JULY 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2701

N.Z. DENTAL CORPS.
Captain John Hunter Strauchon.

N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.
The Reverend Thomas Nevin Cuttle, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class.

N.Z. ARMY NURSING SERVICE.
The undermentioned return to duty :-
Staff Nurse Bessy Maxfield.
Staff Nurse Isabel MacLennan.
Staff Nurse Margaret Hamilton Paton McIlwraith.
Staff Nurse Margaret Jean Cameron.
Staff Nurse Christabel MacFarlane.

The undermentioned are posted for duty :-
Staff Nurse Catherine Lynette MacKenzie.
Staff Nurse Emily Frances Knowles.
Staff Nurse Esther Maud Tubman.
Staff Nurse Kate Evans.
Staff Nurse W. Lancaster.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 17th July, 1918.

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

Lieutenant-Colonel SIDNEY ALFRED GIBBS, M.B., New Zealand Medical Corps,

he having a total commissioned service to the 30th June, 1918, entitling him thereto, of twenty-five years three hundred and twenty-eight days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Special Order made by the Huntly Road Board making By-laws.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th July, 1918.

THE following special order, made by the Huntly Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Road Boards Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

HUNTLY ROAD BOARD BY-LAWS.

BY-LAWS OF THE CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS, AND INHABITANTS OF THE HUNTLY ROAD DISTRICT, PASSED AT A SPECIAL MEETING HELD ON 23RD MARCH, 1918.

THE Huntly Road Board, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon it by the Public Works Act, 1908, and by the Road Boards Act, 1908, and of every other power thereunto enabling it, hereby ordains as follows :-

1. In these by-laws, unless inconsistent with the context,—
   “Board” means the Huntly Road Board.
   “District” means the Huntly Road District.
   “Heavy traffic” means—
   (a.) The transportation of any vehicle, engine, or machine which itself or together with any things being transported thereon weighs more than 1½ tons avoirdupois to each pair of wheels.
   (b.) The traction of any vehicle or thing by means of bullocks, notwithstanding that such vehicle or thing may separately or together with any load thereon weigh less than 1½ tons avoirdupois.
   (c.) Any traffic which may from time to time be declared to be “heavy traffic” by Order in Council.
   “Road” means a public highway or thoroughfare within the Huntly Road District, and includes a roadway and footpath as herein defined.
   “Roadway” means any public highway or thoroughfare, save and except the footpath thereof as defined herein.

The singular number shall include the plural, and reference to a person shall extend and apply to a person of either sex and to a corporation.

“Cattle” means and includes any horse, mare, gelding, colt, filly, and foal; any bull, cow, ox, steer, heifer, and calf; any ram, ewe, wether, and lamb; any mule, ass, goat, boar, and sow.

“Owner” of any vehicle includes a bailee entitled to the possession and use of any such vehicle.

2. No person or persons, company or companies, corporation or corporations, shall during the months of May, June, July, August, and September in any year engage in any heavy traffic upon or along any road, bridge, ferry, or ford under the care, control, or management of the Huntly Road Board and within the Huntly Road District.

3. The penalty for any breach of clause 2 hereof shall be a sum not exceeding £5.

4. No person shall drive or conduct any vehicle or machine upon or along any road, bridge, ferry, or ford under the care, control, or management of the Board and within the district, unless such vehicle or machine shall have marked thereon in a conspicuous position, and in a plain and legible manner, the weight of such vehicle or machine; and any person who commits a breach of this clause of this by-law shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £20, notwithstanding the provisions of this or any other by-law to the contrary.

5. For the purpose of computing the weight of the contents of any vehicle or machine engaged in heavy traffic :-
   (a.) A measured ton of firewood shall be deemed to be 14 cwt.
   (b.) 500 superficial feet of sawn kauri shall be deemed to be 15 cwt.
   (c.) 63 cubic feet of kauri shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (d.) 40 cubic feet of rimu, puriri, green totara, or kahikatea shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (e.) 13 cubic feet of solid stone shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (f.) 25 cubic feet of earth shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (g.) 22 cubic feet of clay shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (h.) 27 cubic feet of scoria shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (i.) 30 cubic feet of stable manure shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (j.) 22 cubic feet of gravel or sand shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (k.) 20 cubic feet of broken road-metal shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (l.) 19 cubic feet of bricks shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (m.) 48 cubic feet of coal shall be deemed to be 1 ton.
   (n.) 25 cubic feet of kauri-gum shall be deemed to be 1 ton.

And so in proportion as any of the said respective several substances or things shall exceed the said measurements respectively.

6. No person or persons, company or companies, shall conduct, or cause to be conducted, all or any of the following kinds of traffic—that is to say, the carriage of timber, flax, road-metal, and marble, granite, or freestone cubes and monumental mason requisites, upon or along all or any of the roads under the control of the said Board, unless or until he or they shall pay to the Board, previously to so engaging or being concerned in the said traffic, and thereafter at intervals of not more than three months during the time he is or they are so engaged or concerned in the said traffic, by way of compensation for any damage likely to occur to any such road therefrom during the ensuing period of three months, a sum of money to be fixed or determined as reasonable for making good such damage.

7. No person shall drive, lead, or conduct any vehicle, contrivance, or machine containing or having thereon any timber, flax, road-metal, or marble, granite, or 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 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 previously 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 corporations, desirous of conducting such traffic upon or along any such road or roads may make application in the form in the Schedule hereto to the Board.

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

9. 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.

10. 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, logs, timber, bricks, stone, building or other materials, so that such flax, 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.

11. 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 metal, gravelled, or formed portion of any road within the district.