THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 111

FIFTH CLASS.
Every building containing 5,000 cubic feet, or
less than 5,000 cubic feet, shall belong to the
fifth class. Every shed open on all or any side,
erected on posts or piers, shall belong to the
fifth class, but if any side or part of any side
be enclosed by a new wall, or old wall, or by a
wall partly new and partly old, it shall be
classified according to its cubical contents.

CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDINGS.
36. The cubical contents of every building shall
include all external walls, party walls, internal walls,
and floors, but shall not include any cubical contents
below the level of the cellar floor, or other lowest
floors, or above the top of the wall-plate for receiving
the roof, nor the contents of any verandah or balcony.

37. In order to determine the fees payable for
    additions to any building already erected, or here-
    after to be erected, the cubical contents of such
    additions shall be added to the cubical content of the
    original building, and the total amount shall determine
    the class under which the fee is to be charged.

38. If in any building or addition to any building
    there shall be two or more separate houses, then each
    house shall be measured, classified, and charged for
    as a separate building, but only half the fee specified
    in the Schedule as due on a building of that class
    shall in such case be demanded and paid on each
    house.

39. The re-use of any old materials, floors, roofs,
    internal walls, or other parts in any new building,
    shall not prevent the said building from being classified
    as a new structure, although such old materials, floors,
    roofs, internal walls, or other parts may even have
    formed parts of a previous building on the same site.

FEES PAYABLE.
40. Before proceeding to erect, alter, add to, or
renew any building, or to execute any other work
placed under the control or supervision of the Borough
Council in these Regulations, the builder, owner, or
occupier shall pay to the Town Clerk of the Borough
of Timaru the fee due upon the same according to
the following Schedule:-

SCHEDULE OF FEES.

Class of Building.
Fees for new
Buildings.
£ s. d.
If the building be of 1st class 2 0 0
2nd ... ... ... 1 10 0
3rd ... ... ... 1 0 0
4th ... ... ... 0 10 0
5th ... ... ... 0 5 0

For every chimney built of
brick or stone for a steam-
engine, brewery, distillery,
or manufactory, provided
that such chimney be erected
subsequently to the building 0 10 0

FEES FOR SPECIAL DUTIES.
For inspecting a cutting into or an
alteration of any existing chimney
(except for the insertion of venti-
lators) £ s. d. 0 5 0

For inspecting any iron smoke funnel
erected for manufacturing purposes,
erected subsequently to the build-
ing ... ... ... 0 5 0

For inspecting every detached stove,
furnace, oven, close fire, or forge,
erected subsequently to the build-
ing ... ... ... 0 5 0

EXEMPTIONS FROM FEES.
The following buildings, or parts of buildings, shall
be exempt from the payment of fees, but shall not be
exempt from the operation of any other of these Regu-
lations:-Fowl-houses, privies, verandahs, porches,
greenhouses, conservatories, coal-sheds-in area not
exceeding 6 feet by 6 feet.

MODIFICATIONS.
41. If in the opinion of the Borough Council a
full compliance with these Regulations, or any of
them, would needlessly affect with injury the course
and operation of business, or be attended with great
loss and inconvenience to any persons without a
corresponding benefit to the community, the Borough
Council will on special application relax the strict
observance of any Regulation, or modify the same,
provided that such other terms as they may impose
be complied with by the applicant.

DISPUTES.
42. If any dispute shall arise between the Building
Surveyor and any persons respecting the meaning or
operation of these Regulations, the question at issue
shall be referred by the Building Surveyor to the
Borough Council for their adjudication.

The following Regulations shall apply exclusively
to and be enforced within the limits of the said inner
area of the said borough:-

NON-COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS.
43. It shall not be lawful to erect, alter, add to,
renew, or repair the external walls, party walls, and
chimneys of any building with metal, wood, or other
combustible material except as allowed for repairs in
section 45 of these Regulations.

OVENS, FURNACES, &C.
44. It shall not be lawful to erect any baker's or
confectioner's oven, sugar-boiler's or soap-boiler's
furnace, or any other oven, close fire, furnace, or
forge, unless the buildings within which they may be
erected, or as an addition to which they may be
erected, are wholly constructed of brick or stone.

REPAIRS.
45. The external walls composed of wood or iron
of any building already erected may be repaired
with the same materials of which they are composed,
provided that such repairs extend only to the outer
or inner lining of the walls, and not to the studding.

EAVES.
46. The external wall of any building hereafter
erected may be finished with projecting eaves, instead
of a parapet, provided that such external wall be dis-
tant at least 15 feet from any building detached
from that of which it forms a part.

CESSPOOLS.
47. Every cesspool sunk for the reception of drain-
age must be built all round with brick or stone walls
in mortar at least 8½ inches thick, but no cesspool
for the reception of drainage shall be constructed
unless there shall be existing, or shall be built, a
good and sufficient air-tight drain leading from such
drainage cesspool to a common sewer.

PRIVIES.
48. Every privy hereafter erected in the yard or
area of any building may be erected with walls of
wood or iron, but must be roofed with iron or slates,
or other incombustible material. All privies must
have a door, be properly enclosed, screened, and
fenced from public view, and be erected not less
than 10 feet distant from any adjacent dwelling-
house.