall take any vehicle or engine, which shall itself or together with the load or weight carried thereon weigh more than two tons for each pair of wheels, across any bridge within the county or under the control of the Council without the written consent of the Engineer.

39. The width of the tires of wheels of vehicles used upon any metalled road shall be in proportion to the weight of the vehicle and the load carried thereon, according to the following scale:—

(a.) For a vehicle which shall itself or together with the load or weight carried thereon weigh not more than one ton, not less than two and a half inches.

(b.) For a vehicle which shall itself or together with the load or weight carried thereon weigh not more than one and a half tons for each pair of wheels, not less than three and a half inches.

(c.) For a vehicle which shall itself or together with the load or weight carried thereon weigh not more than two tons for each pair of wheels, not less than four inches.

(d.) For a vehicle which shall itself or together with the load or weight carried thereon weigh not more than two and a half tons for each pair of wheels, not less than five inches.

(e.) For a vehicle which shall itself or together with the load or weight carried thereon weigh not more than three tons for each pair of wheels, not less than six inches.

The owner and the driver of any vehicle which shall be driven, taken, or used on any road shall be deemed to have each committed a breach of this section if the width of the tires of the wheels, or of any of them, of such vehicle be less than is required by this section.

40. No person shall use any vehicle or traction-engine in or for heavy traffic upon any road unless the same shall be duly licensed in manner hereinafter mentioned.

41. Any person owning or using any vehicle or traction-engine who shall desire to obtain a license for the same shall make an application in writing signed by him to the County Clerk, stating in respect of the vehicle or traction-engine—

(a.) The name and address of its owner;

(b.) Its description and maker’s name;

(c.) Its weight; and, in the case of a traction-engine

(d.) The weight of fuel and water necessary for its propulsion.

Every such application shall be accompanied by the license fee hereinafter prescribed.

42. The applicant shall submit such vehicle or traction-engine to such inspection as the County Clerk shall require, and no license shall be granted in respect of any vehicle or traction-engine which shall appear on inspection to be unsafe or dangerous.

43. For every such license granted there shall be paid to the County Clerk in respect of each vehicle the sum of seven pounds ten shillings, and for each traction-engine the sum of twenty-five pounds.

44. The County Clerk may, as a condition precedent to the granting of any such license, require the person applying for the same to enter into a bond, with or without an approved surety or approved sureties, to the Council in such penal sum as the Council shall deem proper, that such person shall pay to the Council reasonable compensation for any special damage which shall accrue to any road, bridge, ferry, or ford by reason of any heavy traffic thereon by the vehicle or traction-engine in respect of which such license shall be granted, which bond shall be in the form set forth in Schedule A hereunder or to the like effect.