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45. Upon being satisfied of the truth of the matters con-
    tained in such application and of the due compliance by the
    applicant with section 44 of this by-law, and upon payment
    of the prescribed fee, the County Clerk shall forthwith issue
    a license in the form in Schedule B to this by-law, to continue
    in force for a period of one year from the date thereof.

46. Every such license shall be signed by the County Clerk
    and numbered consecutively, and every vehicle or traction-
    engine licensed as aforesaid shall be registered with such
    number by the County Clerk in a book to be kept for that
    purpose.

47. The owner of any vehicle or traction-engine engaged in
    heavy traffic shall paint and, during the continuance of his
    license, keep painted his name and the number of his license
    on the off side thereof in plain and distinct lettering.

48. The driver or person for the time being in charge of
    any traction-engine on any road shall keep a constant look-
    out both in front of and behind the engine, and upon observ-
    ing any horse or vehicle approaching, or upon being signalled
    by the rider or driver of any horse or vehicle, he shall stop
    such engine and render all possible assistance to enable such
    horse or vehicle to pass such engine in safety.

49. Heavy traffic of all kinds shall cease on all roads during
    the whole of the months of May, June, July, August, and
    September in every year, and no license issued under this Part
    of this by-law shall be deemed to authorize the use of any
    vehicle or traction-engine in heavy traffic during the said
    months or any of them.

50. Provided that in respect of the period during which the
    roads are closed for heavy traffic the Council shall refund to
    the licensee the proportionate part of the fee paid.

51. The driver or person for the time being in charge of
    any vehicle or traction-engine upon any road shall, when re-
    quested so to do by the Engineer or other person authorized
    in that behalf by the Engineer or by the Council, stop for a
    reasonable and sufficient time his vehicle or traction-engine,
    and shall permit such Engineer or other person to ascertain
    the width of the tires of the wheels thereof, the weight of
    such vehicle or traction-engine, and the quantity, weight,
    size, and measurement of the load thereon ; and such driver
    shall give to the Engineer or such other person information
    as to the load or contents thereof as such Engineer or other
    persons requests.

52. The Engineer, or other person authorized by the Engi-
    neer or by the Council, shall be entitled to ascertain the weight
    or measurement of any vehicle or traction-engine or of the
    load thereon, or of the contents thereof, by weighing the
    same at any weighbridge, or by computing such weight or
    measurement from the cubical or superficial measurement of
    such vehicle, load, or contents, and the driver or person in
    charge of such vehicle or traction-engine shall do all such acts
    for the purpose of enabling such weight or measurement to
    be ascertained as such Engineer or other person requests.

53. For the purpose of computing the respective weights
    referred to in this by-law,—
    500 superficial feet of kauri or kahikatea timber shall be
    deemed to weigh 15 hundredweight ;
    500 superficial feet of puriri or totara timber shall be
    deemed to weigh one ton ten hundredweight ;
    40 cubic feet of firewood, mining timber, or timber not
    otherwise specified shall be deemed to weigh fourteen
    hundredweight ;
    1 cubic yard of quartz, tailings, bricks, stone, gravel,
    sand, clay, or soil, or other similar substance or material,
    or any admixture thereof, shall be deemed to weigh
    one ton six hundredweight.

54. Nothing in this Part of this by-law shall apply to any
    authorized railway or tramway on, over, or across any road.

SCHEDULE A.
Form of Bond.

Know all men by these presents that I , and we
, are held firmly bound to the Chairman, Councillors,
and Inhabitants of the County of Thames (hereinafter called
"the Council") in the sum of pounds to be paid to
the Council, for which payment to be well and truly made
we bind ourselves and each of us our and each of our executors
and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these
presents.
Dated the day of , 19 .
Whereas the said has applied to the County Clerk
for a license for the following vehicle or engine, namely : .
And whereas the County Clerk, as a condition precedent to
the granting of such license, has required the said
with two sufficient sureties, to enter into this bond, which the
said has agreed to do: And whereas we the said
have, with the approval of the Council, agreed to
become such sureties: Now, the condition of the said bond is
that if the said shall pay to the Council reasonable
compensation for any special damage which shall accrue to
any road, bridge, ferry, or ford under the care, control, and
management of the Council by reason of any heavy traffic
thereon by the said vehicle or engine, this bond shall be void,
but otherwise shall remain in full force and virtue.
In witness thereof the parties hereto have hereunto set
their hands the day and year first above written.
Signed by the said , in the presence of

SCHEDULE B.
Thames County.---Form of Heavy-traffic License.
No. License fee, £
This is to certify that , of , is hereby licensed,
under Part VI of the Thames County By-law No. 1, to use
the hereunder described vehicle or engine in heavy traffic
upon roads within the Thames County. This license shall
remain in force for a period of one year from the date hereof,
and is subject to the provision of the said Part VI of the
said by-law.
[Description of vehicle or engine.]
Dated this day of , 19 .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Clerk, Thames County Council.

The foregoing by-law was duly made by the Thames County
Council by special order passed and adopted at a special
meeting of the said Council convened for that purpose on the
twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and
twelve, publicly notified in the Thames Star on the ninth,
sixteenth, twenty-third, and thirtieth days of January, one
thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and confirmed on the
fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and
thirteen.
The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and In-
habitants of the County of Thames was affixed to the fore-
going by-law in pursuance of a resolution passed by the
Thames County Council on the fourth day of February, one
thousand nine hundred and thirteen, this tenth day of Feb-
ruary, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, in the presence
of—
R. W. BAGNALL,
Chairman.
R. A. LAW,
W. BAKER,
Councillors.
W. S. CLARK,
County Clerk.
[L.S.]
By resolution passed on the eighth day of April, one thou-
sand nine hundred and thirteen, the foregoing by-law was
ordered to come into force on the first day of May, one thou-
sand nine hundred and thirteen. 378

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore
subsisting between JEAN MCLEOD and ALEXANDER
BEATTIE, carrying on business as threshing and general con-
tractors in the Geraldine District, under the style or firm of
"McLeod and Beattie," has been dissolved by mutual con-
sent as from the 30th day of September last.
All accounts owing by or to the late firm are to be rendered
or paid forthwith to Messrs. RAYMOND, RAYMOND, and CAMP-
BELL, of Timaru, solicitors for the said Jean McLeod, or to
Mr. JAMES EMSLIE, of Timaru, solicitor for the said Alexander
Beattie.
Dated the 2nd day of May, 1913.
JEAN MCLEOD.
Witness to the signature of Jean McLeod—John McLeod,
Clerk, Geraldine.
ALEXR. BEATTIE.
Witness to the signature of Alexander Beattie—Jas. Emslie,
Solicitor, Timaru. 379

CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAY BOARD.

ST. MARTINS TRAMWAY SPECIAL-RATING AREA.

I, HELYAR WEDDERBURN BISHOP, of Christ-
church, Stipendiary Magistrate, do hereby certify that
upon hearing objectors to the rating roll of the above special-
rating area I have allowed certain objections thereto, thereby
excluding from the special-rating area as gazetted in the New
Zealand Gazette (1913, p. 724-725) the whole of Rural Section .