[Port Chalmers By-Laws]

42nd. Any carter, or other person, selling, exposing, delivering, or offering for sale on any cart or waggon, any hay, straw, or coals, without having the correct tare weight of such waggon or cart painted and affixed thereto in some conspicuous place in letters of not less than one inch.

43rd. Any carter or other person, who shall refuse or omit, on being requested by any purchaser or intended purchaser of any hay, straw, or coals, to proceed with such hay, straw, or coals to the nearest weighbridge, licensed, provided, or sanctioned for that purpose by the Town Council and to have the same re-weighed at the expense of such purchaser or intended purchaser, the said purchaser in all such cases taking the said load or other quantity at the nett re-weight.

44th. Any carter or other person who shall refuse or omit, on being requested by the purchaser referred to in the last preceding section, to take to any weighbridge within the town, appointed or licensed for the purpose of this bye-law by the Town Council, the waggon, dray, cart, or other vehicle, after the delivery of the load, for the purpose of such dray, cart, or other vehicle, being re-weighed, and the correct tare weight thereof when empty, ascertained.

45th. Any owner or person in charge of any weighbridge within the Town of Port Chalmers who shall give a false or incorrect weight of any dray, cart, or other vehicle, or of any load or part of a load of goods thereon.

46th. All weighbridges within the Town of Port Chalmers shall be duly licensed in writing under the hand of the Town Clerk of the said Town; and any person keeping any weighbridge within the said Town, and not having paid the license fee of £1 annually for such weighbridge, and being unlicensed.

47th. Any owner or person in charge of any weighbridge within the Town of Port Chalmers who shall demand or exact any greater rates than those in this section authorised to be charged from any person using or desiring to use any weighbridge.

Rates chargeable for each vehicle having two wheels only, 6d.; do. do. do. for four wheels, 1s. Provided nevertheless that the Town Council may at any time by resolution vary the rates herein authorised to be charged; and after publication in the Provincial Government Gazette of any such alteration, the rates so altered shall be deemed to be the rates authorised under this Bye-law.

48. Any person hawking, selling, or exposing for sale articles in any street or public place within the Town of Port Chalmers, without having paid to the Collector appointed by the Town Council the undermentioned dues each day during which such articles may be hawked, exposed, or offered for sale, or other dues as may be from time to time fixed and appointed by the said Council. Dues for any person selling, hawking, or offering for sale, any articles in any street or public place:—

With cart, per day, 1s 6d.
Do., with bag, barrow, basket or box, per day, 6d.
And the onus of proof that any articles being delivered about the streets of the town have been previously ordered, and are not being hawked, shall in each case rest with the vendor or party delivering said goods. Provided always that quarterly licenses paid for as under to the Town Clerk, on behalf of the Town Council, shall entitle the license holder to vend or hawk commodities about the streets of the said town, subject to the several rules and regulations made, or from time to time to be made in that behalf:

Quarterly license fee for the sale of dairy produce or vegetables with a cart, 2s. 6d.
Quarterly license fee per horse or cart, for the sale of dairy produce or vegetables, 5s.

Quarterly license fee for the sale of fish, 5s.
Quarterly license fee for the sale or hawking of any other commodity, £1.

49th. Any person ringing a bell or bells, or blowing any trumpet or horn, or beating any drum, tambourine, or gong, in any street or public place within the Town of Port Chalmers, for the purpose of crying or calling any matter or thing whatsoever without being licensed so to do, such fee to be 2s 6d per quarter.

50th. Any person being the owner or tenant of any building abutting any street where the footpath has been formed, who by omitting or neglecting to secure and maintain the foundation of such building, causes or allows the formed footpath to fall in or be otherwise damaged.

51st. Any owner or tenant of any land or premises in front of which the footpath has been asphalted or otherwise paved, who omits daily to clear before eight (8) o’clock a.m. and to keep clean so much of the footpath as is opposite to or in front of any such premises.

52nd. Any owner or driver of any hay cart or other vehicle who, whilst such hay cart or other vehicle is passing through or along any street in the town unloaded, neglects to have the projecting frame detached from the body of the cart in such a manner as not to be an obstruction to the public, nor dangerous to life or limb.

53rd. Any person carrying upon any footpath or street-line any implements, tools, or materials, projecting in such manner as to be a public obstruction.

54th. Any person riding or driving any horse or other animal, either with or without a vehicle, round an angle or corner of any street or public thoroughfare within the town, or within three (3) feet of the apex of any such corner, at other than a walking pace.

Made by the Council of the town of Port Chalmers this 7th day of November, 1872.

(R.S.) H. DENCH,
Mayor.

GEORGE L. ASHER,
Town Clerk.

Notices

NOTICE. — From the 1st to the 20th of each Month, all official communications to Mr H. McNeil Campbell, Sheep Inspector, Waikouaiti, must be addressed to “Post Office, Hyde.”

NOTICE. — The Suburban Road Board will meet in the Green Island School House at 6.30 p.m. on the first Monday of every Month till further notice is given. — T. C. MORLAND, Clerk to Board, Green Island, 2nd December, 1872.

NOTICE. — Waikouaiti Road Board. — Ratepayers in Clevedon, Merton, and Beaconsfield subdivisions, are hereby given notice that the Highway Rate for the current year is now payable at the house of the Clerk. For convenience of Ratepayers the Collector will attend at the Kilmog Hotel, on Saturday, 21st December, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., and at the Toll House on Monday, 23rd December, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. — Wm. H. BAYLY, Clerk and Collector to the Board, December 12th, 1872.

NOTICE is hereby given that sections 1 of 24 and 25, block 3, Kaitangata District, containing respectively 108 acres, 40 acres, and 137 acres, 1r. 39p., and section 2 of 35, block 3, Kaitangata District, containing 48a. 3r. 1p. will be offered for sale.