1818
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

7. The trustees will not be responsible for the wrong or non-delivery of goods which are erroneously or deficiently marked, or which have numerous old or imperfectly erased marks thereon, or where two or more consignees have the same mark or marks for the same or similar description of goods.

8. No person shall receive from or deliver to any ship or boat any goods or cargo except through the wharfinger or other deputed person.

9. No goods shall be left on the wharf, or in the shed attached thereto, for a longer period than forty-eight hours without permission from the wharfinger; and the wharfinger may, when in his opinion the public convenience and the proper working of the wharf and shed require it, at any time during or after the expiration of such period, cause any goods to be removed from such wharf or shed, or the approaches thereto, to any place he may think proper, at the expense and risk of the owner or his agent or the person in charge of such goods.

10. All goods which are not tallied by the wharfinger shall not be deemed for any purpose to be in the custody of the trustees, nor shall they be responsible for their safe custody, or for any loss or damage that may accrue to the same in any manner whatsoever.

11. All goods landed on the wharf or placed thereon for shipment shall be placed as the wharfinger may direct, and no goods, cargo, or other articles shall be placed in the shed or on the wharf so as to be an impediment to the approach or an obstacle to the removal of other goods, or so as to encumber the working of the plant and appliances thereon.

12. No person, other than the consignee or his agent, shall cut or open any sack, bag, case, or package of any description on the trustees’ premises for any purpose whatever.

13. The trustees shall not be responsible for the safe custody of packages containing acids, chemicals, inflammable oils, or other dangerous goods.

14. No goods or articles of any description which, in the opinion of the wharfinger, are likely to occasion damage to the shed or to other goods therein shall be placed or stored in any such shed.

15. No goods shall be landed or shipped in wet weather without the permission of the wharfinger, but the giving of such permission shall not throw upon the trustees any liability for damage to such goods caused by handling in wet weather. The determination of the wharfinger that the weather is wet shall be conclusive.

16. The trustees shall not be bound to find storage room, either in the shed or on the wharf, for any goods when, in the opinion of the wharfinger, no sufficient accommodation is available.

17. All cargo or goods landed on the wharf shall be in charge of the wharfinger, who shall place them in the shed or otherwise as he may think advisable. All goods may remain in the shed for a period of forty-eight hours, but may, with the wharfinger’s permission, remain in the shed for such further period as the wharfinger may permit, at the consignee’s or owner’s risk, but the giving of such permission shall not throw upon the trustees any liability for damage or deterioration from any cause whatever.

18. The trustees shall not be responsible for loss or damage to goods while in their custody by fire, water used in extinguishing fire, vermin, earthquake, the action of the sea, theft, robbery, or other like cause, except when due to the negligence of the trustees.

19. All wharfage dues on inward cargo must be paid on the delivery of the goods, and on outward cargo before it is shipped.

20. All wool put into the shed shall be stowed by the owner or his agent in such manner as directed by the wharfinger or his deputy.

21. No goods of a dangerous or inflammable nature landed on the wharf shall go into the shed, and such goods shall remain at the owner’s risk while lying on the wharf; and the owner of any such goods shall be held responsible for any accident, damage, or loss that may result from such goods being on the wharf.

22. All complaints about the working of the wharf or shed, or against the wharfinger or his representative, shall be made in writing to the chairman of the trustees.

23. No person shall smoke in the shed.

24. No person shall commit a nuisance on, under, or about the wharf or any of the trustees’ premises.

25. No person shall scribble upon, cut, scratch, paint, or otherwise deface the wharf, shed, or other property of the trustees.

26. No person shall place any placard, notice, or advertisement on any portion of the wharf or shed without the permission of the wharfinger.

27. No person shall play or tamper with any crane, truck, machinery or plant, nor make any use thereof except when entitled to do so under these regulations.

28. No person owning or being in charge of any dog shall permit it to enter or remain on the wharf, unless such dog is either engaged in shipping stock or is led by a strap or chain, or is otherwise under the immediate control of the person accompanying such dog.

29. No person has any absolute right to be on the wharf or in the shed unless he has legitimate business to warrant his presence thereon. Any person refusing, when asked by the wharfinger, to state the nature of his business shall be guilty of an offence.

30. Any person having no legitimate business on the wharf or in the shed must leave the same if requested to do so by the wharfinger.

31. No child of tender years shall be allowed on the wharf unless accompanied by an adult.

32. All boatmen, stevedores, carters, or others engaged on the wharf shall be under the control of and shall obey the orders of the wharfinger; and any person disobeying such orders, or in any way obstructing the traffic on the wharf, or making use of abusive or improper language thereon, or on board of any vessel or launch alongside thereof, shall be liable to a penalty.

33. No person shall disobey the lawful orders of the wharfinger or in any way obstruct the traffic on the wharf or in the shed, or commit any act resulting or likely to result in a breach of the peace on the wharf or in the shed.

34. If any person fails or refuses or neglects to do anything required by these regulations, or in any manner obstructs, impedes, or interferes with the doing of anything enjoined or authorized to be done, or wilfully does anything prohibited by these by-laws, every such person in any case so offending shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating the Election of a Member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day of May, 1915.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by section twenty-four of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, that where anything is omitted to be done or cannot be done at the time required by or under the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, or is done after such time, or is otherwise done irregularly in matter of form, or sufficient provision is not made by or under that Act, the Governor may, by Order in Council gazetted, at any time before or after the time within which such thing is required to be done, extend such time, or may validate anything so done after the time required or so irregularly done in matter of form, or may make other provisions for such case as he thinks fit:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 45, of the first day of April following, regulations were made governing the election of members of Harbour Boards by electors of combined districts, and providing that the provisions of sections five to sixteen inclusive, eighteen to twenty-six inclusive, thirty to thirty-two inclusive, thirty-five (except paragraph (d)), thirty-six to thirty-nine inclusive, and forty-five to fifty-four inclusive, of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, and of section two of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1911, and of sections two to twelve inclusive, thirteen (subsection two), and sixteen to twenty-four inclusive, of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, shall apply to the elections of those members:

And whereas by the hereinbefore-recited Acts and regulations it is provided that any notice of any election to fill any vacancy on any Harbour Board for a combined district shall be given not less than fourteen clear days before such election:

And whereas public notice of an election of one member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, as a representative of the combined district of the Boroughs of New Brighton, Woolston, Sumner, Lyttelton, and the Counties of Akaroa, Wairewa, and Mount Herbert, was through an error not given within the period of fourteen clear days prescribed as hereinbefore mentioned:

And whereas at the said election, which was held on the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, John James Graham was duly elected a member of