APRIL 27. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1027

noxious weeds within the jurisdiction of the Mount Roskill Road Board.”

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order was duly made by the Mount Roskill Road Board on the 17th day of January, 1905, as required by “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

Dated this 11th day of April, 1905.

CHAS. BAGLEY,
Chairman, Mount Roskill Road Board.

Special Order made by the Council of the County of Masterton.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 20th April, 1905.

THE following special order, made by the Masterton County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

MASTERTON COUNTY.

Special Order making Special Rate.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” the Council of the County of Masterton hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest at the rate of £3 10s. per centum per annum and other charges on a loan of £800 authorised to be raised by the Masterton County Council under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for formation on the Mangarai Road, the said Masterton County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of ⅞d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Mangarai Road Loan Special-rating District, comprised within the following boundaries, that is to say—commencing at the north-west corner of Section 211, Block VIII., Kopuaranga Survey District, and proceeding southwards, bounded by the Mangarai Road to its junction with Cleland’s Road, by the last-mentioned road to the north-west corner of Lot 3 of Section 118, Block VII.; thence by Lot 2 of the last-mentioned section, by Sections 210, Block VII., 119, 120, 9, 3, 4, 5, 6, Block XI., by the north boundary of Lot B, Pohue, and by the last-mentioned boundary produced eastwards until it intersects the western boundary of the Takamaitu Block; thence, proceeding northwards, by part of the Takamaitu Block, by Section 6, Block XI., and again by part of the Takamaitu Block to the Taueru River; thence, proceeding northwards, by Sections 1, 76, 108, 203, 31, Block XII., by Sections 30, 149, 147, and 212, Block VIII., all in the Kopuaranga Survey District, to the point of commencement—and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

Passed by the said Council at a special meeting this 9th day of March, 1905; confirmed this 13th day of April, 1905.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Masterton was affixed hereto in the presence of—

[L.S.] C. E. COCKBURN-HOOD,
County Chairman.
F. G. MOORE,
County Clerk.

I certify that the foregoing order has been duly made.
F. G. MOORE,
County Clerk.

Special Order made by the Heathcote Road Board, County of Selwyn, making By-laws.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1905.

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

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

HEATHCOTE ROAD BOARD, COUNTY OF SELWYN.

SPECIAL ORDER made by the Heathcote Road Board at a Special Meeting held on Monday, the 27th day of March, 1905.

THE following by-law for regulating the erection and construction of privies, closets, ashpits, the removal of nightsoil, and the prevention of nuisances, within those parts of the Heathcote Road District hereinafter described, and for imposing penalties for the breach of this by-law, be now confirmed and adopted in form of special order.

BY-LAW OF THE HEATHCOTE ROAD BOARD.

In pursuance of the powers and authorities contained in “The Public Health Act, 1900,” and in “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and the Acts amending the same respectively, and of all other powers in that behalf thereunto enabling or otherwise vested in them, the Inhabitants of the Heathcote Road District, by the Heathcote Road Board, do hereby make and ordain the following by-law:—

1. The Short Title of this by-law shall be “By-law No. 1, 1905.”

2. This by-law shall apply to and shall be in force in those parts of the Heathcote Road District described in the Schedule hereto.

3. In the interpretation of this by-law the following words and phrases shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there is something in the subject-matter or the context inconsistent with such meaning:—

“Heathcote Road District” or “road district” means the Heathcote Road District constituted under “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and its amendments.

“Road Board” or “Board” means the Heathcote Road Board.

“Inspector” means the Clerk or any other person appointed by the Road Board as Inspector of Nuisances for the time being within the said road district.

“Office” means the office of the Road Board.

“The” or “such areas” means all such part or parts of the road district as are mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

“Person” includes a firm, also a corporation, and the owner and occupier and the agent of any land within such areas.

Words importing the masculine gender include the feminine.

Words importing the singular number include the plural, and words importing the plural include the singular.

With Respect to Nightsoil, Closets, and Privies.

1. From and after the date upon which this by-law comes into operation no person shall make, build, or erect, or permit or suffer to be made, built, or erected, any cesspool or cesspit, or any or any other like receptacle for nightsoil on any land situated within the areas to which this by-law applies, or cover with earth or bury, or permit or suffer to be covered with earth or buried, any nightsoil on any such land, or place, conduct, or drain, or continue to place, conduct, or drain, any nightsoil in or into any cesspool or cesspit erected and being on any such land, or deposit or place any nightsoil in any place or receptacle on such land except in a nightsoil-pan placed in a privy or closet on such land.

2. No person shall drain nightsoil or permit the same to be drained or flow into any channel, ditch, or drain on any land situated within such areas, or into any river, stream, or watercourse on or adjoining any such land, or into any drain or ditch upon the line or within the limits of any roads, streets, or ways within such areas.

3. No person shall spill or cast, or permit or suffer any nightsoil to be spilt or cast, upon any land, street, road, or way within such areas.

4. No person shall remove, cart away, or permit to be removed or carted away, any nightsoil from any land situated within such areas, or from any building, closet, or privy being thereon, without authority in writing from the Road Board.

5. From and after the date upon which these by-laws shall come into operation, if in the opinion of the Road Board any privy or closet or other building or other receptacle for the deposit of nightsoil, or any nightsoil-pan erected or being upon any land within such areas (except where such privy, closet, or other building is connected with the public sewers), is a nuisance or likely to become a nuisance or injurious to health, the Road Board may order the owner or occupier of any such land—

(a.) To abolish such privy, closet, or other building, receptacle, or nightsoil-pan.

(b.) To amend, alter, construct, or reconstruct the same or any part thereof, and to furnish the same so as to make the same conform with this by-law as hereinafter mentioned, and to satisfy the requirements thereof.

6. Every person who shall at any time after the date of the coming into operation of this by-law construct a closet or privy (except where such privy or closet is connected with the public sewers) on any land situate within such areas shall construct and furnish the same in manner hereinafter provided.