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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 78, 29 September 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

■~WMM—————— ———■—■ — . —————»—»_— M_M_M_M_l_»«»M_M—W»«W*—M and in case any such driver or conductor shall at any time fail to comply with any of the requirements of this section, it shall be lawful for the inspector to order the driver or conductor so offending to quit any standing, and to remove from thence the carriage whereof any such driver shall be in charge, or to which such conductor shall belong, and any such driver or conductor so ordered to leave, and any such driver so ordered to remove such carriage as aforesaid* who refuses or neglects so to do immediately shall be guilty of an offence. Drivers to be Licensed. r 13. No person, whether owner or not, shall act as the driver or conductor of a carriage standing or plying for hire without having, in his immediate personal possession, a license so to act under the hand of the Town Clerk, who is hereby authorised to grant such license on being satisfied that the person applying for the same is of good character, and proper skill and fitness in that behalf, and every such license shall be registered by the Town Clerk, and a, fee of one shilling shall be paid for the same. .. _-i ;i .•! u 14. No such license as in the preceding section mentioned shall be granted for a longer term than twelve months, and all such licenses shall expire on the 31st day of December in each year. •■••■■:• ■", 15. The Council of the Borough of Feilding may at any time, in their discretion, either suspend for any stated time or absolutely revoke every or any license, whether as owner, driver, or conductor; and no license so suspended or revoked as aforesaid shall be deemed, during the period .of such suspension, or after such revocation, to be of any force or virtue whatsoever. Regulations for Hire. 16. If the driver or conductor of any carriage shall, except with consent of the hirer under special engagment, carry in or permit to enter any such carriage a greater number of persons than the number so licensed as aforesaid, or shall refuse when required by the hirer thereof to carry in or by such carriage the number of passengers which such carriage is licensed to carry, or a less number, together with a reasonable quantity of luggage, without additional charge ; or where the carriage plying as a public carriage shall refuse to carry any passenger, not forming with other passengers already \ being in _uch carriage an excess of the lk}4ifeed number of passengers, arid to whose admission no reasonable objection is made, every driver or conductor so offending shall be guilt}' of an offence. Private Use. 17. No owner or driver of any carriage which shall have been hired for private use shall permit or suffer any person to be carried in or upon or about such carriage during the hire thereof without the express consent of the person hiring the same. Obstruction. 18. Every driver of a carriage who stops such carriage across any street, whether public or private, or alongside of any other carriage or vehicle whatsoever, or refuses to give way to any other carriage, if according to the ordinary rules of driving he ought under the circumstances to do so, or who by loitering or any wilful misbehaviour causes any obstruction in any street, whether public or private, or who obstructs or hinders the driver of any other carriage in taking up or setting down any person into or from such carriage, or who wrongfully and wilfully prevents the driver of any other carriage from being hired, shall be guilty of an offence. 19. Every driver or conductor of any carriage who by loitering or any wilful misbehaviour shall cause any obstruction in or upon any street, whether public or private, or shall improperly delay such carriage upon any journey, or wilfully deceive any person with respect to the route or destination thereof, or who, except for the purpose of taking up or setting down a passenger, or except in case of accident or other unavoidable necessity, shall stop such carriage opposite to the end of or across any street, or upon any place where foot passengers usually cross the carriage way, shall be guilty of an offence. Furious Driving. 20. Every driver or conductor of a carriage who shall be guilty of wanton or furious driving, or who, by carelessness or wilful misbehaviour, shall during his employment cause any hurt or damage to any person or property being in any public or private street, or be intoxicated, or make use of any foul, insulting, or abusive language, or be guilty of any insulting or offensive gesture, or any incivility, or misbehaviour, shall be guilty of an offence. Lights to be Carried. 21. The owner of every carriage used in plying for hire or passengers after sunset and before sunrise shall cause the same to be provided, to the satisfaction of the inspector, with proper outside carriage lights, one on each side, and also one proper inside light, and the driver or conductor of such carriage shall keep the same properly lighted while such carriage shall be used. Property Left in Carriages 22. Every driver and conductor who shall respectively find in any carriage any property left therein, shall within twenty-four hours next after the same shall have been so found, or as soon thereafter as practicable, having regard to the closing of the office of the inspecter upon public holidays, carry such property to and leave the same at the office of the inspector. 23. The inspector with whom any such property as mentioned in the last preceding section shall have been deposited, shall forthwith enter in a book to be kept by him, the description of such property, and the name and address of the driver or conductor who'shall have brought the samev and the day on which it shall have been brought, and >ttae