PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Greymouth make the following Regulation that is to say:—

1. The following sum shall be paid for licenses for boats and for boatmen plying for hire on any water navigable for boats within the Borough of Greymouth or adjoining the boundaries thereof and not being within any other Borough or from any accustomed wharf jetty or other landing place within the said Borough or adjoining boundaries thereof and also in such water and not being within any other Borough that is to say:—

For any quantity of goods under twenty-eight pounds not being the fourteen pounds allowed to a passenger for luggage for the distance of half a mile or under 6d.
For every additional twenty-eight pounds or part thereof 6d.

Fares by Time.

For any time not exceeding half an hour 2s
Above half an hour but not exceeding an hour 4s.
For every subsequent hour 3s.
Whole day’s work 25s.

2. For every licence for every such boat as aforesaid there shall be paid to the Town Clerk of the said Borough the sum of £1 annually every such licence to be in force for twelve calendar months from the date of issue.

3. For every licence for a boatman for any boat as aforesaid there shall be paid to the Town Clerk of the said Borough the sum of 10s such licence to be an annual one and to be in force for twelve calendar months only from the date of issue.

4. The name of the owner of every boat and the name of the boat and the number of passengers or amount of goods she is licensed to carry at one time and the other particulars required by the provisions of the said 13th Schedule to be painted on every boat shall be so painted in legible letters on the stern board of every such boat.

5. The number of passengers and the amount of goods which it shall be lawful for any boat to carry at one time shall be fixed and ascertained by the Inspector of Boats and shall be set forth in the certificate to be delivered by him to any person desiring to obtain a licence for a boat as numbered in section or provision 78 of the said Part 10.

6. The rates and fares to be paid for the hire of any licensed boat or for the conveyance of passengers or luggage shall be as follows:—

Fares by Distance.

For every passenger half a mile or under 6d.
For every passenger above half a mile and not exceeding one mile 1s.
Each passenger to be allowed fourteen pounds luggage free above that amount to be charged for as ordinary goods.
Further distance to be charged by time.

For the hire of a licensed boat without a boatman 10s for the whole day.
Time or distance to be at the option of the employer.
In case of floods in the river being so declared by the said Inspector of Boats the above fares to be doubled.

Passed by the said Council this fifth day of March, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

(L.S.)

G. W. MOSS, Mayor.
J. C. MOORE, Councillor.
JOHN A. WHALL, Town Clerk.

REGULATION XIV.

Regulation of the Council of the Borough of Greymouth made under Subdivision No. 4; of Part No. 10. of the 13th Schedule of the “Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” for the licensing of Pedlars and Hawkers trading within the Borough of Greymouth.

In pursuance of section 88 of Part 10 of the 13th Schedule of the “Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” the Council of the Borough of Greymouth make the following Regulation that is to say:—

1. Every person trading as or desiring to carry on the business of a Pedlar or Hawker within the Borough of Greymouth shall apply to the said Council for a licence as a Pedlar or Hawker and the Council shall if it see fit so to do grant such licence.

2. Every such licence as aforesaid shall be an annual one and shall be in force for twelve months from the day of issue of same.

3. The fee to be paid for every such licence as aforesaid shall be £2.