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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4944, 21 June 1887, Page 1

BOROUGH OF NAPIER. NOTIFICATION OF NEW BY-LAWS Nos. 30 and 31. NOTICE is hereby given that at a Special Meeting of the Borough Council held in the Council Chamber, Napier, on WEDNESDAY, the 15th June, 1887, the following BY-LAWS numbered 30 and 31 were adopted by a resolution of the Council by SPECIAL ORDER, and further that a'copy of the said By-laws is now open for inspection at the office of the Town Clerk daily during the usual office hours. BY-LAW No. 30. By-law of the Council of the Borough of Napier made under special order of the said Council, dated the day of 1887, confirmed on the day of 1887, sealed with the common seal of the said Council on the _ day of 1887, and ordered to come into force on tho day of 1887. In pursuance of the powers and provisions contained iv " The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886," the Council of the Borough of. Napier make and ordain the following By-law, that is to say : SECTION No. 1. REPEALING BY-LAWS. (1.) That section 16 of part S of the Schedule to By-law No. 1 of the Council of the Borough of Napier be repealed. (2.) That Regulation No. 3 of the said Council be repealed. (3.) That Section 5 of By-law No. 28 of the said Council bo repealed. SECTION No. 2. HACKNEY CARRIAGES & BOROUGH STAGE CARRIAGES. For the purposes of this By-law a " twohorse carriage" shall mean Landau, Sociable, or Brougham, drawn by two or more horses, and shall also mean a Hansom. A " one-horso carriage " shall mean a Brougham drawn by one horse, Wagonette, and also Express (whether drawn by ono or more horses). (I.) Every hackney carriage or borough stage carriage shall be allowed to carry one passenger for every 18 inches in width of seating room, provided such seating room to be computed exclusively of the driver's seat. Provided that no child under five years of age shall bo counted as a passenger, unless there shall be more than ono such child, in which case two children shall be considered as one passenger, and so in respect of every two such children. (2.) No number other than the number of the license and the number of passengers allowed to be carried, shall be painted or affixed to any Borough stage carriage or hackney carriage, plying for hire within tho prescribed space for the Borough of Napier. (3.) For every hackney carriage license there shall be paid a fee of £1. For every Borough stage carriage license there shall be paid a fee of £2. (4) Before permitting to stand or ply for hire any carriage the owner thereof shall cause the number of such carriage license, and as to any Borough stage carriage the number of passengers which the same is licensed to carry, to be painted white on a ground of black in figures not less than two inohes in height and of proportionate breadth, outside upon the panel or on the plate affixed thereon of each door of such carriage, but upon no other carriage, and shall keep such number undefaced, legible, and conspicuous during all such time as he shall hold such license or permission in respect of such carriage, and no longer. (5.) Before permitting to stand or ply for hire any carriage the owner thereof Bhall cause to be printed or painted on a card or plate, six inches by three inches, in clear legible figures the number of the license of such carriage, and tho number of passengers which such carriage is licensed to carry, and shall affix the same inside of such carriage, in such conspicuous place as shall be approved by the proper officer of the Council, appointed for the inspection of carriages together with the table of fares for the time being set forth by the Council, and shall keep such card or plate and table of fares so affixed aud undefaced, legible, and conspicuous during all such times as the carriage shall stand or ply for hire. (6.) As between any two or more drivers, any person hailing a hackney carnage from such stand as aforesaid, shall, unless he shall declare otherwise, be deemed to hail the first carriage in order thereon. _ (7.) Except in the cases of this clause specified, no driver of any hackney carriage shall permit the same to stand elsewhere than on some public stand. 1. Any driver may wait for hire at any place then open for public amusement, or for any public assemblage, provided that he wait at the side of the street, not less than 50 feet distant, from a point opposite the centre of the chief entrance of such place then open as aforesaid. 2. Any driver hired to wait at any such place of amusement or public assemblage, may take his turn in front of such place. 3. Any hired driver may wait_ for his hirer at any convenient place, which may be appointed by such hirer at the side of any street. (8.) No person shall act as driver of a hackney carnage or as tho driver or conductor of a borough stage carriage licensed respectively in pursuance of this section to ply for hire within the prescribed space for any borough without having a license so to act from the Council of such borough or in the case of two or more boroughs having a common prescribed space from the Council of some one of such boroughs which license such Council is authorised to grant. (9.) No license shall be issued to the driver of a hackney carriage or to the driver or conductor of a borough stage carriage unless the applicant for such license produces a certificate of his good character and competency as a driver or conductor as aforesaid, signed by two Councillors of the Borough of Napier and the Inspector of Carriages for the said borough. (10.) The Mayor of the borough for the time being is hereby authorised to sign on behalf of the Council the authority to issue such license upon tho production of the aforesaid certificate. (11.) Every such license shall be issued and registered by the Town Clerk of the borough, and a fee of 10s shall be paid for the same. (12.) Drivers' licenses shall expire on the 30th day of April in each year, and must be applied for annually in manner prescribed by sections 9 and 10 of this By-law. 13. If the owner of any borough stage carriage plying for hire within the prescribed space (for any Borough as described in section 1 of Part VIII. of By-law No. 1) shall desire on any special day or days to ply for hire on a different rpute to that which is endorsed on the license of such Borough stage carriage, ho shall procure to be endorsed upon the license for such carriage by the Town Clerk of the Borough, the Council of which shall have granted the same, a memorandum specifying and authorising such different route, and it shall be lawful for suoh owner to ply such carriage for hire on such different route only during tho day or days on which such route is allowed, and if any such owner on any such special day or days shall ply such carriage for hire on any route other than that specified in such memorandum, or shall ply such carriage for hire on a route other than that ordinarily plied, without having previously procured the endorsement of a memorandum as af orsesaid, he shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding forty shillings. SECTION No. 3. PUBLIC STANDS FOR HACKNEY CARRIAGES. (1.) The places for the Public Stands for Hackney Carriages and the Number of Hackney Carnages to stand thereon shall be as hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) o so . __ Name of ~, •.• Bfe No. Place. Description. g| © 1. Post Office.—Comer Browningstreet to fence Government Buildings ••__•_./• 4 2. Tennyson-street. Southern Corner of Tennyson-street and Hastings-street to Corner of Market-street .. •• 4 3. Hastings-street.—Corner Emer-son-street to corner Tennysonstreet between Criterion Hotel and Mr Crerar's Corner of Tennyson-street .. •• * 4. Clivc Square.—Between Corner of road leading to Wesleyan Church and Corner of Newton and Co.'s old Store .. .. 8 6. Tennyson - street. — Between Masonic Hotel and Beach .. * 6. PortAhuriri. —Alongside of Post Office .. 4 7. Emerson-street. —(East of Hast-ings-street) from Neal and Close's to th» Beach .. .. 4 8. Hastings-street. —Between the S. end of tho Iron Railings at the Union Bank and Mr Harding'spremises (Expresses only) ... '.'.'.-:■'-, ■■>• ' •• 6 • 9. Olive-street, East. '. of Clive-street E., between i Emerson-street and TennysonI street, on each side of street;, 7