JUNE 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1785

PART “B.”—BUILDINGS.

B 1.—Buildings-site Area.

Except as provided by By-law No. B 2, no person shall erect a new house in the district upon a site of a less area than one quarter of an acre, and unless such site shall have a frontage of at least 50 ft. to a road.

B 2.—Exceptions.

By-law No. B 1 shall not apply to prevent the erection of one new house on an allotment, lot, or section which does not comply with the requirements of By-law No. B 1, but which is shown on any public plan lodged or deposited in the Deeds Registration Office or the District Land Registry Office at Auckland prior to the coming into operation of these by-laws, or on a site owned at the date of these by-laws by a person not owning any adjoining land, or to prevent the re-erection of a shop with dwelling-rooms attached upon any site having frontage to the main Auckland—Onehunga Road.

B 3.—Air-spaces.

No person shall erect a new house in the district unless he shall provide at the side or in the rear thereof of an open space exclusively belonging to such house and of an aggregate area of not less than 600 square feet: Provided that such open space shall extend throughout the entire width, or, in the alternative, throughout the entire depth, of the site, and shall be free from any erection thereon above the level of the ground, and shall be so maintained while the site is occupied by the house: Provided also the minimum distance across such open space from every part of any wash-house, shed, convenience, or other erection attached thereto shall be as follows:—

(a.) If the height of the house does not exceed 15 ft., 15 ft.;
(b.) If the height exceeds 15 ft. but does not exceed 25 ft., 20 ft.;
(c.) If the height exceeds 25 ft. but does not exceed 35 ft., 25 ft.;
(d.) If the height exceeds 35 ft., 30 ft.

For the purpose of these by-laws where the side boundaries of any site are not of the same length the mean length of such side boundaries shall be taken as the depth of the site for the purpose of defining the distance across such open space; and the height of a house shall for the purpose of these by-laws be measured from the average level of the ground immediately adjoining the site or the rear of such house, as the case may be, to the level of half the vertical height of the roof or to the top of the parapet, whichever is the higher.

B 4.—Alteration to Buildings.

No person shall make any alteration or addition to any house (whether erected before the coming into operation of these by-laws or not) whereby the open space attached to such house shall be diminished by such alteration or addition so as to leave a less open space than is required by these by-laws to be provided.

B 5.—Definition of New House.

The erection of a house upon vacant land or upon a site previously occupied by any building, or the re-erection of any house pulled down to within 1 ft. of the ground floor, or the conversion into a house of any building not originally constructed for human habitation, or the conversion into more than one house of a building originally constructed as one house only, or an addition or raising of a house (so far as such addition or raising is concerned), shall be deemed to be the erection of a new house within the meaning of these by-laws.

B 6.—Definition of Site.

The ground upon which any house is erected, together with the whole curtilage thereof enclosed within the boundary fences, walls, or lines of the premises, shall be deemed to be the site of such house within the meaning of these by-laws.

B 7.—Site Formation.

The ground on which any new house is erected, and the ground immediately round such new house, shall be so formed and graded that no water can lodge thereon or under such house, or run under such house.

B 8.—Insanitary Material.

No person shall use any materials in the erection, re-erection, or repair of any house which are unsound, insanitary, or improper to be used for their intended purpose, and any such materials shall within twenty-four hours of their condemnation by the Inspector of Nuisances be removed from the site of the proposed house, and shall not again be brought thereon until the house has been completed.

B 9.—Height of Room, &c.

No room in any house other than a bathroom, closet, or storeroom shall have a less average height than 9 ft., nor less cubic capacity than 650 cubic feet.

B 10.—Walls of Bathrooms and Closets.

One wall of every bathroom or water-flushed closet shall be an external wall.

B 11.—Position of Sinks, Baths, &c.

Every sink, lavatory, basin, closet-basin, or bath shall be placed so that the outlet thereof is as near as possible to the external wall of the room containing any such sanitary fitting.

B 12.—Plates and Joists above Ground.

No part of any plate or joist of any house shall be at a less distance, in the case of a plate, than 3 in., and, in the case of a joist, than 6 in., from any portion of the ground below or immediately adjoining such plate.

B 13.—Foundations of Concrete, &c.

In any foundation-wall, either of concrete, or bricks, or stone, either separate or conjoined, a proper damp-proof course of sheet 4 lb. lead, asphalt, or slates laid in cement, or other durable material impervious to moisture shall be laid beneath the level of the lowest timbers and at a height of not less than 6 in. above the surface of the ground adjoining such wall.

B 14.—Air-space.

The space between the lowest joists and the ground shall in all cases have sufficient and proper communication with the external air for the purposes of ventilation.

BREACHES AND OFFENCES.

Every person who, after the coming into operation of these by-laws, shall do, or cause to be done, or be concerned in doing, anything contrary to the foregoing by-laws, or any of them, or any provision therein contained, or who shall omit to do anything required by the foregoing by-laws, or any of them, to be done by him, shall be deemed to have committed a breach of the foregoing by-laws.

Any person committing a breach of any of the foregoing by-laws shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every offence, and in case of a continuous offence to a penalty of not more than five pounds for each day during which such offence continues.

In pursuance of section 100 of “The Public Health Act, 1900,” I hereby approve of these by-laws.

Jos. P. Frengley, M.D.

26th April, 1906.

[Seal.]

The seal of the Mount Roskill Road Board was hereto affixed, this 8th day of May, 1906, at a special meeting of the said Board, in the presence of—

Chas. Bagley,
Chairman.

Joseph Ambury,
John Haslett,
Members.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order was duly passed at a special meeting of the Mount Roskill Road Board held on the 27th day of March, 1906, and confirmed at a special meeting of the Board held on the 8th day of May, 1906.

Chas. Bagley,
Chairman, Mount Roskill Road Board.

Special Order made by the Awatere Road Board, County of Marlborough.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1906.

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

Albert Pitt,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

AWATERE ROAD BOARD.

By-laws regulating Heavy Traffic.

SPECIAL ORDER of the Awatere Road Board, made the 25th day of April, 1906, and confirmed the 4th day of June, 1906.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by “The Counties Act, 1886,” “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and the several Acts amending the same respectively, and of every