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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1169

1st. Throwing any glass, filth, dirt, rubbish, or
other matter of a similar nature upon any street,
footway, court, alley, or public place whatsoever.

2nd. Riding, driving, leading, or wheeling any
barrow, cart, dray, or carriage upon or along any
footpath without permission from the Town Council
to do so.

3rd. Placing any timber, bricks, stones, or other
building materials upon any footway, channel, surface
drain, or carriage-road, or open or public place with-
out such permission as aforesaid.

4th. Burning any shavings, straw, or other mate-
ials or matter upon any footway, carriage-road, or
open or public place without such permission as
aforesaid.

5th. Leaving any inflammable materials or matter
in any public shed or place, or on any open space
near any building, without such permission as afore-
said.

6th. Drawing or trailing any sledge, timber, or
other material upon any footway or carriage-road,
to the injury of such footway or carriage-road, so as
to be unable to have the full control of them.

7th. Placing any placard or other document, writ-
ing, or painting on, or otherwise defacing any house
or building, or any wall, fence, or lamp-post, railway-
post, or gate, without the consent of the occupier or
owner thereof.

8th. Opening any drain or sewer, or removing the
surface of any footway or carriage-road without
authority from the Town Council to do so.

9th. Neglecting to clean any private yardway, pas-
sage, or avenue, by which neglect a nuisance, by
offensive smell or otherwise, is caused.

10th. Furiously or negligently riding or driving
through any public street or thoroughfare.

11th. Making any cellar door or other opening
from the footway of any street or public thorough- are without the consent or not in accordance with
the direction of the Town Council.

12th. Any person laying out or opening any street
or building therein, and omitting, during the opera-
tions necessary for forming such street or for building
therein, to take all such precautions for guarding
against injury to the passengers along such street as
may be necessary or as may be directed by the Town
Council.

13th. Any person placing any obstruction upon
any street line whereby life or limb is likely to be
endangered.

14th. Any person leaving any hole, excavation, or
dangerous formation in or near any public place,
street, or thoroughfare, without fencing or enclosing
the same, or without keeping a light burning upon
such formation from sunset to sunrise.

15th. Any person neglecting or omitting to keep
in good repair any rail, gate, fence, or cover over
or about any area or entrance to any cellar or other
place, or keeping open for more than a reasonable
time for taking in or out any articles any entrance to
any area, cellar, or other place (such area or entrance
opening into or upon or near any public street, road,
thoroughfare, or other public place).

16th. Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or wag-
gon without having or holding proper and sufficient
reins, and no competent person having charge of the
animal or animals drawing the same.

17th. 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 road or 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 practicable, on the
right or off side of such other vehicle or animal.

18th. 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 of them.

19th. Any person who shall act as driver or have
the sole charge of more than one vehicle on any
public road or street, unless in cases where two
of such carriages, and no more, shall be drawn
each by one horse only, and the horse of the hinder
of such carriages shall be attached by a sufficient
rein to the back of the foremost of such vehicles.

20th. Driver or guard of public vehicle for con-
veyance of passengers wilfully delaying on the road,
using any abusive or insulting language to any
passenger, or, by reason of intoxication, negligence,
or other misconduct, causing injury to or endanger-
ing the safety of the persons or property of any pas-
senger or other person.

21st. 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 Town of Avenal.

22nd. Any person leaving upon any public street
or thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other
vehicle without any horse or animal harnessed
thereto, unless in consequence of some accident
having occurred.

23rd. Any person having any iron, timber, or
boards laid across any vehicle going along any street
or thoroughfare, so that either end shall project more
than two (2) feet beyond the wheels or sides of such
vehicle, without the permission of the Town Council.

24th. Any person suffering or allowing any waste
or impure water, offensive vegetable or animal mat-
ter, or other matter to remain in any cellar or place
within any building or premises in the town, 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
said town, or shall allow the contents of any water-
closet, privy, or cesspool to overflow or to soak there-
from, so as to be offensive.

25th. All drains under footways shall be con-
structed with iron pipes, drain tiles, or box drains,
not exceeding three (3) inches in diameter, and shall
be laid with fall of four (4) inches in the
whole width of the footway, the level at the dis-
charge mouth being the level of the water-channels.

26th. The curbing shall be neatly cut with a
hole of the same size as the outside diameter of
the pipe to receive the end of the pipe, and re-laid to
line and level.

27th. The footway opened up for the reception of
the pipe shall be made good with the same material
of which it is constructed, to the satisfaction of
the Town Surveyor.

28th. No drain under a footway, and discharging
into the channel, shall be laid or used for any other
purpose than for carrying off surface-water, whether
from roof or yards.

29th. Every drain from a house or building con-
nected with the main or branch drain or sewer shall
be made of flanged earthenware or metal pipes,
or wooden box-drains of six (6) inches in diameter,
and placed at such level or inclination as the
Town Surveyor shall direct, and shall have a sunk
box at its source, the bottom of which shall be fixed
at a level of twelve (12) inches below the level
of the drain, and must be made in accordance with a
drawing and specification deposited at the office of
the Town Clerk.

30th. No crossing shall be less than ten (10) feet
long in the direction of the street, nor of greater



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🏘️ Confirmation of By-laws for the Borough of Avenal (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
11 December 1877
By-laws, Public conduct, Streets, Drainage, Nuisance, Avenal, Regulations