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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 75

Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th September, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in him by subsection (2) of section 6 of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” to appoint

ANDREW CLARKE,

of Thames, Police Sergeant, to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing under the above-mentioned Act.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Member of Auckland Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th September, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of the provisions of section 7 of “The Auckland Harbour Board Act, 1885,” and section 40 of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, appointed

ALFRED RICHARD HARRIS

to be a member of the Auckland Harbour Board, in place of William Leys, resigned.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Time of Meetings of Marlborough Land Board approved.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 1st September, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 48 of “The Land Act, 1892,” approved of the meetings of the Marlborough Land Board being held on the second Tuesday in each month, at 10 a.m.

WM. HALL-JONES.

For Minister of Lands.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointments:—

New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff.

Patrick Wood Hislop to be Surgeon-Captain.

Geraldine Rifle Volunteers.

The Rev. Staples Hamilton to be Honorary Chaplain.

Commissions to date from the 5th May, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Services of Volunteer Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 39, (1), “The Defence Act, 1886,” the services of the

Palmerston South Rifle Volunteers.

Acceptance to date from the 1st day of August, 1899.

W. C. WALKER,

For Defence Minister.

Special Order of the Otahuhu Road Board, County of Manukau, making By-laws.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1899.

THE following special order, made by the Otahuhu Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

J. CARROLL.

OTAHUHU ROAD BOARD.

BY-LAWS of the body corporate called “The Inhabitants of the Otahuhu Road District,” made and enacted by and under special order of the Otahuhu Road Board, passed on Thursday, the 25th day of August, 1898, and sealed with the common seal of the said Road Board on the 1st day of September, 1898; and amended by and under a further special order of the said Board passed on the 14th day of August, 1899, and sealed with the common seal of the said Road Board on the 26th day of August, 1899:—

The under-mentioned by-laws, except Nos. 4, 5, 10, and 11, shall be in force within and shall affect the whole of the Otahuhu Road District.

In pursuance of the powers in that behalf vested in it by “The Road Board Act, 1882,” and its amendments, “The Public Health Act, 1876,” and “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and all other statutes it thereunto enabling, the Road Board of the Otahuhu Road District doth hereby ordain as follows:—

1. No person shall spill or cast, or allow any nightsoil or other offensive matter to be spilt or cast, into or upon any road or street.

2. No privy or earth-closet shall be permitted to be erected or to be or exist at less distance than 15 ft. from any house or building used as a dwelling, or on any road or footpath, and no privy or earth-closet shall be permitted to exist at less than 5 ft. from any boundary-fence.

3. All privies and house-drains within the district shall be under the superintendence, government, and control of the Board.

4. No person shall bury, or cause or suffer or allow to be buried, any nightsoil or dead animals in any yard, garden, area, paddock, or other place whatsoever in the district situated in the following prescribed area—viz., all that portion of the Otahuhu Road District bounded, starting at the northern corner of Fairburn Road at its junction with the Great South Road; proceeding in an easterly direction in a straight line to the south-eastern corner of Lot 9, Section 8, Village of Otahuhu; thence proceeding in a northerly direction in a straight line to the north-eastern corner of Lot 1, Section 5, of the Village of Otahuhu; thence proceeding in a westerly direction along the southern side of Queen Street to the western side of 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 schoolground; thence proceeding in a southerly direction in a straight line along the western boundary of said schoolground 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 Lot 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 nightsoil, 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.