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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
Vol. XVIII. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1871. No. LX.
REGULATION NO. 2, BYE-LAW NO. 5.
New Buildings.
[Gazette No. 54, dated November 28, 1871.]
FOR CLAUSE 3 as printed, read as follows:—
No party wall or main side wall, as the case may be, of every new building to be erected within the district aforesaid, shall be constructed otherwise than of brick, stone, or concrete, or shall be of less than the thickness hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, if constructed of brick or cement concrete, composed of one of cement to five of shingle or other material, and to a height not exceeding 15 feet from the foundation thereof, and comprising one storey only, then of a thickness of not less than nine inches; and if of brick, and to a height not exceeding 25 feet from the foundation, and comprising not more than two storeys, then of a thickness throughout, or throughout the lower storey if more than one, of not less than 13½ inches, and from the lower storey upwards of not less than nine inches; and if of brick, and to a height not exceeding 35 feet from the foundation, and comprising not more than three storeys, then of a thickness throughout, or throughout the lower storey if more than one, of not less than 18 inches, and throughout the second storey, if more than two, of not less than 13½ inches, and from thence upwards of not less than nine inches, and so on in proportion throughout the storey or storeys as the case may be, for any greater height than 35 feet from the foundations. But if the wall shall be constructed of flat bedded stone, the above thickness to be read as 14 inches in place of 9 inches, 18 inches in place of 13½ inches, and 24 inches in place of 18 inches; if of any other description of stone, to be three inches additional in thickness to the foregoing.
Provided that it shall not be necessary to erect two party walls in the case of two adjoining buildings erected at the same time, but that it shall be lawful to erect one common wall for both such buildings, but so that the ends of the bearing timber shall in no case approach nearer to each other or to the opposite side of the wall than 4½ inches.
Vol. XVIII., No. 60.
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