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rights in such letters patent), to present a petition to the Supreme Court at Wellington praying that the said letters patent be extended for a further term.

Any person intending to oppose such petition should give notice of such intention to the petitioners’ solicitors, whereupon a copy of the petition will be supplied and notice given as to the day upon which it is proposed to apply to the Court for a fixture for the hearing of the petition.

Dated this 15th day of June, 1914.

FINDLAY, DALZIELL, & SIM,
197 Lambton Quay, Wellington,
Solicitors for Petitioners.

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WAIKATO RIVER BOARD.

IT has been proposed, under and by virtue of powers conferred on this Board by the River Boards Act, 1908, at a meeting of the Waikato River Board held on 23rd May, 1914, that all land within the boundary as set forth in Schedule hereunder shall be a separate subdivision under the Waikato River Board.

SCHEDULE.

Whangape Subdivision.

That the southern boundary be the extreme limit of the Waikato River Board Rating Area; the eastern boundary, all that land included on the western side of the Waikato River between the southern boundary of the Waikato River Board District to the mouth of the Whangape Creek; the northern boundary to be the southern side of the Whangape Creek until it reaches the Glen Murray Road Bridge, following Glen Murray to the western boundary of the Waikato River Board’s District.

ARTHUR G. C. GLASS,
Chairman.

25th May, 1914.

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WOODVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL.

MOTOR REGULATION ACT, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Woodville County Council has decided by resolution to bring into operation Part II of the above-mentioned Act, empowering the said Council to become a registering authority.

M. HUTCHINS,
County Clerk.

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RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL ORDER MAKING BY-LAW CONTROLLING MOTOR TRAFFIC ON ROAD FROM NGARUAWAHIA TO WAINGARO HOT SPRINGS HOTEL.

By-law No. 10.

WHEREAS the body corporate called the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Raglan (hereinafter called the Raglan County Council) is of the opinion that the traffic and use of motors as hereinafter defined upon the road in the County of Raglan leading from the Town of Ngaruawahia to Waingaro Hot Springs Hotel is attended with danger to the public except it be restricted by the by-laws and regulations hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, the Raglan County Council, in pursuance of the powers in it vested by the Counties Act, 1908, and its amendments, the Motor Regulation Act, 1908, and its amendments, and the Public Works Act, 1908, and its amendments, and all other statutes and authorities it hereunto enabling, doth hereby make and ordain by special order the by-laws following, to come into force on the 24th day of June, 1914.

1. The by-law of the Raglan County Council called “By-law No. 7,” prohibiting motor-car and traction-engine traffic on the Ngaruawahia to Waingaro Hot Springs roads, is hereby repealed so far as it relates to traffic by motor-cars.

2. From and after the coming into operation of this by-law no person shall use or drive on or along the said road or any part thereof any motor having a total weight unladen of 32 cwt. or over, and any power or authority herein contained authorizing any motor to pass on or along the said road shall be deemed to apply to those motors only which when unladen weigh less than 32 cwt.

3. The driver of every motor when meeting on the said road any vehicle drawn by a horse or by horses, or when meeting any person on horseback, shall draw out on the outer side of the said road and stop the engine of his said motor, and cause the said motor to remain motionless on such outer side until such vehicle or horseman has completely passed the said motor, should he be requested so to do by the person in charge of such vehicle, horse or horses.

4. Whenever a motor on the said road approaches any part thereof or place thereon where there is placed a notice-board bearing the words “Motors—Dangerous Speed 6 Miles,” it shall be the duty of the driver of the said motor immediately to decrease and lessen the speed of such motor, and to pass the said place at a speed not being greater than six miles per hour. No person shall drive a motor round any corner on the said road at a greater speed than six miles an hour.

5. No person shall drive a motor on or along the said road or any part thereof between sunset and sunrise.

6. The driver of every motor passing along any part of the said road shall, when approaching and passing along any bend or corner thereof, or when meeting or overtaking any person either on foot or on horseback, or driving any vehicle, give notice of the presence of the said motor by sounding a long and loud blast of the horn thereof, and no person shall enter upon the said road driving a motor unless the said motor is equipped and fitted with a loud-sounding horn in good working-order.

7. Should any horse when driven or ridden along the said road become restive or startled at the approach or presence of a motor, it shall be the duty of the driver of the motor, if requested so to do by the person driving or riding the said horse, either (a) to reduce or increase the speed of the said motor to such rate as such other person shall request, or (b) to leave his motor and lead the said horse past the said motor; in case the driver of such motor is accompanied by any other person it shall be sufficient compliance with the terms hereof if such driver procures such other person to lead the said horse past the said motor if requested so to do as aforesaid.

8. It shall be the duty of the driver of every motor to stop the same and the engine thereof and all noise proceeding therefrom when any stock are being driven towards such motor on the said road, and until the said stock have completely passed the said motor. In the case of a motor overtaking any such stock it shall be the duty of the driver of the motor to reduce the speed of the motor to six miles an hour and to continue at such speed until he has completely passed the same.

9. It shall be the duty of the driver of every motor proceeding along the said road or any part thereof to give way to all other traffic thereon save and except other motor traffic. In the case of a motor meeting, passing, or overtaking another motor the ordinary rules of the road as prescribed by the Police Offences Act, 1908, shall prevail on the said road.

10. It shall be unlawful for any person being the owner or driver of a motor to have placed, attached, or affixed on or to any of the wheels or on any of the tires of the same when proceeding or passing on or along any metalled part of the said road any chain, rope, grip, or any other device or appliance whereby the surface of the road is gripped or held whilst the motor is proceeding or passing along or on the same.

11. Wherever in any of these by-laws certain conduct is specified as being the duty of any person therein indicated, such person shall be deemed to be guilty of a breach of such by-law who fails to observe the duty so imposed upon him.

12. For the purposes of this by-law “motor” is hereby defined as “any vehicle propelled by mechanical power if it does not exceed four tons in weight unladen, whether such vehicle is used alone or in order to propel or draw one or more vehicles whose weight, together with that of the motor vehicle, does not exceed five tons unladen. In calculating for the purposes of this Act the weight of a vehicle unladen, the weight of any water, fuel, or accumulators used for the purposes of propulsion shall not be included.”

13. For the purposes of this by-law “stock” means cattle and sheep, and also horses when driven unharnessed.

14. Penalty £5 for each offence.

The above resolution was duly passed by the Raglan County Council as a special order at a special meeting of the said Council held at Ngaruawahia on the 13th May, 1914, and confirmed at a special meeting of the said Council held on the 10th June, 1914.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Raglan has hereunto been affixed this 10th day of June, 1914, in the presence of—

CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE,
Chairman.

WALTER SEAVILL,
Councillor.

H. MARSLAND,
Clerk.

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