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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTË.
[No. 127
water-pipes, collars for water-pipes, lead, metal elbows, gas-any vehicle or the load thereon which in his opinion infringes
pipes, marble, granite, freestone, cubes, and monumental
masons' requisites upon or along all or any of the roads
mentioned in clause 6 of these by-laws, unless the cost as
estimated by the Board of reinstating the road or roads
consequent upon the injury to be occasioned by such traffic
upon or along which such traffic is to be conducted is pre-
viously paid to it.

8. For the purpose of ascertaining the cost of reinstating
   the road or roads upon or along which such traffic is to be
   conducted, any person or persons, corporation or corpora-
   tions, desirous of conducting such traffic upon or along any
   such road or roads may make an application in the form in
   the Second Schedule hereto to the Board.

9. No person or persons, company or companies, corpora-
   tion or corporations, shall make any application to the said
   Board pursuant to these by-laws containing any untrue
   statement.

10. Every person, company, or corporation who commits a
    breach of any of the provisions of clause 6 or of clause 7 of
    these by-laws is liable to a fine not exceeding £20, and every
    person who commits a breach of any other provisions of these
    by-laws is liable to a fine not exceeding £5, unless otherwise
    specially provided.

11. No person shall leave or allow to remain upon any
    road or any bridge within the district, or upon or over any
    channel or surface drain in any such road, any flax, wattle-
    bark, logs, timber, bricks, stone, building or other materials,
    so that such flax, wattle-bark, logs, timber, bricks, stone,
    building or other materials shall be a source of danger, or
    shall delay, impede, or obstruct the passage of any person,
    horse, or vehicle over such road or bridge.

12. No person shall drag or allow to be dragged on any
    road or any bridge within the district any flax, logs, timber,
    or other heavy material not being wholly raised above the
    ground on wheels or otherwise, or use or allow to be used
    any sledge upon any metalled, gravelled, or formed portion
    of any road within the district.

13. Any person who carts or causes to be carted any flax,
    wattle-bark, metal, stone, bricks, timber, or any building
    material whatsoever on or upon any road within the district
    when such road is wet or soft shall be guilty of an offence;
    provided that the Board, or some person having the autho-
    rity of the Board, shall have given to such person written
    notice, or shall have placed a written or printed notice in a
    conspicuous place on such road, or shall have inserted in a
    newspaper circulating in the district a notice that such road
    is unfit for the carriage of the above-mentioned goods.

14. No person shall cart or cause to be carted any flax,
    wattle-bark, metal, stone, bricks, timber, or any building.
    materials whatsoever upon any road within the district be-
    tween the Ist day of May and the 30th day of September
    (both inclusive) in each or any year without the written
    permission of the Board first had and obtained.

15. No person shall ride, drive, or lead any cattle on, upon,
    or along any footway or footpath constructed for foot pas-
    sengers only within the district.

16. No person shall drive, take, or conduct upon or along
    any public road in the district any vehicle, engine, or machine
    which with any thing or things being transported thereon
    exceeds for each pair of wheels the respective weights speci-
    fied in the first column of the table hereunder, unless the
    width of the tires of such vehicle, engine, or machine shall
    not be less than that set forth respectively opposite such
    respective weights in the second column of the said table.

Where the Weight of any Vehicle, Engine, or
Machine, together with any Thing or Things
being transported thereon, for each Pair of
Wheels-

Exceeds 5 tons
4 tons but does not exceed 5 tons
3
2
1½

The Width of each
Tire of such Ve-
hicle, Engine, or
Machine shall not
be less than

10 inches.
8
6
5
4

17. No person shall take any engine, agricultural or other
    machine or implement, or any load of materials of any kind
    weighing more than two and a half tons avoirdupois to each
    pair of wheels used, across any bridge within the district
    without the written sanction of the Board first had and
    obtained.

18. No person shall take or allow to be taken any traction-
    engine over any bridge within the district except upon planks
    laid upon the ordinary planking of such bridge.

19: Any person acting upon or under the authority of the
Board may at all times examine and measure the tires of the
wheels of any vehicle, and may examine, weigh, and measure
these by-laws; and no person shall obstruct or interfere with
any person acting under such authority, or refuse to permit
such examination and measurement.

