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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 118

OHINEMURI COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of the Ohinemuri County Council to execute a certain public work—to wit, the making of a road through Te Rae-o-te-Papa North E Section 3, situate in Block IV of the Waitoa Survey District; and for the purpose of such public work to take, under the provisions of Part 2 of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the amendments thereof, the lands described in the Schedule hereto.

And notice is hereby further given that a copy of the plan of the said lands so required to be taken is deposited at the offices of the Ohinemuri County Council at Paeroa, in the said county, and is there open for public inspection; and all persons affected, having any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said work or the taking of the said lands, are hereby called upon to set forth their objections in writing, and to send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Ohinemuri County Council at its offices in Belmont Road, Paeroa.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of land required to be taken: 1 acre 3 roods 34·6 perches.

Being portion of Section 3, Rae-o-te-papa North Block. Situated in Block IV, Waitoa Survey District, Ohinemuri County.

Shown on plan marked P.W.D. 4066.

Coloured on plan: Yellow.

Dated this 27th day of September, 1916.

R. W. EVANS,
Clerk, Ohinemuri County Council.

638

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All outstanding accounts to be rendered at once to EDWIN W. DAVEY, who continues to carry on the business.

Dated at Auckland this 29th day of September, 1916.

EDWIN W. DAVEY.

Witness to the signature of Edwin W. Davey—John Alexander, Solicitor, Auckland.

W. J. BRAEMAR.

Witness to signature of W. J. Braemar—Richard A. Singer, Solicitor, Auckland.

639

In the matter of the Rating Act, 1908, and of the Acts amending the same; and in the matter of the land known as Mangatawa, Pihama, in the County of Egmont.

THE Egmont County Council hereby declares that rates duly levied and payable in respect of Section 8, Block XIII, Opunake Survey District, containing 218 acres (more or less), and Section 6, Block XIV, Opunake Survey District, containing 219 acres 1 rood 12 perches (more or less), to the amount of £271 18s. 1d. are in arrear and unpaid, and that the period of nine months has elapsed since the date when such rates first became payable, and the above-named local authority is entitled to a lien on the said land in pursuance of section 14 of the Rating Amendment Act, 1913, for the amount of such rates, and hereby applies that the same be registered against the title to the said land.

As witness the common seal of the said local authority.

Dated this 11th day of July, 1916.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Egmont was hereunto duly affixed this 11th day of July, 1916, in the presence of—

M. FLEMING,
Chairman, County of Egmont.

640

COUNTY OF HAWKE’S BAY.

SPECIAL ORDER AMENDING THE BY-LAWS OF THE COUNTY OF HAWKE’S BAY AND MAKING ADDITIONAL BY-LAWS FOR THE SAID COUNTY.

RESOLVED at a special meeting of the Hawke’s Bay County Council held in the County Offices in Browning Street, Napier, on Friday, the 15th day of September, 1916, at the hour of 12 noon, that the underwritten resolution amending the by-laws of the County of Hawke’s Bay and making additional by-laws for the said county, as the same was passed at a special meeting of the said Council held on Monday, the 14th day of August, 1916, be and the same is hereby confirmed to the intent that the same may take effect and operate as a special order.

RESOLUTION ABOVE REFERRED TO.

In pursuance and exercise of all enabling powers and authorities vested in it by any Act or enactment, or otherwise howsoever, and in particular the powers and authorities vested in it by the Counties Act, 1908, and the Public Works Act, 1908, the Council of the County of Hawke’s Bay doth hereby resolve as follows:—

Firstly, that By-law Number 6 be and the same is hereby amended by making the several additions thereto and alterations therein set out in the First Schedule hereto.

Secondly, that By-law Number 10 be and the same is hereby amended in the manner mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto.

Thirdly, that the regulations set out in the Third Schedule hereto be by-laws for the County of Hawke’s Bay, and the same are hereby made and ordained accordingly.

Fourthly, that all and singular the said amendments and regulations do come into force on the 1st day of October, 1916.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

BY-LAW NO. 6.

AFTER clause 3 insert the following new clauses:—

3A. It shall not be lawful for any person to drive any traction-engine along any road within the county in such a manner as to keep the wheels of the engine or any of them travelling in any water-table or in ruts formed in the road by the wheels of the same or any other traction-engine.

3B. Every traction-engine while standing on or travelling along any road within the county shall have a “spark-catcher” or other similar device fitted to the funnel thereof in such wise as effectively to prevent the emission of sparks from the funnel.

Strike out clause 4, and substitute the following:—

4A. An engine shall not be driven at any greater speed than two miles an hour when crossing any bridge or culvert, than four miles an hour when passing through any town or village, than eight miles an hour when travelling along any public road outside the boundaries of any town or village.

The Council may at any point or points in any road affix and keep affixed a notice requiring drivers of engines to reduce speed to a limit mentioned in the notice, and on reaching any such point every driver shall reduce speed accordingly, and shall continue to drive at such reduced speed until he comes abreast of another notice authorizing him to drive at a greater rate.

In clause 13 (being the substituted clause passed on the 9th day of December, 1907), after paragraph (b), insert the following new paragraphs:—

(b1.) The owner shall further prove to the satisfaction of the Council that the engine is fitted with powerful brakes. For the purposes of this by-law brakes shall be deemed to be “powerful” if when the engine is running down a slope of not less than one in ten they will bring it to a standstill before it has travelled fourteen feet from the spot where they were first applied.

(b2.) The Council may serve upon the owner a notice in writing requiring him to make trial of the brakes of his engine at a time and place named in the notice, and if any such notice be given the owner shall be bound to have his engine ready at the time and place appointed, and shall then and there test the brakes of his engine in such manner as the County Engineer or other authorized servant of the Council may direct.

(b3.) The owner shall pay the cost of bringing his engine to and from the place of trial and of running it during the trial, and the Council shall not be responsible for any accident or the consequences of any accident that may happen in the course of the trial unless such accident shall be directly and immediately caused by the misconduct or wilful negligence of some member or officer of the Council.

In paragraph (c) strike out the word “fifteen,” and insert the word “forty” in lieu thereof.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

BY-LAW NO. 10.

STRIKE out clauses 1 and 2, and substitute the following:—

Lighting of Engines and Vehicles.

1A. Every traction-engine and every motor (other than a motor-bicycle) which shall be standing on or travelling along any road within the county between the hours of sunset and sunrise shall carry two white lights showing clearly in front and one red light behind. The two front lights shall be carried one on each side of the engine: