✨ Regulations for Carts and Carters




  1. No driver of any cart in any street whether public or private or in any public place shall feed any horse attached to such cart save by means and out of a nose-bag containing the forage and attached to the head of such horse or shall remove the blinkers of any such horse and every driver of any cart to which any vicious horse shall be attached shall keep such horse while standing on any stand or in any such street or place as aforesaid properly muzzled and every driver offending against this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

  2. Every owner or driver of any licensed woodcart or watercart for the time being employed as such respectively who shall stand with such cart save for such reasonable time as may be necessary for loading or unloading the same elsewhere than at some standing appointed for woodcarts or watercarts as the case may be shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

  3. Every owner of a licensed watercart shall cause his name and the words "licensed watercart" to be painted or marked and kept painted or marked in legible letters one inch in length and of a proportionate breadth in white or black ground or in black on white ground in some conspicuous place outside the premises where such cart is kept and if any such owner shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

  4. Every owner and driver of a licensed watercart shall keep such cart loaded with water during all times after sunset and before sunrise and shall if any building premises or property shall be on fire within the borough the council whereof shall have granted the license attend at the place of such fire with such cart loaded with water and shall continue to cart water by full loads to such place and shall deliver such water in such manner as may be required by any constable or officer of the council or fireman authorised by the council then present for extinguishing such fire and every such owner or driver who shall without reasonable excuse fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

  5. There shall be paid out of the borough fund to the owner of every licensed watercart who shall have attended with any water at the place of any fire as herein provided and delivered the same as required for extinguishing such fire such reasonable compensation as the council of the borough shall by regulation have appointed in that behalf and also to such owners as shall have first and second in order attended with loads of water at any such place such sum by way of reward as such council shall have in like manner appointed and every such payment shall be made if the council be satisfied on the certificate of some officer of the Council authorised in that behalf that the conditions contained in this sections have been fulfilled.

  6. The council having granted any license under this subdivision may at any time if it shall be proved to their satisfaction that the owner of the cart thereby licensed has been convicted of any offence against this Act or of any offence in respect of any property intrusted to him as such owner suspend for any stated time or on the like proof of a second such conviction or of any two such convictions suspend for any stated time or revoke as seems to them fit such license and no license while suspended under this section or otherwise shall be deemed to be of any force or virtue hereunder.

  7. The driver of every cart which shall during the hours after sunset of any day and before sunrise of the following day be in any street or public place within the prescribed space for any borough borough shall keep a light attached to or suspended from the off or right side of such cart so as to be plainly visible to the driver of any carriage proceeding along or through such street or place in a contrary direction to that in which such first-mentioned cart shall be directed and in the case of a nightcart only such light shall be such and be so disposed as to appear white in front and red at the outer side and every driver who shall fail to comply with this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

  8. Every owner or driver of any cart who shall use or employ the same in loading nightsoil offal carrying removing or depositing any nightsoil offal or other offensive refuse or matter within the borough between such hours of the night or shall deposit the same save at such places as respectively shall have been appointed by some regulation in that behalf shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

  9. The council of every borough in which this subdivision shall be in force and which shall not be within any common prescribed space may from time to time make regulations for all or for any of the purposes following that is to sayβ€”

For appointing the several sums to be paid for licenses for carts.

For appointing the weight to be carried for a single load by any cart licensed to stand or ply for hire.



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Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa PDF Otago Provincial Gazette 1876, No 1008





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