✨ Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
HENRY BUNNY,
PROVINCIAL SECRETARY.
VOL. XXI. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1874. No. 22.
Proclamation
By His Honor William Fitzherbert, Esq., C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.
WHEREAS by clause 84 of the Act of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, shortly intituled "The Highways Act, 1874," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to proclaim the following clause to be in force in any Highway District on receiving an application from the Board of Wardens of a Highway District, viz. :-
"Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of any Highway Board that the weight carried on vehicles having the breadth of their wheels of less than five inches requires to be restricted, the Board may, by notice posted in the district, or by advertisement inserted at least twice in some newspaper circulating in the district, give notice that all such vehicles will be subject to a penalty of not less than one shilling per hundred weight, or fractional part of a hundred weight so carried above the weight of one ton five hundred weight on two wheels, or two tons ten hundred weight on four wheels, and that such penalty shall be recoverable at the suit of the collector or other agent appointed for that purpose by the Board: Provided for the carrying into operation of this clause the Board shall be empowered to take such steps as to them shall appear necessary for ascertaining the weight of any load, and no liability or damage shall accrue for any necessary delay in ascertaining the said weight."
And whereas application has been made to me under the hand of the Chairman of the Wangaehu Highway Board, that the said clause may be proclaimed in force in the Wangaehu Highway District.
Now therefore, I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said clause as above recited, shall be and be deemed to be in force within the boundaries of the said Wangaehu Highway District on and after Monday, the tenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this tenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.
Countersigned—
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1874, No 22
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🏘️ Proclamation regarding the Highways Act, 1874
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government10 August 1874
Highways Act, Wangaehu Highway District, weight restrictions, vehicles
- William Fitzherbert, Superintendent
- Henry Bunny, Provincial Secretary