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Public Notices CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL x NOTICE BY CITY COUNCIL PROHIBITING CONSUMPTION OR POSSESSION OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR IN STREETS CLOSED FOR PUBLIC GATHERING AND IN CATHEDRAL SQUARE THE CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL (hereinafter referred to as the Council) HEREBY GIVES NOTICE that pursuant to Section 343 of the Local Government Act 1974, the Council has resolved as follows: CLOSURE OF STREETS: THAT during the holding of the New Year’s Celebrations, Cathedral Square, Colombo Street (north of the intersection with Hereford Street, south of the intersection with Gloucester Street), Worcester Street (east of the intersection with Oxford Terrace, west of the intersection with Manchester Street), Plaza Lane, the right-of-way east of Colombo Street adjoining the Masonic Hotel (hereinafter referred to as the specified streets) shall be closed to ordinary vehicular traffic for the following period (hereinafter referred to as the period of closure): December 31,1981 — between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. January 1, 1982. ACTS PROHIBITED IN SPECIFIED STREETS:

THAT the following acts be prohibited during the period of closure: (1) drinking of intoxicating liquor in the specified streets. (2) The bringing of intoxicating liquor or empty glass intoxicating liquor containers into the specified streets. (3) The possession of intoxicating liquor or empty glass intoxicating liquor containers in the specified streets. (4) The driving or riding of any motor vehicle in the specified streets during the specified period, other than buses, taxis, Police, Ministry of Transport or Council vehicles. EXEMPTIONS: The resolution does not prohibit: (a) The carrying of intoxicating liquor from or to premises on land having a frontage to the specified streets: if (1) premises are licensed premises as defined in the Sale of Liquor Act 1962, and. in the case of the carriage of liquor from the premises, liquor may lawfully be sold during the period of closure; or (2) The liquor is, being carried by or for delivery to a person residing on those premises or his bona fide visitors- provided the liquor is promptly removed from the street. (b) The driving or riding of any motor vehicle from or to premises having a frontage to the specified streets, by a person residing in those premises or his bona fide visitors. POWERS OF POLICE: A further effect of the resolution of the Council is that any constable may, without warrant—

(a) Arrest any person whom he finds committing an offence as hereinafter mentioned: (b) During the period of the closure, arrest any person whom he has reasonable cause to suspect of having committed such an offence; (c) Search any parcel, package, bag, case, or other container in the possession of any person in or entering or about to enter the specified streets during the period of closure, for the purposes of ascertaining whether or not the parcel, package, bag. case, or container contains any intoxicating liquor or any empty glass intoxicating liquor container, unless the person in possession of the parcel, package, bag. case, or other container removes it from or. as the case may be, retrains from taking it into the specified streets and leaves it outside those streets until the period of closure then applying has expired. Any constable may seize and remove any intoxicating liquor and any intoxicating liquor container, which he has reasonable cause to believe would be evidence of the commission of such an offence. PENALTY: Every person who commits an oftence knowing that the closure and prohibition are in force, is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $5OO. DEFINITION: IN this notice—“lntoxicating Liquor” means liquor as defined in the Sale of Liquor Act 1962. J. H. GRAY. General Manager and Town Clerk. WEATHER permitting, electricity supply will be off in the Hoon Hay area TODAY (Thursday. December 10, 1981) as follows, to allow work to be done on 11,000 volt lines. 1.15 p.m. to 3.15 p.m.: Consumers adjacent to the intersection of Sparks Road and Hendersons Road. Supply may be restored at any time prior to the advertised time. J. H. DONALD, General Manager. MUNICPAL ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT.