Feb. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 355

Brevet-Colonel ALFRED WILLIAM ROBIN, C.B., New Zealand Militia, Officer Commanding Otago District;
Acting-Captain (Lieutenant) PHILIP A. DE LA PERRELLE, Wakatipu Mounted Rifle Volunteers;
JOSEPH JENKINS, Esq., Arrowtown; and
HENRY G. YOUNGMAN, Esq., Arrowtown,

as Trustees of the Arrowtown Drill-shed Reserve.
Appointments to date from 14th December, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Services of Defence Rifle Cadet Volunteer Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 17, (3), “The Defence Act Amendment Act, 1900,” the services of the undermentioned Defence rifle cadet Volunteer corps:—

Ashburton High School Defence Rifle Cadet Volunteers, with headquarters at Ashburton.

Date of acceptance, 8th January, 1906.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Headquarters of Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps transferred.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the transfer of headquarters of the Raglan Mounted Rifle Volunteers from Raglan to Te Mata, and with effect from 24th January, 1906.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

J. G. WARD.

Special Order made by the Epsom Road Board, County of Eden, making By-laws.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st February, 1906.

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

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

EPSOM ROAD BOARD.

By-laws of the Body Corporate under the Name of “The Inhabitants of the Epsom Road District” made and enacted by the Epsom Road Board.

In pursuance of the powers vested in it by “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and its amendments, “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and its amendments, “The Dog Registration Act, 1880,” and its amendments, and “The Public Health Act, 1900,” and its amendments, and by all or any other statutes it hereunto enabling, the Road Board of the Epsom Road District doth hereby make and enact the following by-laws (to come into operation on the gazetting thereof), namely:—

PART I.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.

Interpretation.

1. In the interpretation of these by-laws, unless inconsistent with the context,—

“Board” means the Epsom Road Board:

“District” means the Epsom Road District, as defined by the New Zealand Gazette of the 18th May, 1883, page 650, and any alterations thereof which may from time to time be legally made:

“District Health Officer” means the District Health Officer of the public health district within which the district is situate:

“Footpath” means any portion of a road laid off or formed for the use of pedestrians solely:

“House” includes hotel, boardinghouse, and any building in which human beings dwell or are intended to dwell, and includes a shop with dwelling-rooms attached:

“Inspector of Nuisances” means the Inspector of Nuisances for the time being appointed by the Board, or, if there be no such Inspector appointed, then the Clerk of the Board shall be deemed the Inspector of Nuisances for the purpose of these by-laws.

“Occupier” in respect of any premises means the person by whom or on whose behalf such premises are actually occupied, and in the case of a factory includes any agent, manager, foreman, or other person acting, or apparently acting, in the general management or control of such factory, and in the case of any premises not actually occupied by any person means the owner of such premises:

“Owner” in respect of any premises means the person for the time being entitled to receive the rack-rent thereof, or who would be so entitled if the same were let to a tenant at a rack-rent:

“Offensive matter” includes offal, putrid or decayed animal or vegetable matter or fish, the refuse of fruit and vegetables, carrion, dead animals, and any other matter giving off an offensive odour or being in any way injurious to health:

“Person” and words applying to any person or individual shall include a body of persons whether incorporated or unincorporated:

“Privy” includes earth-closet, water-closet, pan-privy, and every place for the reception of faecal matter:

“Sufficient privy” means a water-closet or pan-privy of the description with the appliances, fittings, and connections and places as required by these by-laws:

“Road” means any road in the district, and includes street, and also any footpath and crossing, and the whole land between the fences on either side of a road or street:

“Sanitary fitting” includes a urinal, sink, bath, wash-tub, lavatory, and any receptacle, appliance, or thing for the reception or removal of human or animal excreta, sewage, or liquid waste:

“Sewage-tank” means a tank, reservoir, or receptacle for the reception and disintegration of sewage, and includes that class of sewage-tank commonly known as a septic tank, and includes all reservoirs, pipes, filter-beds, discharges, and other parts ordinarily appurtenant to or required for the efficient operation of a sewage-tank:

“Special area” means all that portion of the district bounded on the north by the northern boundary of the district, on the east by the eastern boundary of the district, on the south by the southern boundary of the district, and on the west by a line running parallel to the main Auckland-Onehunga Road but at a distance therefrom of 500 links:

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

Where not inconsistent, words, phrases, and designations herein used which appear in the interpretation clauses of any of the Acts under which these by-laws are made shall have and include the interpretation given thereto by such Acts.

2. These by-laws shall (except as to any by-law or by-laws the application whereof is limited to the special area) apply to and be in force within the whole of the district.

Offences and penalties.

3. Any person who shall do, or cause to be done, or be concerned in doing, anything contrary to these by-laws or any of them, or any provision therein contained, or who shall omit to do anything required by these by-laws or any of them to be done by him, shall be deemed to have committed a breach of these by-laws.