3238

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 93

“Owner” as applied to any motor shall include any person having the possession or use of a motor-car or motor-cycle:

“Person” includes a corporation.

1. The Selwyn County Council is hereby authorized to appoint a Motor Inspector.

2. The duties of the Motor Inspector shall be to examine applicants for certificates of ability to drive and handle motor-cars and motor-cycles, and to ensure the carrying-out of the provisions of the by-laws of the Council relating to motor-cars and motor-cycles.

3. No person shall, after this by-law comes into force, drive any motor-car or motor-cycle on the public roads of the county unless he shall—

(a.) Be the holder of a license to drive or certificate of ability to drive a motor-car or motor-cycle (as the case may be) issued by a Borough or County Council, or an Inspector or other official thereof authorized under the by-laws of such borough or county to issue such licenses; or

(b.) Have previously satisfied the Inspector of his ability to handle efficiently a motor-car or motor-cycle (as the case may be), and has applied to the Selwyn County Council for and has obtained a certificate to that effect.

4. Every person desirous of obtaining a certificate of ability to drive a motor-car or motor-cycle shall make application to the County Clerk in the form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto. Every such certificate shall be in the form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto. No such certificate shall be issued to any person under the age of sixteen years.

5. The fee payable upon application for every certificate of ability to drive a motor-car or motor-cycle shall be as follows : In respect of a motor-car, 10s.; and in respect of a motor-cycle, 5s. Every person who is the holder of a license to drive or certificate of ability to drive a motor-car or motor-cycle (such license or certificate having been granted under or by virtue of any Act for the time being in force in New Zealand or under a by-law of any local authority in New Zealand) shall, on production of such license or certificate, and on proof of his identity as such holder, be deemed to possess a certificate of ability without payment of any fee; subject, however, to the right of the Council to cancel or suspend any license or certificate of ability so far as the county is concerned, whether issued by the county or any other local authority in New Zealand, under the provisions as to the cancellation herein contained. “Holder” in this section means a person to whom and in whose favour such license or certificate has been originally granted. Each such certificate shall remain in force—

(a.) Until cancelled by the Council;

(b.) Until suspended by the Council;

(c.) Until the holder shall become physically or mentally unfit or incapable of driving a motor-car or a motor-cycle.

6. No person driving or in charge of a motor-car or motor-cycle shall, within the county, use any cut-out or other apparatus, device, or fitting which allows the exhaust gases from the engine thereof to escape into the atmosphere without first passing through a silencer or expansion-chamber, or other contrivance such as to be sufficient for reducing as far as practicable the noises caused by the explosion or escape of the said gases.

Penalties.

Every person who shall do or cause or suffer to be done anything contrary to the foregoing by-law, or who shall omit to do anything required to be done by him, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty of £5 or such lesser sum as the Court inflicting the same shall think fit; and in every case upon which such offence is a continuing one, a penalty of £5 or such lesser sum as the Court shall think fit for every day or part of a day during which such offence shall continue.

Repeal.

All by-laws relating to the regulation of motor traffic in force in the county on the date when this by-law comes into force are hereby repealed; provided always that such repeal shall not affect anything done, or any right or liability accrued, under any by-laws repealed hereby.

SCHEDULE.

County of Selwyn.

The Selwyn County Motor Traffic By-law, 1922.

APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF ABILITY TO DRIVE AND HANDLE A MOTOR-CAR OR MOTOR-CYCLE.

To the County Clerk, Selwyn County Council, Hororata.

I, , of , in the City, Borough, or County of , hereby apply for a certificate of ability to drive and handle a motor-car/cycle.

Dated this day of ,192 .

, Applicant.

[Form No. 2.

County of Selwyn.

The Selwyn County Motor Traffic By-law, 1922.

CERTIFICATE OF ABILITY TO DRIVE AND HANDLE A MOTOR-CAR OR MOTOR-CYCLE.

I, , Motor Inspector for the Selwyn County Council, hereby certify that , of , is able to drive and handle a motor-car/cycle.

Dated this day of , 192 .

, Motor Inspector.

The foregoing by-law was made by special order of the Selwyn County Council by resolution passed at a special meeting held on Monday, the 2nd day of October, 1922, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the said Council held on Monday, the 6th day of November, 1922.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Selwyn County was affixed to this special order and by-law on the sixth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, pursuant to a resolution of the Selwyn County Council, in the presence of—

F. J. ANDREW, Chairman.

S. R. WRIGHT, Clerk.

1152

ISLINGTON ESTATE COMPANY (LIMITED).

A T an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Islington Estate Company (Limited) held on Tuesday, 21st November, 1922, it was resolved that the resolution “That the company be wound up voluntarily” carried at the meeting of the 31st October, 1922, be confirmed.

T. H. HANSON, Liquidator.

23rd November, 1922.

1153

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership existing between the undersigned ALEXANDER MILNE HALLEY, MONTAGUE GERALD GARNHAM, and ALEXANDER WILLIAM TAYLOR, heretofore carrying on business at Alpha Street, Wellington, as Metal Merchants and Smelters under the style of “Alex. M. Halley and Co.,” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

Mr. Halley has retired from the business, which will in future be carried on by the remaining partners under the style of “Garnham and Taylor.”

All debts owing by or to the late firm will be discharged and received respectively by Messrs. Garnham and Taylor.

ALEX. M. HALLEY.

M. G. GARNHAM.

A. W. TAYLOR.

Wellington, 4th December, 1922.

1154

INGLEWOOD BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Inglewood Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Inglewood Borough Council Electric Light Loan of £3,000, 1922, authorized to be raised by the said Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of reconstructing and making additions to the electric-light installation and purchasing plant and material therefor, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of eleven-thirtieths of a penny (11/30d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Borough of Inglewood; and such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty (20) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

1155

J. SUTHERLAND, Mayor.

BALCLUTHA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Balclutha Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Balclutha Borough Council Municipal Swimming-baths Loan of £1,500,