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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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Every person who shall light any bonfire, tar-
    barrel, or firework upon or within sixty yards of any


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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1876, No 75





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🏘️ Continuation of Greytown Local Board By-Laws: Hawker's and Pedlar's License Schedule (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
1 January 1876
By-laws, Hawker license, Pedlar license, Schedule, Greytown

🏘️ Greytown Local Board By-Law regarding Furze Fences

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By-laws, Furze fences, Township limits, Suburban sections, Fencing regulations

🏘️ Greytown Local Board By-Laws concerning Chimneys and Fire Safety

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
By-laws, Chimneys, Fire, Hay stacks, Bonfires, Penalties, Regulations