Oct. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1725

Street to the western side of the Panmure Road; thence proceeding in a northerly direction in a straight line to the southern corner of the Canal Reserve at its junction with the Panmure Road; thence proceeding in a westerly direction in a straight line along the southern boundary of the Canal Reserve to the western side of the Great South Road; thence proceeding along the western side of the Great South Road to the north-eastern corner of Lot 2, part 269A, Fairburn's claim; thence proceeding in a straight line in a westerly direction to the north-western corner of said allotment; thence proceeding in a southerly direction in a straight line along the western boundaries of Lots 2, 1, across the Canal Reserve; thence proceeding in a southerly direction along the western boundary of Lot 269A aforesaid; thence proceeding in an easterly direction in a straight line to the north-western corner of Lot 12 of part of Lot 269A aforesaid; thence proceeding in a southerly direction in a straight line along the western boundaries of lots numbered 12 to 1 consecutively of Lot 269A aforesaid, to the north-eastern corner of the public-school ground; thence proceeding in a straight line in a westerly direction to the north-western corner of said school-ground; thence proceeding in a southerly direction in a straight line along the western boundary of said school-ground to the northern boundary of Lot 16, part Lot 269A, Fairburn's claim; thence proceeding in a straight line in a westerly direction along the northern boundaries of Lots 16 and 27, part Lot 269A, Fairburn's claim; thence proceeding in a southerly direction in a straight line along the western boundary of said Lot 27, across the Station Road, to the north-western corner of Victoria Street, and along the western side of Victoria Street in a straight line to the south-western corner of Lot 3, part 269A, Fairburn's claim; thence proceeding in a straight line to the Nixon Monument; thence proceeding in a northerly direction along the western side of the Great South Road, and across the Great South Road in an easterly direction to the starting-point—or in or upon all other allotments of land of not less than half an acre in extent in any part of the said road district.

5. The Board shall make such provision as it shall think fit for the periodical removal from any and every dwelling-house, or other tenement used as a dwelling within the above-mentioned prescribed area of the Otahuhu Road District, at the expense of the owner or occupier thereof, of any night-soil, dung, slops, filth, refuse, or rubbish of any kind; and no person shall remove nightsoil from the said prescribed area without a license from the Board.

6. The Inspector of Nuisances and Sanitary Inspector for the time being appointed by the Board, or any other person or persons who may be appointed by the Board for the purposes of these by-laws, shall have power to enter into or upon any building or land within the Otahuhu Road District for the purpose of effecting any such removal as in the last-preceding section specified, or for examining the condition of any privy, drain, or closet-pan, or for cleansing, constructing, altering, or repairing same.

7. Every privy or closet shall have a watertight box of a size not more than 3 cubic feet, and the occupier of the premises shall cause earth, ashes, lime, or other deodorising substance to be used daily.

8. No person shall permit any back-yard or premises in his or her occupation within the district to become a nuisance by reason of offensive smells or accumulation of offensive matter thereon.

9. No person shall keep, or allow or suffer or permit to be kept, swine or pigs on any allotment of land less than half an acre in extent, and no pig-sty or receptacle for pig-swil shall be allowed within 90 ft. of any dwellinghouse, or 50 ft. of any road or by-way.

10. Every person who causes or permits to run from any manufactory or other establishment for the boiling or preparing of any animal matter, or any brewery, slaughter-house, butcher's shop, or any dunghill or other receptacle, or from any inn or building whatsoever, into or upon any street, public or private, or any footway or channel, and every occupier of any land or premises who causes or permits to run from such land or premises into or upon any such street, footway, or channel, any offensive liquid or matter shall, for every day during which any such liquid or matter shall so run, forfeit a sum not exceeding £5.

11. Any person breaking, or failing or neglecting to comply with, the above by-laws Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, or any of them, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 for each offence.

Passed by the Road Board of the said Otahuhu Road District on the 25th day of August, 1898.

TOM C. P. WHITELY,
Chairman.

WM. L. LOCKHART,
Clerk.

I hereby certify that the annexed by-laws were passed by special order of the Road Board of the Otahuhu Road Dis-

trict on the 25th day of August, 1898, all the requirements of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” having been duly complied with.

Dated this 1st day of September, 1898.

WM. L. LOCKHART,
Clerk, Otahuhu Road Board.

Special Order made by the Whatdupoko Road Board, County of Cook.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th October, 1898.

THE following special order, made by the Whatapoko Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1886.”

J. CARROLL.

WHATAUPOKO ROAD BOARD.

Special order made by the Whatapoko Road Board at a meeting held on the 8th day of October, 1898, namely:—

That the following by-laws and regulations for the conservation of health and public convenience in the Whatapoko Road District, as duly advertised (in brief), be now passed, confirmed, and adopted in form of special order, namely:—

Whatapoko Road District Board By-laws and Regulations for the Conservation of Health and Convenience within the Whatapoko Road District, made under and in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and “The Public Health Act, 1876.”

In pursuance of the powers vested in Road Boards under and by virtue of the above Acts, the Whatapoko District Road Board hereby ordains by special order by-laws and regulations as follows, that is to say:—

By-laws and regulations of the Whatapoko Road Board, made in pursuance of the powers and provisions contained in “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and the amendments thereof, and “The Public Health Act, 1876,” and the amendments thereof, and in pursuance of all the other powers and provisions in that behalf contained or implied in any statute or Ordinance enabling the said Board in that behalf:—

In pursuance of the aforesaid powers, the Whatapoko Road Board, in its capacity as well as a District Road Board as a Local Board of Health, and also in every other capacity in which it is enabled to make by-laws and regulations, hereby ordains as follows:—

Extent and Operation of By-laws.

These by-laws and regulations shall, except where expressly made applicable to a portion only of the Whatapoko Road District, apply to the whole of the said road district, and shall come into force upon the same being published in the New Zealand Gazette.

Interpretation.

1. In these by-laws and regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,——

“ The Board ” shall mean the Whatapoko Road Board.

“ Owner,” as applied to carriages and carts, shall include every person who, either alone or in partnership with any other person, shall keep, or be concerned or interested otherwise than as a driver or attendant in the keeping, employing, or letting to hire of any carriage or cart; and, as applied to land or premises, shall mean the person for the time being entitled to the rack rent thereof.

“ An offence ” shall mean an offence against these by-laws, and shall include the omission or neglect to comply with any part thereof.

“ Person,” and words applying to any person or individual, shall include corporations.

“ Public place ” includes and applies to every road, street, footpath, footway, court, alley, and thoroughfare of a public nature, or open to or used by the public as of right, and every place of public resort or place to which the public have access so open or used.

“ Street ” means the whole of any public highway now existing or hereafter to be laid out or constructed within the road district by or with the sanction of the Board or of Parliament, and includes every public square or place therein, and every bridge in the line of a street. Every street not coming within the above definition shall be deemed to be a private street, unless declared a public street by special order.

“ The Inspector ” shall mean any Inspector for the time being appointed by the Board, in whatsoever capacity, and every person now or hereafter holding such appointment.