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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

Appointment of Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the
Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1913.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the
Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the
said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 25th March,
1895, and the 13th June, 1904, under the Electric Lines Act,
1884, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th
April, 1895, and the 16th June, 1904, respectively, the follow-
ing officers, at the addresses set against their names, are
hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the
purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under
the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates
in relation to the service of any such notices as are required
or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the
regulations aforesaid :—

COSTER, WILLIAM, Postmaster, Russell.
GILBERT, HENRY ERNEST, Postmaster, Rotorua.
KISSEL, HENRY, Chief Postmaster, Timaru.
OWENS, JOHN, Postmaster, Taihape.
WHITE, PERCY PAGET, Postmaster, Hamilton.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Minister of Telegraphs.

Officers appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 16th October, 1913.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the fol-
lowing appointments in the Public Service :—

JAMES HISLOP

to be Chief Electoral Officer ;

GILBERT GRAHAM HODGKINS

to be Deputy Electoral Officer ; and

WILFRID WULSTAN COOK

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Welling-
ton, as from the 1st day of October, 1913.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st October, 1913.

IT is hereby notified that

ISABELLA LUCY MAY KING

has been appointed to be the Deputy of the Registrar of
Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of
Mangapai.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 16th October, 1913.

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

Captain JOHN THOMAS MIDGLEY, Corps of New Zealand
Engineers,

he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 11th
September, 1913, entitling him thereto of twenty years and
sixty-three days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

By-laws regulating Traffic on the Public Works Service Road
from Okahukura to Ohura Valley, a Length of 7½ Miles.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon
me by section 139 of the Public Works Act, 1908, I,
William Fraser, the Minister of Public Works, do, in respect
of the road described in the Schedule hereto (hereinafter
referred to as “the said road”), which was declared to be
a Government road by an Order in Council dated the 11th
day of August, 1913, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 14th day of August, 1913, page 2415, hereby
make the following by-laws.

BY-LAWS.

1. THE use of bullocks as traction animals on said road is
   prohibited altogether for the period from 1st May to 1st
   November in any year.

2. The haulage or transportation on the said road of any
   vehicle, engine, or machine coming under the definition of
   “heavy traffic” within the meaning of paragraph (a) of
   subsection (1) of section 139 of the Public Works Act, 1908,
   shall not be allowed except with the express permission of
   the Public Works Engineer.

“Heavy traffic” is defined in the section above referred
to to be the transportation of any vehicle, engine, or machine
which itself, or together with any thing or things being trans-
ported thereon, weighs more than 1½ tons avoirdupois to each
pair of wheels.

3. The width of tires of all vehicles upon the said road,
   whether plying for hire or not, shall bear the following pro-
   portion to the number of animals employed to draw the
   same, that is to say :—

4. I do hereby prescribe that the weight of timber carried
   on any vehicle subject to these by-laws shall be ascertained
   by measurement at the rate of 600 sup. ft. of timber to the
   ton weight avoirdupois. And I do further prescribe that
   the manner of ascertaining the weight of the following articles
   shall be by computation according to the following scale :—
   Wheat, 12 bags of 3¾ bushels to one ton weight avoir-
   dupois.
   Barley, 12 bags of 4 bushels to one ton weight avoir-
   dupois.
   Oats, 14 bags of 4 bushels to one ton weight avoirdupois.

5. The driver of any vehicle or machine shall, at the verbal
   request of the Public Works Engineer or any person author-
   ized by him, stop such vehicle or machine, and shall give
   such information as to the load thereon or contents thereof,
   and as to the quantity, weight, size, or measurement of same,
   as such person shall require for the purpose of ascertaining
   such quantity, weight, size, or measurement.

6. If any person commits a breach of any of the foregoing
   by-laws he shall be liable, upon conviction for such breach,
   to a penalty of £5, provided that the Court before which
   proceedings may be taken in respect of such breach may, if
   it thinks fit, impose such lower penalty as it thinks adequate
   to the particular case.

SCHEDULE.

All that road in the Clifton County, Taranaki Land Dis-
trict, known as the Public Works Service Road, commencing
at its junction with the Ohura Road and proceeding thence
in a south-easterly direction generally adjoining Sections 10,
9, 8, and 7, Block XI, Tangitu Survey District, Sections 7,
8, and 9, Block I, Rangi Survey District, passing through
Section 6, Block I, Rangi Survey District, adjoining Sec-
tions 1 and 2, Block II, Rangi Survey District, across the
Ongarue River, and terminating at its junction with Okahu-
kura on the North Island Main Trunk Railway, being a
distance of 7 miles 30 chains, more or less ; as the said road
is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.
33857, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works,
at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon coloured blue.

As witness my hand, this 21st day of October, 1913.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.