THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 929

or obstructing any footpath or carriage road,
whether by allowing any cart or animal to
remain across such footpath or carriage road, or
by placing goods thereon or otherwise.
XII. Furiously or negligently riding or driving
through any public street, place, or thorough-are.
XIII. Making any cellar, door, or other opening
from the footpath of any street or 'public
thoroughfare, without the consent or not in
accordance with the directions of the Commis-
sioners.
XIV. Any person placing any obstruction upon
any street line, whereby life or limb is likely to
be endangered.
XV. Discharging any firearms, squib, cracker,
rocket, or other firework within the district
without permission from the Board, provided
that the provision aforesaid as to discharging
firearms shall not apply to any Justice of the
Peace, or any person in Her Majesty's military
or naval service, or any member of the police or
peace officer, or any member of a recognized
Volunteer corps, or any special constable, or
any person actually in pursuit of any felon or
offender.
XVI. Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever,
or riding any animal, and, when meeting any
other vehicle or animal, not keeping on the left
or near side of the street, or, when passing any
other vehicle or animal going in the same
direction, not going or passing, or not allowing
any person desirous so to do to pass, when prac-
ticable, on the right or off-side of such other
vehicle or animal.
XVII. Any driver of any horse or vehicle injuring
any person or property whatsoever by negligence,
or by driving on the wrong side of the road, or
by being away from his horse or cattle, so as to
be unable to have the full control over them.
XVIII. Any person turning loose any horse or
cattle upon any public street, or allowing any
animal or animals to wander on any public
street or thoroughfare within the district.
XIX. Any person leaving upon any public street
or thoroughfare any plough, barrow, cart, or
other vehicle, without any horse harnessed
thereto, unless in consequence of some accident
having occurred.
XX. Any person having any iron, timber, or
boards laid across any vehicle going along any
street or thoroughfare, so that either end should
project more than two feet beyond the wheels or
sides of such vehicle.
XXI. Any person destroying, damaging, polluting
or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice, pipe,
pump, watercourse or fountain.
XXII. Any person suffering or allowing any waste
or impure water or other matter to remain in
any cellar or place within any building or pre-
mises in the district, or allowing any waste or
impure water or other matter to run or flow
from any such building or premises upon, or
over, or be on any carriage road or footway or
other place, whether public or private, within
the district, or shall allow the contents of any
water-closet, privy, or cesspool, to overflow or
soak therefrom, so as to be offensive.
XXIII. Keeping any disreputable house or house
of ill-fame, or having the control or management
of the same, or being a reputed occupier or in-
mate of any such house.
XXIV. When any building materials, rubbish, or
other things are laid, or any hole made in any
street or footway, whether the same be done by
order or authority of the Board or not, the per-
son causing such materials or other things to be
laid, or such hole to be made, shall, at his own
expense, cause a sufficient light to be fixed in a
proper place upon or near the same, and con-
tinue such light every night, from sunset to
sunrise, while such materials or hole remain;
and such person shall cause, at his own expense,
such materials or other things and such hole to
be sufficiently fenced and enclosed until such
materials or other things are removed, or the
hole filled up or otherwise made secure; and
every such person who fails so to light, fence, or
enclose such materials or other things, or such
hole, shall, for every such offence, forfeit a sum
not exceeding ten pounds sterling, and a further
sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day
while such default is continued.
XXV. That no slaughter-house be allowed within
the district.
XXVI. That no beast, pig, or sheep be allowed to
be slaughtered within the district, where the
same may be deemed a nuisance.
XXVII. That the footpaths in the townships be
9 feet on the chain roads, and 5 feet on the
half-chain roads.
XXVIII. That all verandahs erected over foot-
paths be at least 8 feet high, and to extend to
curbing of footpaths; and that no verandah be
erected without permission from the Board.
XXIX. Any person being the owner or tenant of
any building abutting on any street where the
footpath has been formed, who, by omitting or
neglecting to secure and maintain the founda-
tion of such building, causes or allows the
formed footpath to fall in or be otherwise
damaged.
XXX. Any person who shall obstruct any officer
or other person employed by the Board in the
performance of anything which such officer or
other person is or may be required or authorized
to do by or on behalf of the Board.

Building Regulations.

1. Any person wishing to erect a verandah over
   any public footpath must, previous to commencing
   such erection, obtain from the Secretary of the Board
   a written permission to do so.
2. Any verandah hereafter erected contrary to the
   regulations and provisions herein contained, shall be
   deemed a public nuisance, and as such shall be re-
   moved at the expense of the party causing such
   erection.

Streets, Lanes, Right-of-ways, and Footpaths.

1. No streets that may be laid off or made for the
   use of the public through private land within the
   district shall be less than one hundred links wide;
   and no lane or right-of-way shall exceed twelve links
   wide.

Swine and Cesspools.

1. It shall not be lawful to keep any swine within
   the limits of two hundred links of a public highway.
2. No privy or cesspool shall be emptied, nor any
   nightsoil emptied away, nor any offensive liquor or
   matter of any kind whatsoever pumped out of or re-
   moved from any house, cellar, or premises within the
   district except within the hours of midnight and
   six o'clock a.m.

Hawkers.

1. Every person who shall exercise or carry on the
   business of hawker, pedlar, petty chapman, or any
   other trading person carrying to sell, or exposing for
   sale, any goods, wares, or merchandise within the
   district, shall be required to take out a license.
2. Such license shall be issued by the District
   Clerk to any person applying for the same on pay-