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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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2. No person shall allow any timber or other heavy material not being wholly raised above the ground on wheels to be dragged on a road or street.

3. No person shall permit any cattle to be at large without proper guidance, or to wander or to be herded or grazed upon any road or street other than in the ordinary course of driving stock.

4. No person shall leave upon any street or road any plough, harrow, reaping, threshing, or other machine, or any vehicle with or without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, so as thereby to unlawfully obstruct in any manner the free passage of persons passing along such road or street.

5. 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.

6. No person shall leave any timber, bricks, stone, building or other material upon any road or street, or upon or over any channel or surface-drain in any road or street, so as to obstruct or endanger any persons using the road, without the permission in writing of the Board having been first obtained.

7. No person shall permit any back yard or premises in his or her occupation within the district to become a nuisance or injurious to health.

8. No person shall bury, or cause or suffer or allow to be buried, any nightsoil or dead animal in any yard, garden, or area paddock of less than 3 acres, or other place whatsoever, in the district situated in the following prescribed area: viz., All that portion of the Mount Wellington Road District bounded, starting at the south-west corner of Lot 36 of Section 12, near the Harp of Erin Hotel; proceeding by the north side of the Great South Road to Glasgow Road at the south-east corner of Lot 336, Section 12; thence by Glasgow Road to the south-west corner of Lots 259 to 284, Section 12; thence by laid-off road to the south-east corner of Lots 285 to 313 of Section 12; thence by laid-off road to the Panmure Road at the north-east corner of Lots 241 to 256, Section 12; thence by Panmure Road to the south-east corner of Lot 630, Section 12; thence by a straight line to a laid-off road at the south-west corner of Lot 1 of Section 2, Waiatarua; thence by a straight line to the boundary of the Mount Wellington Road District at the south-west corner of Lot 32 of Section 1, Waiatarua; thence by the boundary-line of the said Mount Wellington Road District to the starting-point.

9. Every person who causes or permits to run from any manufactory or building or place any offensive liquor or matter into or upon any road or street, public or private, or any footway or channel, shall be guilty of an offence.

10. Every occupier of any land or premises who causes or permits to run from such land or premises into or upon any road or street, public or private, or into or upon any footway or channel, any offensive liquid or matter shall be guilty of an offence.

11. No person shall burn any shavings, straw, or other materials or matter on any road or street without the consent in writing of the Board.

12. No person shall throw or discharge any stone or other missile, or use any catapult or other propelling instrument, within the district to the damage or danger of any person or property.

13. No person shall allow any droppings of the eaves of any house or verandah to fall upon any road or street.

14. Every bicycle and tricycle used in or upon any road or street after sunset and before sunrise shall carry a light in a conspicuous place in front, and shall also carry an alarm-bell, and the rider thereof shall ring such bell when meeting or passing any vehicle or any person on horseback, and when approaching any person who may be crossing any road or street, whether on foot or horseback; and the rider of every such bicycle or tricycle shall observe the law as to meeting and passing vehicles as is prescribed by law for persons driving vehicles.

15. If any dog shall, on any highway or road or street within the district, rush at, attack, or startle any person or any horse, cattle, or other animal, whereby the life or limbs of any person shall be endangered, or any property be injured or endangered, the owner of such dog or the person in charge of such dog, or the person such dog shall be following, shall be guilty of an offence.

16. No person shall deposit rubbish of any description upon any road or street within the district.

17. No person shall keep, or allow or suffer or permit to be kept, swine or pigs within the district, and so kept as to be a nuisance or injurious to health.

18. If any person shall violate, or fail to do or observe, any rules, matters, or things laid down by these by-laws, or shall make, do, suffer, permit, or allow to be done that which he is not entitled or allowed to do under the authority of these by-laws, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence, and for each such offence shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay a sum of five pounds, or such smaller penalty as the Court in its discretion shall inflict.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed, in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and its amendments, on the 13th day of May, 1901.

ROBERT S. CARTER,
Clerk to the Mount Wellington Road Board.

Approved.

R. H. MARGILL,
District Health Officer.
Auckland, 20th February, 1902.

MOUNT WELLINGTON ROAD BOARD.

By-laws of the body corporate under the name of the Inhabitants of the Mount Wellington Road District, made and enacted by and under special order of the Mount Wellington Road Board passed on Wednesday, the 15th day of January, 1902, and sealed with the common seal of the said Board on the 15th day of January, 1902, to come into force on being gazetted:—

The undermentioned by-laws shall be in force within and shall affect the whole of the Mount Wellington Road District.

In pursuance of the powers vested in it by “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and its amendments, “The Public Health Act, 1900,” and by other statutes it thereunto enabling, the Road Board of the Mount Wellington Road District doth hereby ordain as follows:—

1. Every owner or occupier of any dwellinghouse or other tenement within the district shall provide and keep convenient to the privy or closet a box containing dry earth, ashes, or lime, to be used in such privy or closet as a deodoriser.

2. No privy or closet shall be permitted to be erected at less distance than 15 ft. from any house or building used as a dwelling, or from any road, street, or footpath.

3. Every privy or closet must be provided with a watertight iron pan of the pattern approved by the Board for the reception of nightsoil. The pan shall be provided by the Board for and at the cost of the owner or occupier of the premises where to be used, and such pan shall be paid for on demand.

The owner or occupier of the premises shall provide and use or cause to be used a sufficient quantity of earth, ashes, or other deodorising substance, so that no nuisance be created or injury to health arise.

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

5. The Board shall make such provision as it shall think fit for the regular removal from any and every dwellinghouse or other tenement used as a dwelling within the Mount Wellington Road District, and at the expense of the owner or occupier thereof, of all or any rubbish, nightsoil, dung, slops, filth, or refuse of any kind; and no person shall remove nightsoil from the said prescribed area without a license from the Board.

The Inspector of Nuisances or Surveyor 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 buildings or land within the Mount Wellington Road District for the purposes of effecting any such removal as in the last preceding section specified, or for examining the condition of any privy, drain, closet-pan, or earth-box, or for cleansing, constructing, or altering or repairing the same.

If any person shall violate, or fail to do or observe, any rules, matters, or things laid down by these by-laws, or shall make, do, suffer, permit, or allow to be done that which he is not entitled or allowed to do under the authority of these by-laws, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence, and for each such offence shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay a sum of five pounds, or such smaller penalty as the Court in its discretion shall inflict.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed, in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and its amendments, on the 15th day of January, 1902.

ROBERT S. CARTER,
Clerk to the Mount Wellington Road Board.

Approved.

R. H. MARGILL,
District Health Officer.
Auckland, 20th February, 1902.