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vessel or receptacle other than those supplied by the Board shall be used in any earth-closet for the reception of night-soil. No earth-closet shall be erected within two feet of the boundary-line of any adjoining premises, or within two feet of any public or private street or public place, or within ten feet of any dwelling. Every building containing an earth-closet shall be a substantial structure to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Nuisances. It shall be enclosed on all sides, and be provided with a door placed in the position best adapted to conceal the interior of the closet. Such building shall be provided with approved means of lighting and ventilation, and shall be constructed with ready means of access for the removal and replacement of the night-soil pan.

4. Every privy shall be a substantial structure, to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Nuisances, shall be enclosed on all sides, and shall be provided with a door or screen, placed in such a position as effectively to conceal the interior of the privy, and shall be kept always in substantial repair.

5. It shall be the duty of the owner and also of the occupier of any premises in which any closet, urinal, drain, trap, sink, gully, waste-pipe, ventilation-shaft, or other sanitary appliance are erected or constructed to keep the same and all appliances connected therewith in good and substantial repair, and good and efficient working-order, and to keep all such things and appliances in a thoroughly clean and sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Nuisances.

6. In any case in which there shall be on any premises any earth-closets, privy, urinal, or cesspool contrary to the provisions of these by-laws, it shall be lawful for the Inspector of Nuisances to serve a written notice upon the owner of such premises, or upon the occupier thereof, or upon both the owner and occupier, as he, the Inspector of Nuisances, shall think fit, calling upon the person or persons so served to cause such closet, privy, urinal, or cesspool to conform in every respect to the provisions of these present by-laws, and to have connected therewith all appliances required by these by-laws, within one calendar month from the time of such service. If any such notice is not complied with, every person served therewith as aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of an offence against these by-laws.

7. (a.) Every person who shall do, or cause or procure to be done, or be knowingly concerned in doing, anything contrary to or otherwise than as provided by these by-laws, or who shall omit to do or cause or procure to be done anything hereinbefore required to be done by him, or which he is hereinbefore required to cause or procure to be done, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against these by-laws.

(b). Every person who shall execute, provide, or do, or cause or procure to be executed, provided, or done, or knowingly concerned in executing, providing, or doing, any work, material, or thing contrary to or otherwise than as required by these by-laws; and every person who shall omit to execute, provide, or do, or omit to cause or procure to be executed, provided, or done, any work, material, or thing hereinbefore required to be executed, provided, or done by him, or which he is hereinbefore required to cause or procure to be executed, provided, or done, and who shall not within a reasonable stated time after being served with notice in writing by the Inspector of Nuisances (which notice he is hereby authorised to send, and which notice may be renewed), pull down and remove such work, material, or thing, or alter and amend the same so as to comply with these by-laws, or (as the case may be) execute, provide, or do, or cause or procure to be executed, provided, or done, such work, material, or thing so required by these by-laws, shall be deemed guilty of a further offence against these by-laws.

8. The occupier of every premises situate within any township shall at least once in every week cleanse, or cause or allow to be cleansed, the earth-closet or privy belonging to such premises.

9. No faecal matter from any earth-closet or privy shall be buried or disposed of by the occupier of the premises to which such earth-closet or privy shall belong, excepting with the approval and to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Nuisances.

10. No person shall contract for or be engaged in the removal or disposal of faecal matter from any earth-closet or privy unless and until he shall have obtained the permission of the Board to do so. Any such permission may be at any time withdrawn.

11. Any person engaged in the removal or disposal of faecal matter shall make such charges for his services as to the Board shall seem fair and reasonable, and the Board shall approve a scale of charges to be made for such services before granting any such permission as aforesaid. The Board may from time to time vary any scale of charges so approved as aforesaid.

12. Every person so engaged as aforesaid shall dispose of all faecal matter as directed by the Board or by the Inspector of Nuisances.

13. Every occupier of any premises shall allow any person engaged, with the permission of the Board, in the removal or disposal of faecal matter to cleanse the earth-closet or privy of such premises once at least in every week.

14. Whenever any person engaged, with the permission of the Board, in the removal of faecal matter shall cleanse any earth-closet or privy, the occupier of the premises to which such earth-closet or privy shall belong shall pay to such person such sum as shall be payable for the cleansing of such earth-closet or privy according to the scale of charges approved by the Board.

15. Every occupier of any premises required so to do by the Inspector of Nuisances shall, within a reasonable time after being so required, provide on his premises a water-tight cesspool, in such position and of such size and description as shall be specified or may be approved by the Inspector of Nuisances, and such occupier shall cause to be deposited therein, and not elsewhere, all urine and faecal matter from his premises, and any other matter or liquid which, in the opinion of the Inspector of Nuisances, ought to be deposited therein. Such cesspool shall be cleansed and the contents thereof removed in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as if such cesspool were an earth-closet, and the provisions of any by-laws in force in the district affecting earth-closets shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to cesspools under this by-law.

16. The occupier of any premises shall apply to the contents of any earth-closet, privy, or cesspool such disinfectants, in such quantities, at such times, and in such manner as the Inspector of Nuisances may from time to time direct.

17. Every person who shall commit, or permit or suffer to be committed, a breach of any of the foregoing by-laws shall be liable to a penalty *not exceeding five pounds for every such breach; and where such breach is continuing, every person committing, or permitting or suffering to be committed, such breach shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five shillings and not more than twenty shillings for every day or fraction of a day during which such breach shall continue, or be permitted or suffered to continue; but in no case shall the accumulated penalty imposed on one conviction for a continuing breach exceed ten pounds.

18. All penalties incurred for breaches of the foregoing by-laws shall be imposed, enforced, recovered, and appropriated as provided by sections 86, 87, and 88 of “The Public Health Act, 1876.”

19. All notices sent under these by-laws shall be deemed duly served if given to the person for whom they are intended personally, or if sent to him through the post, addressed or left for him at his usual or last known place of abode or business, or if affixed to any part of any premises to which such notice shall relate.

20. The foregoing by-laws, upon their being gazetted, shall come into force in that part of the Wirokino Road District which is comprised within the following boundaries, which part of the said district is hereby declared to be a township within the meaning and for the purposes of the foregoing by-laws, and for such purposes to be known as the Township of Levin.

Boundaries of the Township of Levin.

Starting at the point of junction of Winchester Street with Makomako Road; thence in a north-easterly direction to the north-east of Section 47, Levin Town; thence in a south-easterly direction to the south-east corner of Section 48; thence along Queenswood Road to its junction with Kawhiu Road; thence along the Kawhiu Road in a north-westerly direction until it touches Werawera Road; thence along the Werawera Road until it joins the Makomako Road West; thence in a westerly direction until it touches Mabel Street; thence along Mabel Street until it crosses Keepa Street and strikes in a direct line the County Road; thence in a south-easterly direction until it touches the south-east corner of Section 46, Horowhenua Village Settlement; thence in a south-westerly direction until it touches the south-west corner of Section 1, Horowhenua Village Settlement; thence in a south-easterly direction until it touches an imaginary line with Winchester Street; thence in a north-easterly direction until it touches the starting-point.

The common seal of the inhabitants of the Wirokino Road District was hereunto affixed, in pursuance of the resolution of the Wirokino Road Board passed on the 23rd day of October, 1897, by the Wirokino Road Board, in our presence.

Jno. Davies,
Chairman, Wirokino Road Board.

E. H. Snow,
Clerk, Wirokino Road Board.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order has been duly passed in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

Ernest H. Snow,
Clerk to the Wirokino Road Board.