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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

(c.) Sell or deliver firewood, coke, or coal short of the quantity
purchased or of the quantity purported to be sold or de-
livered ; or
(d.) Make any false statement as to the weight or quantity of any
coke or coal or firewood ; or
(e.) Being engaged upon a vehicle containing firewood, coke, or
coal for delivery to any purchaser, make any false state-
ment as to the tare weight of the vehicle, or, wilfully do
any act by which either the seller or purchaser of any fire-
wood, coke, or coal is defrauded.

33. (1.) An Inspector may at all reasonable times stop and inspect
    any vehicle wherein is any coke or coal for sale or delivery in
    bulk or in sacks, and weigh or cause to be weighed, in the presence
    of the person in charge of the same, such coke, coal, or vehicle.
    (2.) Every such weighing shall be at the expense of the person
    selling such coke or coal.

34. Any person, who when requested to do so by an Inspector, fails
    to weigh or cause to be weighed any coke, coal, or vehicle as aforesaid
    commits an offence against these regulations.

35. Every seller of coke or coal shall provide on his premises a
    correct stamped weighing-machine.

36. Coke or coal hawked on any vehicle shall be in closed sacks.

37. Each sack containing coke or coal hawked on any vehicle
    shall have affixed thereon in a prominent and suitable position a
    metal label on which there shall be clearly and legibly marked in
    figures and letters not less than ½ in. in height and of proportionate
    breadth the weight of coke or coal in such sack.

38. Coke or coal carried on any vehicle for delivery to a purchaser
    shall be in sacks ; provided that when all the coke or coal on any
    vehicle is for delivery to one purchaser, and the quantity is 5 cwt.
    or over, it may be conveyed in bulk.

39. When coke or coal is conveyed in sacks on any vehicle for
    delivery to a purchaser, each sack shall have securely affixed thereon
    in a prominent position a suitable label on which there shall be
    clearly and legibly marked in figures and letters not less than ½ in. in
    height and of proportionate breadth the weight of coke or coal in
    such sack : Provided that this clause shall not apply if a ticket in the
    specified form is carried and produced as prescribed in the next
    succeeding clause.

40. When coke or coal is conveyed in bulk or in sacks on any
    vehicle for delivery to a purchaser, the seller shall provide a properly
    completed ticket in the form numbered 1 in the Second Schedule hereto,
    and the driver shall carry and produce such ticket on demand for
    inspection by an Inspector, the purchaser, or his representative
    before any such coke or coal is removed from such sacks or vehicle :
    Provided that when all the coke or coal on such vehicle is for delivery
    to one purchaser a ticket in the form numbered 2 in the Second
    Schedule hereto may be substituted : Provided further that this clause
    shall not apply if each such sack bears a label as prescribed by clause 39
    hereof.

41. When coke or coal is conveyed on any vehicle in sacks for
    delivery to more than one purchaser, and each such sack has not a
    suitable label thereon as prescribed by clause 39 hereof, the driver
    of such vehicle shall on demand by an Inspector indicate the sack or
    sacks for delivery to each such purchaser.

42. When coke or coal is conveyed in bulk on any vehicle for
    delivery to a purchaser, the seller shall provide a properly completed
    ticket in the form No. 2 in the Second Schedule hereto, and the driver
    shall carry and produce such ticket for inspection on demand by an
    Inspector, the purchaser, or his representative before any such coke
    or coal is unloaded.

43. The driver of any vehicle shall not at the same time convey
    coke or coal in bulk for delivery to different purchasers.

44. (1.) The driver of any vehicle, conveying coke or coal either
    in bulk or in sacks for delivery to one purchaser shall, if required by
    an Inspector or the purchaser or his representative, drive such vehicle
    to the nearest suitable stamped weighing-machine and have such
    vehicle weighed with the coke or coal thereon, and shall deliver such
    coke or coal, and, if required by such Inspector or purchaser or his
    representative, have the vehicle and any sacks in which such coke or
    coal was contained reweighed in like manner on the same machine
    after such delivery.