THE SCHEDULE referred to in Clause 3.—Table of

Rates and Fares for Hackney Carriages or Cabs
plying for hire within the City of Dunedin.

Fares by Time

For a carriage For Hansom having 1 and 2 wheels and 1 or 2 horses or more wheels Hansom cabs and 1 horse
£ s. d. £ s. d.
For the first hour - - 0 5 0 0 4 0
For the second hour - - 0 5 0 0 4 0
For the third hour - - 0 5 0 0 4 0
For every subsequent hour - 0 4 0 0 3 0
(Half-hours and quarters at same scale.)

Fares by Distance

For half a mile and any less distance - - 0 1 6 0 1 0
For a mile - - - - - 0 2 0 0 1 6
For every half mile, or a fractional part of half a mile - 0 1 0 0 0 9

Any person calling or sending for any carriage or cab, and not further employing same, exclusive of detention, charge 0 1 6 0 1 0
Half fare allowed back if distance exceeds two miles, provided the fare is not by time.

Detention

For every five minutes after the first five minutes - 0 1 0 0 0 0
No extra charge for luggage if under 50 lbs. weight.

Every driver of a licensed vehicle shall drive the same at a reasonable speed, about six miles an hour, unless unavoidably delayed, or required by the hirer to drive at any slower pace.

The driver of every licensed vehicle to produce a copy of the above Table of Rates and Fares on demand, and to have a copy of the same affixed conspicuously inside his carriage, on the front panel thereof, or in such other part thereof as the Council of the City of Dunedin may direct.

II.—A Bye-Law for the Licensing and Regulating

Waggons and other Vehicles, and the Owners, Drivers, and Conductors thereof; and for regulating the Sale and Exposure for Sale of Hay, Straw, Coals, Firewood, and Water, within the City of Dunedin.

Whereas it is expedient to make provisions by Bye-laws for licensing and regulating waggons, drays, carts, and other vehicles for the carrying of goods and merchandise, plying, kept, or let for hire, within the City of Dunedin, or used in hawking water within the said city, and for licensing and registering the names of, and regulating the conduct of the owners, drivers, and conductors thereof, and for regulating the sale, and exposure for sale, of hay, straw, coals, firewood, and water, within the said city:

Be it therefore ordered and directed by the Council of the City of Dunedin, by virtue of the authority in them vested—that from and after the day on which this Bye-law shall come into force, the following rules and regulations shall be in force:—

1. Every carter or other person who shall be desirous to ply with, keep, or let for hire within the City of Dunedin, a waggon, dray, cart, or other vehicle, for the carrying of goods or merchandise, or for the purpose of hawking or selling water, shall, on being approved by the Mayor or any Councillor of the City of Dunedin, register his name and place of abode in the office of the Town Clerk of the said city, and shall thereupon receive a licence, on which shall be written his name and place of abode, and the number of the licence; and for such licence he shall pay to the Town Clerk the sum of One Pound, and One Pound annually for its renewal in every succeeding twelve calendar months. And if any person shall ply with a waggon, dray, cart, or other vehicle for hire, or for the purpose of hawking or selling water within the said City, without being so licensed, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum of five pounds.

2. The Council of the said city shall from time to time appoint proper places within the said city to be used as stands on which the said licensed carters or other persons may ply with their waggons, carts, drays, or other vehicles for hire, and also appoint proper places where such licensed carters or other persons may expose hay, straw, coals, and firewood for sale, due notice of which shall be given in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette, and in one or more newspapers published in the said city; and every carter or other person who shall after such notice draw up or station his waggon, dray, cart or other vehicle, at any other place than the place or places named in such notice, in order to ply for hire, or to sell or expose for sale any hay, straw, coals, or firewood, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum of two pounds; and until otherwise provided the following places shall be used as such stands respectively, viz:—For licensed carters to ply for hire—

   • Jetty-street.
   • Rattray-street, near Wharf.
   • Duke-street, near Water of Leith.
   • Stuart street, near Jetty.

For exposing for sale, hay, straw, coals, and firewood—

• Market Reserve, Princes-street south.
• Duke-street, near Water of Leith.

3. The name of every licensed carter or other person, together with the number of his licence, and the words “licensed waggon, dray, or cart;” or other vehicle (as the case may be), shall be legibly painted in letters of not less than one inch in length upon the right or off side of the waggon, dray, cart, or other vehicle which he shall ply for hire, or on which he shall carry water for sale; and if any licensed carter or other person shall fail in this regulation, or having complied therewith, shall neglect to keep his name, the number of his licence, and the words “licensed waggon, dray, or cart;” as the case may be, at all times so legible and conspicuous, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum of two pounds. And if any person, not being duly licensed as aforesaid, shall ply with or carry any water for sale on any waggon, dray, or cart, or other vehicle upon which there shall be painted the words “licensed waggon, dray, or cart;” or other vehicle (as the case may be), he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum of five pounds.

4. It shall be lawful for the said Council in the months of January and July in every year, to regulate and fix by a table or tables, to be by them for such purposes made, the several or respective rates to be charged by any licensed carter or other person for the conveyance of goods, merchandise, or other articles, and to fix and regulate the distance to which such licensed carters or other persons respectively should be liable to go; and the said rates to vary and alter from time to time, and other rates to fix and establish, in lieu thereof; and such rates, when so regulated and fixed or altered, shall be notified at least once in one or more newspapers published in the said city, and shall be deemed to be the rates which, from and after such notification, it shall be lawful to be taken and demanded by such licensed carter or other person as aforesaid. And any such licensed carter or other person who shall take or demand any higher rate than shall be so regulated and fixed, or who shall refuse or neglect, between the hours of sunrise and sunset, to carry a good and sufficient load, or to employ his horse, waggon, dray, or cart, when thereto required (unless he be then actually hired by some other person), shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum of two pounds; and until otherwise provided, the rates and fares specified in the Schedule hereto shall be the rates and fares which may be lawfully demanded by licensed carters and other persons, and such Schedule shall be deemed part of this Bye-law.

5. It shall be lawful for the said Council to deprive