Mar. 7.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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10. Manufacturers and other consumers, 1s. 8d. per 1,000
    gallons.
11. Minimum charge, 5,000 gallons per quarter.
12. Applications for water shall be made at the office of
    the said Road Board, and all necessary forms shall be ob-
    tained there.
13. Water-rates for such supply shall be payable half-
    yearly in advance, and new applications for service shall be
    accompanied by the tender of a sum equal to the rate for
    the broken period of the current half-year, commencing
    three days after the date of application; except the payments
    be made within two months prior to end of half-year, in
    which case payment shall be made to end of the second
    half-year.
14. Temporary taps as per agreement with the Water
    Committee.
15. At stand-pipes, any quantity not exceeding 400 gal-
    lons, 3s.
16. Hose for gardens or other purposes must be paid for
    by meter, and no hose-attachment allowed except by meter.
17. Stables, 10s. per horse per annum for the maximum
    number kept at any time during such period, unless by
    meter.
18. Cow, mule, or ass, 5s. each, unless by meter.
19. Builders shall be supplied by meter at 2s. 6d. per
    1,000 gallons; they shall deposit the cost of the meter,
    which shall be retained as security that the meter is left in
    good order. No rent shall be charged for meter. Minimum,
    10,000 gallons per quarter or any portion of a quarter.
20. Rent of meters, if supplied by the Board, 15 per cent.
    on cost, payable quarterly in advance. A deposit of the
    value of the meter may, if deemed necessary, be demanded
    from applicants; but the Board reserve the right to refuse
    to supply meters to private houses.
21. Fee for cutting off and turning on water-supply,
    5s. each.
22. Exceptional cases for supply of piping outside of
    streets with mains, in the manner as decided by the Water
    Committee.

METERS.

23. Rates by meter shall be payable quarterly.
24. All supplies other than to private dwellings must be
    by meter.
25. Any consumer using the water shall, on delivery of
    written notice, provide a meter to gauge his supply. Meters
    shall be fixed in such places as the Board may direct, and
    be charged as mentioned in scale of charges.
26. Should any meter be out of repair, or cease to register,
    or register inaccurately, the officer duly appointed by the
    Board shall estimate the consumption of the average of the
    previous quarter charged to the consumer, who shall be
    liable to pay accordingly, and such decision shall be final.
27. All water-meters must be enclosed in a wooden box,
    and the keys of both meters and boxes, duly labelled with
    the name of the owner, must be lodged at the office of
    water-supply. If required by the consumer, the box may
    have a glass front. Locks of meters to be uniform, and
    supplied by the Board at the expense of meter-consumer.

PLUMBERS.

28. Competent plumbers may be licensed by the said
    Board to lay pipes and to do any work in connection with
    water-supply on payment of an annual fee of £1 1s. Every
    such plumber, on receiving his license and making the ne-
    cessary deposit, shall sign an agreement binding himself to
    comply with the conditions contained in the by-laws of the
    said Board relating to him, and no person but those duly
    licensed by the Board shall be allowed to attach or alter
    any service-pipe, or in any other way interfere with pipes,
    taps, cocks, meters, or any matters or things connected with
    the water-supply.
29. Every plumber shall forward to the water-supply
    office a monthly return (on forms supplied to him) of the
    work he has done, and, failing to do so, shall be either guilty
    of an offence, or his license suspended until such return is
    duly forwarded.
30. No licensed plumbers shall do any work connected
    with the water-supply without giving at least one clear
    day's notice thereof and receiving written authority to do
    such work from the Engineer or other officer appointed by
    the Board.
31. Plumbers shall be responsible for all damage done or
    caused by them in doing any work whatever, or through bad
    workmanship or inferior material; and, in the event of any
    such damage, bad workmanship, or neglect, they shall be
    liable to have their licenses cancelled without any refund of
    license-fee.
32. All work shall be done to the approval and satisfac-
    tion of the Waterworks Engineer or other officer appointed
    by the Board, and must be passed by him before the water
    shall be turned on at the main.
33. All drawing-cocks used must be of the best quality,
    and must be those known as Fiddian's best screw-down
    with a wood or iron box under lock and key.
34. In addition to the valve-cock at the junction with the
    main in each service, a second valve-cock shall be placed in
    a strong wooden box within the boundary of the property,
    supplied at the expense of the consumer.
35. In no case will the use of instantaneous closing-taps,
    valves, or cocks be permitted. Galvanised-iron piping of
    an approved quality only will be allowed for external ser-
    vices, and of the requisite sizes suitable to the require-
    ments of the tenements, as shall be determined by the En-
    gineer or other officer appointed by the Board.
    35A. All pipes and taps required to lay on the water-
    service will be supplied by the Board at schedule prices, to
    be seen at the office of the Board.

