Num. 104. 1358

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1884.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1884.

Slaughterhouse. | By-Laws made by the Waitotara County Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1884.

THE following by-laws, made by the Waitotara County Council, are published in accordance with “The Counties Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1882.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT the by-laws of the Wanganui County Council relating to slaughterhouses be adopted by this Council, with clause 10 struck out.

By-laws relating to Slaughterhouses.

1. No cattle, large or small, shall be slaughtered within the county for the purposes of trade, as defined by clause 27 of “The Slaughterhouses Act, 1877,” except at some slaughterhouse licensed in that behalf by the Council under the 23rd section of “The Slaughterhouses Act, 1877,” under a penalty not exceeding £10 for each and every head of such cattle so slaughtered.

2. Any person, or number of persons trading in copartnership, desirous of obtaining a license for a slaughterhouse, shall apply for the same in writing, addressed to the Clerk of the Council, and delivered at the office of the Council at least one month before the meeting of the Council at which such application is desired to be heard; and such application shall state specifically the locality and accommodation of the buildings desired to be licensed, and the arrangements for insuring cleanliness therein. Any public notice of any such application as may not be for the renewal of a previously existing license shall be given as required by the 24th section of the said Act by advertising such application once in each week in one or more newspapers having general circulation in the county for one month immediately preceding the date of the meeting of the Council at which such application is intended to be made.

3. The sum to be paid to the Council before the delivery of any license which the Council may decide to issue shall be £10 by the year, and every license shall (unless cancelled for the breach of any by-law) remain in force until the thirty-first day of December next ensuing; and any license issued in respect of a part of a year shall be subject to the payment of such sum, not exceeding £10, as the Council may, in each instance, determine.

4. Any person, or number of persons trading in copartnership, to whom a license shall have been granted prior to December, 1879, and who shall be desirous of renewing the same, shall apply in writing during the month of December in each year for the renewal thereof, without the necessity of publicly notifying such application; and any such license as the Council may decide to grant shall be issuable during the last week of December in each year on payment of the sum of £10 as before mentioned, subject to the carrying into effect of such alterations or means for insuring cleanliness and good management as may be required in writing on the issue of such license by the Council.

5. The skins, hides, and fleeces of all animals slaughtered in any slaughterhouse licensed under these by-laws shall be allowed to remain until disposed of in the ordinary way of trade in the same condition as they were in when the animals were received at such slaughterhouse; and an entry shall be made in every instance in the book directed to be kept for that purpose of all earmarks, brands, and of any peculiarity on any such skins, hides, and fleeces; and any person destroying, altering, obliterating, or effacing in any respect any earmarks or brand on any skin, hide, or fleece shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding £5.

6. Every slaughterhouse shall be subject to the inspection at all hours of the officer appointed by the Council as Inspector, and all requisitions made by him in writing, and delivered to the person in charge or left on the premises, shall, within a time to be limited in that behalf, be strictly fulfilled by the person in charge thereof, or by the licensee or licensees; and in default thereof such person in charge, or the licensee or licensees, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10; and on the continued failure to observe such requisitions the Council may cancel any license in respect of such slaughterhouse, and all fees paid in respect thereof shall be absolutely forfeited.

7. The Council may, by their Inspector, and with such assistance as may be necessary, proceed in case of such failure or neglect on the part of the person in charge of any slaughterhouse, or the licensee or licensees, to abate any nuisance existing therein or in connection therewith, and do