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Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 320, 19 July 1907, Page 3

County Not'c’.EKAWBIA COUNTY COUNCIL. CONSOLIDATED BYLAW, 1007 IN pursuance of the powers, provi Bions end authorities contained in “ The Counlits Ac's 1886,” and its amenuiiwuta, “The Public Works Act, 19*05,” and of all other enabling powers, provisions and authorities con tained in any other Acts or otherwise vested in it, the Council of the Kawhia County doth by this special order make and ordain the following Consolidated By-law, and that the same shall come into operation upon the First day of August, 1907. INTRODUCTORY. This By-law may bo recited or referred to as “ The Consolidated Bylaw, 1907,” and > bail come into force on the First day f August, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and shall apply to the whole of the Kawbia County.

In Ibis By-law, except where inconsistent with the context: •‘Cattle” includes any horse, mare, gelding, colt, filly or foal; any bull, cow, ox, steer heifer or calf; any ram, ewe wether or lamb ; and any ass, mule, goat, boar, sow cr other •* County ” means the Kawhia County. “ Council ” means the Kawha County Council. “ County Clerk ” means the Clerk of the Kawhia County Council. “ County Engineer ” means the Engineer of the Kawhia County Council. •‘ Heavy Traffic ” means—(a) The transportation of any vehicle, engine or machine which itself, or together with any thing or things being transported thereon, weighs more than one and a-half tons avoir dupois to each pair of wheels ; (b) The traction of any vehicle or thing by means of bullocks, notwithstanding that such vehicle or thing may separately or together with any load thereon weigh less than one and a-half tons avoirdupois; (c) traffic which may from time to time be declared heavy traffic by-Order-in Council. PEDDLFRS AND HAWKERS. No person shall trade within the County as a peddler or hawker, unless licensed by the Council. Every such licence shall continue in force for the space < f six months from the date of the granting thereof. A copy of every such license shall be entered by the Clerk of the Council in a book to be kept for that purpose, Buch bock to be called “The Register of Peddlers and Hawkers Licenses’" and to be open to inspection by the public on payment of a foe of one shilling. Every person licensed to trade as a peddler or hawker shall be bound to produce bis license whenever called upon to do so. * There shall be paid to the County Fund the following fec-s : Peddlers on foot £2 2s Peddlers with horse or van £4 4s (There is no necessity to define “peddler” or “hawker” as they are defined by law.)

TRAFFIC OVER BRIDGES. No person t-ball drive, lead or take any horse, cattle, engine, machine or vehicle over any bridge of a greater span than ten feet at other than a walking pace. HEAVY TRAFFIC. No person shall conduct or engage in “heavy traffic” as defined in this By law on any read within the County at any time during the months of May, June, July, August and September in any year. Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Council by advertisement under the hand of the Clerk and published in some newspaper circulating in the County from time to time to exempt any road or part of a road from the operation of this section as to every or any specific heavy traffic. No person shall conduct or engage in “heavy traffic” as defined in this Bylaw unless and until be shall have first entered intoa covenant with the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Kawbia (expressed to be made under these By laws and in such form as the clerk shall approve of) with a surety to be approved of by the Council for payment to the said Corporation from time to time of sums representing any special damage that may accrue from time to time to any road, bridge, ferry or ford by reason of such “heapy traffic.” Provided that in the event of such person and the Council not being able to agree in any case up on the fact that special damtge had been done, or upon the amount of any special damage so done then the same respectively shall be ascertained by any Court of competent Jurisdiction in which the covenant shall be sought to be enforced Provided further that every such covenant shall remain in force until the principal covenantor shall discontinue conducting or engaging’in eueb “heavy traffic” and of such discontinuance shall have given written notice to the Clerk, but such cesaor of the covenant shall not prevent the recovery thereunder of damages theretotfotc incurred.

£. For the purpose of computing the weight of any load, for the purposes of thin By-law, the following quantities off the materials hereinafter mentioned shall be deemed to be of iho weight set opposite to them respectively : Gravel, broken atone or sand, 1 cubic yard f Cqu») JJ tOllfl atR) superficial feet of rinni or totara timber ■ball equal 1 ton fl* of kahikatca or kauri timber ehall equal * 1 ton f, bales of wool ... shall equal 1 ton 850 brickfl ... n 1». 28 sackfl of t-heaf chafl' „ 1 „ 12 pack h potatoes ... ~ 1 „ 10 sacks wheat ... ~ 1 „ 1! sacks oats... ... „ 1 1 cord of firewood ... ~ 1 1 cubic yard coal ... „ 4„ fi