REPAIRS.

36. Any person neglecting to repair any service-pipe,
    meter, tap, or other fixture used in the supply of water,
    after having received notice from any officer of the Board,
    shall render himself liable to have the water cut off, and
    shall be guilty of an offence.

WASTE OF WATER.

37. Any person who causes or permits any wilful, negli-
    gent, or unnecessary waste or use of water to take place, by
    allowing a cistern or other vessel to overflow, or the water to
    run from any tap, cock, hose, valve, pipe-work, or engine,
    shall be guilty of an offence.
38. Overflow-pipes from baths will not be permitted un-
    less the water to such baths is supplied by meter.

RATES IN ARREAR.

39. At the expiration of fourteen days from the date of
    any water-rate being due, and after delivery of notice on the
    premises to which such water is laid on (excepting tempo-
    rary supplies, which may be cut off after twenty-four
    hours' notice), it shall be competent for the officers of the
    Board to cut off any such supply in whatever manner may
    be deemed advisable.

WRONG OR FALSE INFORMATION.

40. Any person who shall give to any officer of the Board
    false information upon any matter pertaining to water-sup-
    ply shall be guilty of an offence.

PENALTIES.

If any person does any of the following things, —
41. Wilfully injures or destroys any part of the water-
works:
42. Unlawfully draws off or diverts any water belonging to
the waterworks; wilfully or negligently allows any pipe or
apparatus on his premises to be out of repair so that water is
wasted, or alters any meter, or does or suffers any act where-
by his supply of water is improperly increased:
43. Not having agreed to be supplied with water from the
waterworks, takes any such water from the supply furnished
to another person:
44. Being supplied with water from the waterworks, sup-
plies another person who has not agreed to be so supplied
with, or permits him to take, any such water:
45. Obstructs any person acting under the authority of
the Board in doing anything which the Board is hereby em-
powered to do:
46. Opens the ground so as to uncover any pipe belonging
to the waterworks, or connects any pipe with such pipe with-
out giving the Board seven days' notice in writing of his
intention so to do:
47. Connects any pipe with a pipe belonging to the water-
works without giving the Board two days' notice in writing
of the day and hour he proposes to do so, or without having
obtained the permission of some person acting under the
authority of the Board in that behalf:
48. Connects any pipe with a pipe of the waterworks
except in the presence of, or contrary to, the direction of the
officer appointed by the Board to superintend the same,
unless such officer fails to attend at the time named in the
notice:
49. Connects with a pipe of the waterworks any pipe of a
strength or material not approved by the Board,
—he shall be liable to a penalty of not more than £20 for
each such offence, and to a further sum equal to the cost
incurred by the Board in repairing the injury done to any
part of the waterworks by any such act.
50. Any person who shall violate or fail to do or observe
any rules, matters, or things laid down in these by-laws, or
shall do that which he is not entitled or allowed to do under
the authority of these by-laws, shall be deemed guilty of an
offence, and for each such offence shall forfeit and pay any
sum not exceeding £5, and a further sum not exceeding £5
for every day during which such offence shall continue.

Passed by the Mount Eden Road Board at a meeting held
on the 2nd day of November, 1888, and confirmed by special