20. No person shall obstruct, divert, or in any other way
    interfere with any watercourse or drain on any road.

21. All crossings shall be constructed by the Board as
    hereinafter provided.

22. In all cases in which an existing vehicle-crossing actu-
    ally used as such does not comply with any of the descrip-
    tions specified in the Schedule hereto the Board may give
    written notice to the owner of the land served by such crossing
    that it is not a sufficient crossing within the meaning of these
    by-laws, and the owner shall, within three months of the
    receipt of such notice, make written application to the Board
    to construct the said vehicle-crossing in such one of the
    methods described in the First Schedule hereto as the Engi-
    neer of the Board decides will be sufficient. If the owner
    fails to make application for the construction of the crossing
    within three months after the receipt of the said notice the
    Board may, if it thinks fit, at the expiration of the said term
    of three months, cause the said crossing to be constructed,
    and may recover from the owner the costs and expenses of
    the work, with 5 per cent. of those costs and expenses for
    supervision, and interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum
    until payment thereof.

23. In cases in which a vehicle-crossing of one of the
    descriptions specified in the First Schedule hereto exists at
    the coming into force of these by-laws, and so soon as in
    other cases a vehicle-crossing has been constructed as re-
    quired in clause 22 hereof, no person shall conduct or drive
    any cart, carriage, wagon, motor-car, motor-lorry, or any
    other vehicle whatsoever, whether the same be drawn by a
    horse, ox, or other animal, or propelled by any mechanical
    power, along, over, or across any footpath, drain, or water-
    table, except in the former case at the existing vehicle-
    crossing, and in the latter case at the vehicle-crossing con-
    structed by the Board.

24. In cases in which a vehicle-crossing of one of the
    descriptions specified in the First Schedule hereto exists at
    the coming into force of these by-laws, and so soon as in
    other cases a vehicle-crossing has been constructed as re-
    quired in clause 22 hereof, no person shall drive or ride any
    horse or other animal along, over, or across any footpath,
    drain, or watertable, except in the former case at the existing
    vehicle-crossing, and in the latter case at the vehicle-crossing
    constructed by the Board.

25. Every person desirous of having a footpath crossing
    leading from his premises into a roadway shall make written
    application to the Board to construct the same.

26. The Engineer of the Board shall estimate the cost of
    the proposed crossing, and the Board shall be entitled to
    demand and receive from the applicant the amount of such
    estimate before constructing such crossing, and if the amount
    paid under such estimate shall exceed the actual cost, such
    excess shall be refunded to the person who paid the same.

27. If any crossing shall become out of repair, the owner
    or occupier of the property or premises to which the crossing
    gives access, or any person for whose use or benefit the same
    exists, shall, within seven days after notice from the Board
    to that effect, properly and completely repair such crossing.

28. Nothing herein contained shall require any person
    whose land abuts upon a road having no drain or water-
    table and no footpath upon the side of the road upon which
    such person's land abuts to construct a vehicle-crossing.

29. These by-laws shall come into force on being gazetted,
    and shall apply to the whole of the district.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

(a.) A vehicle-crossing consisting of a properly covered iron
or earthenware pipe culvert in the drain or channel adjoining
the footpath, or in the drain or watertable on the side of the
road next to the applicant's property, with clay road approach.

(b.) A vehicle-crossing consisting of a properly covered iron
or earthenware pipe culvert in the drain or channel adjoining
the footpath, or in the drain or watertable on the side of the
road next to the applicant's property, with metalled road
approach.

(c.) A vehicle-crossing consisting of a properly covered
wooden box culvert in the drain or channel adjoining the
footpath, or in the drain or watertable on the side of the
road next to the applicant's property, with clay road approach.

(d.) A vehicle-crossing consisting of a properly covered
wooden box culvert in the drain or channel adjoining the
footpath, or in the drain or watertable on the side of the road
next to the applicant's property, with metalled road approach.

(e.) A paved vehicle crossing.

(f.) A macadamized footpath crossing.