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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(c.) Convey or remove into, or permit to be conveyed or
removed through or from, the district any night-
soil or offensive matter, unless the same shall
be enclosed in pans or other receptacles approved
by the Board.

Carting offensive matter.

14. No person shall drive, take, conduct, or convey any
    cart, wagon, float, or other vehicle in, through, or upon the
    district or any part thereof whilst any offensive or noxious
    smell or odour emanates from any such cart, wagon, float, or
    other vehicle or the contents thereof.

Sufficient privy.

15. A “sufficient privy” as defined by these by-laws shall
    be deemed to be a “sufficient privy” within the meaning of
    “The Public Health Act, 1900.”

Sufficient privy necessary.

16. No owner of any premises shall construct or build
    thereon, or permit to be constructed or built thereon, any
    privy other than a “sufficient privy” as herein defined.

Preventing nuisances.

17. No person shall permit any privy, back-yard, or
    premises of which he shall be the occupier within the district
    to become a nuisance or injurious to health.

Ashpit.

18. An ashpit shall not be deemed a “sufficient ashpit”
    within the meaning of “The Public Health Act, 1900,”
    unless the same be either—
    (a.) A galvanised-iron watertight receptacle of such
    shape as to be readily emptied and cleaned, but
    so that it shall not be of greater interior capacity
    than 2 cubic feet, and it shall be fitted with a
    close-fitting covering or door, to be kept shut
    except when it is being filled or emptied, and
    with handles for moving and emptying the same;
    or
    (b.) A furrow or trench similar to and to be used in the
    same manner as is provided by By-law No. 3 of
    Part IV in respect of the burial of nightsoil, and
    to in all respects comply with the requirements of
    the said By-law No. 3.

Position of pit.

19. No person shall make or construct, or use or permit to
    be used, any pit or hole for the reception of drainage from
    any premises within the district unless the same is at least
    25 ft. from any dwellinghouse or road.

Pig-keeping.

20. No person shall keep, or allow or suffer or permit to be
    kept, swine or pigs within the district on any holding of less
    than 2 acres in area, or shall in any case so keep them as
    to be a nuisance or injurious to health, or erect or permit or
    allow to remain any pigsty at a less distance than 100 ft.
    from any house or from any road or boundary of any occu-
    pied neighbouring property. The floor of every pig-sty shall
    be of concrete or other impervious material to the satis-
    faction of the Inspector of Nuisances, and shall be so con-
    structed that there shall be no soakage of the soil with pigs’
    food, urine, or drainage from the stye.

Stables.

21. No person shall erect, cause, or allow to be erected any
    stable nearer than 15 ft. from any house, or nearer than 15 ft.
    from any boundary of neighbouring property. The floor of
    any stable now or hereafter erected shall be constructed of
    concrete or other impervious material, and so constructed
    that there shall be no soakage of the soil with urine or
    drainage from the stable. No person shall allow an accumu-
    lation of animal excreta or manure to remain on any property
    so as to cause a nuisance.

Fowls.

22. No person shall keep fowls on any allotment of land
    of a less area than a quarter of an acre. All fowl-houses
    shall have concrete, tar asphalt, or other impervious floors,
    and the owner of a fowl-house shall have the walls lime-
    washed at least once in every three months, and shall have
    the fowl-house cleaned out regularly at least once a week.
    No person shall erect any fowl-house, or cause any fowl-house
    to be built or remain, nearer than 25 ft. from any dwelling or
    from any boundary of any adjoining land.

House-drainage.

23. The owner of any house shall, when required by the
    Inspector of Nuisances, provide the same with suitable and
    sufficient drains to the satisfaction of the Inspector of
    Nuisances to carry away the whole of the sewage and
    household waste water from the house, and provided with
    such grease-traps or other traps as the Inspector of Nui-
    sances may require, and such drains shall be constructed
    of iron or earthenware glazed pipes of at least 4 in. in
    diameter, with sockets properly jointed and cemented, and
    laid underground, at a gradient of not less than 1 in 40, and
    led into a pit constructed as follows:—

Such pit shall be at least 8 ft. deep, and must go down to
a rock bottom or gravel strata, or such other strata as shall
be approved of by the Inspector of Nuisances, and any rock
bottom if not traversed with crevices shall be opened by
blasting. The pit shall then be filled up with stones of not
less than 3 in. in diameter to not less than 18 in. of the
lowest ground level of the pit’s mouth. The drain must be
led 12 in. into this pit, so that the pipe-mouth discharges
among the stones. The stones are to be covered flush up
to the ground surface all round with dry earth well pressed
down. Such pit must be situated not less than 25 ft. from
any dwellinghouse.

General drainage.

24. No person shall construct or allow to remain any drain
    for the carriage of sewage except in accordance with the fol-
    lowing provisions:—
    (a.) In no case shall two or more premises be allowed to
    be drained by one common pipe, unless a special
    permit has first been obtained from the Board.
    (b.) No drain shall pass underneath any house except
    where any other course is impracticable, and in
    such case the drain shall be of earthenware pipes
    with cemented joints and embedded in 6 in. of
    concrete, or cast-iron pipes with lead-caulked
    joints.
    (c.) No right-angled junctions shall be permitted in any
    drain. All junctions shall be effected by means of
    Y-junction pipes. No inlet except such as may
    be necessary for a water-closet shall be permitted
    within or beneath a building to any drain.
    (d.) All sanitary fittings shall be placed with their outlets
    against or as near as possible to an external wall,
    and shall not be directly connected to any drain,
    but shall discharge (through waste-pipes where
    necessary) outside the building over a gully-trap,
    or over a watertight concrete channel of not more
    than 6 ft. in length leading to a gully-trap.

Storm-water.

25. The owner of any land or building shall provide the
    same with suitable and sufficient drains to carry away the
    whole of the rainfall and surface water to a point at least 25 ft.
    from any house, and so that such water cannot flow, spread,
    or soak beneath any building.

The common seal of the Inhabitants of the Epsom Road
District was affixed to the foregoing by-laws, this 9th day of
January, 1906, in the presence of—

W. READ BLOOMFIELD,
Chairman.

ALFRED McDONALD,
Member.

WILLIAM HOGG,
Clerk.

I, Joseph Patrick Frengley, District Health Officer at
Auckland, do hereby certify that, pursuant to the provisions
of section 100 of “The Public Health Act, 1900,” I did
approve of the foregoing by-laws before they were made and
passed by the Epsom Road Board.
Dated this 12th day of January, 1906.

JOS. P. FRENGLEY, M.D.

I hereby certify that the foregoing by-laws were duly made
by the Epsom Road Board by special order, the resolution in
respect of which was passed at a special meeting of the said
Board convened for that purpose on the 12th day of Decem-
ber, 1905, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the said
Board held on the 9th day of January, 1906; and that all
public notifications, notices, deposits, and other require-
ments of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and its amend-
ments, and “The Public Health Act, 1900,” and its amend-
ments, have been duly complied with in respect of such
special order.
Dated this 17th day of January, 1906.

W. READ BLOOMFIELD,
Chairman of the Epsom Road Board.