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

County Notices. No driver or person in charge of a traction engine shall permit the same to stand upon a bridge for the purpose of drawing water, or for any other purpose, unless compelled to do bo by accident or other unavoidable circum stance. No person shall drive or take any traction engine, having one or more trucks or other vehicles attached thereto, upon or across any bridge or cul vert, unless a sufficient distance shall be kept between tbe engine and any truck or vehicle, and also between each truck and vehicle, as to insure that there shall not at any one time be upon any one span of the bridge, or upon the bridge if consisting of only one span, or upon the culvert, a greater weight than ten tons. No person shall discharge any ashes, cinders, or other refuse from a traction engine upon any bridge or culvert, or upon any road within twenty feet of the ’centre of such road, or unless such ashes, cinders or refuse shall have been completely extinguished and spread out so as not to in any wise injure such road or any fence or thing thereon or adjacent (hereto. No person shall drive upon any road any traction engine, to the wheels of which are attached (permanently or temporarily) studs, grippers, or other pieces of iron, so placed, shaped or constructed as to sink into or break the surface of tbe road. The person in charge of a traction engine shall give immediate notice to the County Engineer, County Clerk or Road Oversear, c.f any damage or injury done by the engine or any vehicle attached thereto to any road, way, fence, bridge culvert, watercouroe, drain, side ditch or any thing appertaining to any such road, and if such ba in age has rendered tbe road or its appurtenances dangerous for ordinary traffic or to tbe public safety, the owner or person in charge of such engine, shall, in addition to giving such notice as aforesaid place and maintain in such a position and for such time as the County Enginear, Clerk or Road Overseer shall direct, such signals as shall be sufficient to give warning to all persons using such road by day or night, of the existence of such danger.

The owner of any traction engine shall forthwith make good any dam' age caused by such traction engine to any road or any bridge or culvert or the appurtenances thereof. Nothing in this By-law contained nor any license or permit issued hereunder shall be deemed to relieve the owner, or person in charge of any trac« tion engine, from liability to pay compensation in respect of any damage done by such traction engine to any rdßd, bridge of culvert or tbe appurtenances thereof. MOTOR CABS. Any person driving a motor car upon any road, shall whenever required so to do by any person desiring to ride, drive or lead any horse or other animal past such motor car (whether such person shall be meeting or overtaking the same) take such motor car to the side of the road, and stop until the horse or other animal or animals shall have passed such motor car. And for the purpose of requiring a person driving a motor car to go on one side of the road and stop, it shall be sufficient if tbe person requiring him so to do shall signify the same to him by holding up one hand. Any person driving a motor oar upon any road, meeting or overtaking any person either on foot or riding or driving any horse or other animal shall sound a horn or give other Bimiliar warning before approaching within one chain of such person. The driver of a motor car when meeting or passing any vehicle or horseman on a side cutting shall keep on the outside of the road but in all other cases shall observe the ordinary rules of the road. LICENSED VEHICLES. No person shall ply for hire (or the carriage of goods within the County, or any part thereof, with any vehicle unless such vehicle is duly licensed by the Council. All licenses for vehicles to so ply for hire shall be in writing, under the hand of the County Clerk ; and shall be in force for a period of twelve months, as from the first day of April in each year. The following fees shall be payable in respect of vehicles licensed to ply for hire of carriage of goods within tbe County:— For each two wheeled vehicle, 20s For each four-wheeled vehicle, 40a Such fees shall be paid to tho County Clerk before the issue of a license.

The owner of every licensed vehicle plying for hire for the carriage of goods within the County shall oause the words “ licensed carrier ” with the number of tbe vehicle mentioned in the license thereof, to be painted in legible letters and figures on every such vehicle. WATBR-TABLES. No person shall drive any engine, machine or vehicle on a road in such a manner that any wheel or wheels thereof shall be in the water table. LIGHTS ON VEHICLES. No person shall drive any vehicle along any street road or public place between sunset and sunrise, unless such vehicle carries two proper and sufficient lights in front, bo fixed as to be plainly visible to any person approaching such vehicle from a contrary direction. No person shall ride any bicycle or tricycle on any street or road between sunset and sunrise, unless such bicycle or tricycle carries a proper and sufficient light in front. BILLIARD ROOMS. The Council shall issue a license for any public billiard room, which they deem suitably constructed, situated and conducted, subject to tbe following conditions : (•) Every mob Uouim shall bo hi