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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
ment of one pound one shilling sterling, and such
applications shall be in writing, and signed by any
two ratepayers and by the applicant.
3. Every such license shall be in the form in the
Schedule hereto annexed, and the same shall be in
force for six months from the date of the issue thereof.
4. This regulation shall not extend to prevent any
person from selling or offering for sale fish, fruit,
farm or dairy produce, in the public streets or
thoroughfares, or selling or exposing for sale any
sorts of goods or merchandise in any public market,
or any other public place set apart for the like
purpose.
5. If any hawker, pedlar, or petty chapman holding
such license as aforesaid be convicted of selling stolen
goods or merchandise, he shall forfeit his license.
The District Clerk shall keep a register of names
and places of abode of all persons to whom such
licenses shall be issued, and such register may be
inspected by any person at reasonable times.
SCHEDULE.
Hawker's and Pedlar's License, Greytown Local Board.
KNOW all men by these presents that
, having this day paid the sum of
, of
,
is hereby licensed to exercise the business or calling of a hawker
and pedlar from this date until the
day of
next.
Dated the
day of
, 187 .
Furze Fences.
- It shall not be lawful for any person to make or
place, or to keep or continue, any fence of furze or
other like material within the limits of the township,
save and except in or upon suburban sections. Every
owner or occupier of any premises who shall make
or place any such fence, or cause such fence to be
made or placed, and every owner or occupier of any
premises who, after fourteen days' notice from the
Board to remove any such fence thereto appertaining,
or who shall suffer any such or any part thereof to
remain, shall forfeit, on conviction for such offence, a
sum not exceeding five pounds, and in every such
case a sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day
after any such conviction during which such fence
shall continue. - All fences of furze, brushwood, or other like
material upon suburban sections within the township
shall be kept thoroughly trimmed to a height not
exceeding five feet; and every owner or occupier of
any premises who, after fourteen days' notice from
the Board, shall neglect to trim or cause to be
trimmed any such fence thereto appertaining shall
forfeit, on conviction for such offence, a sum not ex-
ceeding five pounds, and in every such case a sum
not exceeding forty shillings for every day after any
such conviction during which such fence shall remain
untrimmed. - No fence of furze, brushwood, or other like
material shall be allowed to remain within forty feet
of any building within the township, and every
owner or occupier of any premises who, after four-
teen days' notice from the Board, shall neglect to
move or cause to be removed any such fence or
portion thereof thereto appertaining shall forfeit, on
conviction for any such offence, a sum not exceeding
five pounds, and in every such case a sum not
exceeding forty shillings for every day after any such
conviction during which such fence shall continue. - Every person who wilfully sets or causes to be
set on fire any chimney, flue, smoke vent, or stove
pipe (herein called in common, "chimney") shall
forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds sterling:
Provided always that nothing herein contained shall
exempt the person so setting or causing to be set on
fire any chimney from liability to be informed against
or prosecuted before any Criminal Court for such act
as for an indictable offence. - If any chimney accidentally catch or be on fire,
the person occupying or using the premises in which
such chimney is situated shall forfeit a sum not
exceeding forty shillings: Provided always that such
forfeiture shall not be incurred if such person prove
to the satisfaction of the Justice before whom the
case is heard that such fire was in no wise owing to
the omission, neglect, or carelessness, whether with
respect to cleansing such chimney or otherwise, of
himself or his servant. - It shall be lawful for the Board from time to
time to make regulations for all or any of the pur-
poses following, that is to say,-
(1.) For prescribing the distance from any ad-
joining land, or from any building within
which it shall not be lawful to make or keep
any stack of hay, corn, straw, or other produce,
if not placed under roof or cover, and the like
where placed under roof or cover, and for
prohibiting or restraining the use for such
covering of such inflammable materials as shall
be described in such regulations.
(2.) For prescribing the distance from any ad-
joining land, or from any street or public
place, or from any building within which it
shall not be lawful to deposit such combustible
materials as shall be specified in the regula-
tion, or save in some properly constructed
fireplace within some building to make or
light any fire.
And every such regulation may be made to apply to
the whole or separately to any part or parts of the
district described by boundaries in such by-law, and
may provide as to the subject-matter thereof, either
absolutely or with relation to the consent of the
Council or of the proper officer of the Board, to be
given or withheld in any case to be in question under
such regulation. - Every person who shall make or place any stack
of hay, corn, straw, or other produce, or place as or
for the covering of any such stack any inflammable
material, or deposit any combustible material, or
light any fire contrary in any such case to any
regulation under this subdivision; and every occupier
of any premises whereon any stack, or any such
covering of a stack shall be, or any combustible
materials have been deposited, if the same, though
lawfully made, placed or deposited before the coming
into force of any such regulation shall be there con-
trary to the tenor of such regulation, who shall not,
within seven days after notice from the Board so to
do, remove such stack, covering or materials, or who
shall suffer to remain any such stack, covering, or
materials unlawfully made, placed, or deposited before
the coming into force of such regulation, shall forfeit,
on conviction of such offence, a sum not exceeding
five pounds sterling, and in every such case a further
sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after
any such conviction during which such stack, cover-
ing, or materials shall so continue. - Every person who wilfully sets fire to any in-
flammable matter whatsoever in the open air, without
having given notice in writing to the occupiers of the
land adjoining to the land upon which such matter
shall be, and also to the Chairman of the Board, of
his intention to do so, or within twenty-four hours
after the giving of such notices, or between the hours
of four in the afternoon of any day and eight in the
morning of the following day, shall forfeit a sum not
exceeding five pounds sterling. - Every person who shall light any bonfire, tar-
barrel, or firework upon or within sixty yards of any
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Continuation of Greytown Local Board By-Laws: Hawker's and Pedlar's License Schedule
(continued from previous page)
ποΈ Provincial & Local Government1 January 1876
By-laws, Hawker license, Pedlar license, Schedule, Greytown
ποΈ Greytown Local Board By-Law regarding Furze Fences
ποΈ Provincial & Local GovernmentBy-laws, Furze fences, Township limits, Suburban sections, Fencing regulations
ποΈ Greytown Local Board By-Laws concerning Chimneys and Fire Safety
ποΈ Provincial & Local GovernmentBy-laws, Chimneys, Fire, Hay stacks, Bonfires, Penalties, Regulations
NZ Gazette 1876, No 75