SEPT. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2337

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XII, Mohaka Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road in Block XII, Mohaka Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Mohaka, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:—

A. R. P.
0 0 2 Portion of Lot 3 (D.P. 3421).
0 0 3 "
0 0 2 "
0 0 8 "
0 3 30 "
58 3 0 "
12 0 0 Portion of Lot 2 (D.P. 3420).

Situated in Block XII, Mohaka Survey District (Hawke’s Bay R.D.). (S.O. 675, green.)

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 52294 (sheet 1), deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

As witness my hand at Wellington this 13th day of September, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

By-laws under the Government Railways Act, 1908.

IN exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred by the Government Railways Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf, I, David Henry Guthrie, Acting Minister of Railways, do hereby amend the by-laws made under the said Act on the 29th day of May, 1909, by making the following alterations therein.

PART I.—GENERAL.

By omitting by-law No. 31, and substituting the following:—
“31. His Majesty the King will not be responsible for any loss or damage in respect to any goods received for carriage or carried on a railway train under any of the following circumstances, that is to say,—
“(1.) If the above-mentioned consignment-note is not delivered with the goods, or the receipt not obtained for the same.
“(2.) If the goods are wrongly or insufficiently described on the consignment-note.
“(3.) If the goods are allowed to remain on the premises of the railway for more than twelve working-hours after their arrival at the station to which they are addressed.
“(4.) If they are put into packages described as ‘empties.’
“(5.) If they are insufficiently or insecurely packed, or if articles liable by breakage or leakage to damage one another are packed in the same package.
“(6.) If the loss or damage arises from the act of God, civil commotions, King’s enemies, strikes, lock-outs, or other labour disturbances (whether of employees in the Railway Department or of other persons), or from fire (except from the railway engines or apparatus), or from accidental delays in transit occurring from either of these causes.
“(7.) Unless the claim for such loss or damage be specified in writing, and within seven days after the due time of delivery.”

By inserting in paragraph (1) of by-law No. 40, before the word “floods,” the words “strikes, lock-outs, or other labour disturbances (whether of employees in the Railway Department or of other persons).”

By omitting paragraph (5) of by-law No. 43, and substituting the following:—
“(5.) The amount of the fee payable in respect of every license shall be as may be fixed from time to time by regulation in that behalf.”

By omitting from paragraph (1) of by-law No. 44 the words “a fee of 2d.,” and substituting the words “the prescribed fee.”

By omitting paragraph (4) of by-law No. 45, and substituting the following:—
“(4.) The applicant shall pay a rental for the right of access to the railway by means of a private siding (payment to be made in equal instalments quarterly in advance) at the following rates per annum:—
“(a.) For private-siding access not being at a railway-station, £50.
“(b.) For private-siding access at any principal railway-station (as determined by the Minister), £50.
“(c.) For private-siding access at any other railway-station, £25.”

PART II.—PASSENGERS’ LUGGAGE.

By omitting paragraph (3) of by-law No. 46, and substituting the following:—
“Passengers may, at their option, and on payment of the prescribed charge, have their luggage checked between any two stations on a continuous line of railway, or between such stations on such separate sections of railway as may be publicly notified in that behalf from time to time, and such checked luggage will thereafter be held and conveyed at the risk of the Crown subject to the provisions hereinafter contained.”

By adding paragraph (8A) to by-law No. 46 as follows:—
“(8A.) His Majesty the King will not be responsible for loss of or from or damage to any package of checked luggage, unless notice of such loss or damage is given to an authorized officer of the railway—
“(a.) In case delivery of such package has been taken from the railway by or on behalf of the passenger in respect of whom such package was conveyed, within forty-eight hours after the time when delivery was taken as aforesaid; or
“(b.) In any other case, within seven days after the due time for delivery.

“Any railway stationmaster or manager shall for the purposes of this by-law be deemed to be an authorized officer of the railway.”

By omitting paragraph (26) of by-law No. 46, and substituting the following:—
“(26.) Luggage in excess of the quantity allowed to be carried free of charge will be charged at such rate as may be prescribed.”

By omitting paragraph (27) of by-law No. 46, and substituting the following:—
“(27.) Commercial travellers will each be allowed to take 112 lb. weight of luggage, and for the purposes of this paragraph any commercial traveller’s bona fide samples for exhibition only (including two bicycles, other than motor-bicycles) will be deemed to be luggage. Commercial travellers’ luggage in quantities in excess of that allowed to be carried free of charge will be charged at such rates and be conveyed under such conditions as may be prescribed. The Minister reserves the right to refuse to carry any particular article or package as commercial traveller’s luggage.”

By omitting paragraph (28) of by-law 46, and substituting the following:—
“(28.) Theatrical companies’ luggage will be conveyed as follows: Companies of not less than six adult passengers will be allowed to take free of charge 2 cwt. of effects for each adult ticket held. All effects in excess of the quantity allowed to be taken free of charge will be charged at such rates and be conveyed under such conditions as may be prescribed.”

PART V.—REGULATION OF TRAFFIC OVER COMBINED ROAD AND RAILWAY BRIDGES.

By adding by-law No. 49A as follows:—
“49A. Every person shall, before entering upon any bridge used for both ordinary road traffic and railway traffic, stop, and shall not enter thereupon—
“(a.) In the case of a bridge at which an officer of the railway is for the time being employed for the purpose of controlling the traffic over such bridge, unless and until such person shall have obtained the permission of such officer so to do; or
“(b.) In the case of any other bridge used as aforesaid, within fifteen minutes of the time when any train is due to enter thereupon.

“Nothing in this by-law shall abrogate or otherwise affect any other by-law or regulation made for the purpose of regulating traffic over bridges used for both ordinary road traffic and railway traffic or over any particular such bridge.”

And, in further pursuance of the said powers and authorities, I, the said David Henry Guthrie, do hereby amend the by-law made under the said Act on the 19th day of July, 1910, regulating the weight of cereals or other agricultural produce to be placed in any sack for carriage by rail by making the following alterations therein:—

By omitting the words “of 10s. per ton in addition to the ordinary railage charges,” in two places, and substituting in each case the words “prescribed in that behalf.”

As witness my hand this 9th day of September, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Acting Minister of Railways.