Town By-laws




3190 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 103

A license for the sale of goods shall be open to any
person furnishing the particulars mentioned in the preceding
clause, and upon payment of the sum specified in clause 5
of a license fee as hereinafter mentioned. Every such license
shall be for one year from the date of its issue and no more
than one license. The license fee shall be £1 per annum, or a
proportionate part thereof for the balance of the year, if after
the 30th June, when the license issues.
Production of License.—Every licensed hawker or pedlar
shall, at all times, have his license in his possession or produced
with him, and shall show the same to any police constable or
member of the Constabulary Force when lawfully required. No
such hawker or pedlar shall lend his license to any person. It
is not lawful for any person to use another’s license. Every
person is an occupier for a license to be obtained from the following
persons as such:
(a.) Carrying goods, selling, or otherwise for hawking or
seeking orders for goods, wares, or merchandises to
be sold, or exposed for sale for the use or sale
therein, and who may to sell again;
(b.) Persons buying or offering to buy, goods, wares, or
merchandises for sale again, or goods for sale;
(c.) Persons selling or offering for sale meat, bread, fish
or fruit, poultry, game, or other perishable or unperishable
articles of human food.
6. Maori Hawking for Foods only.—No hawker or pedlar
under this part of these by-laws for any hawker or pedlar for
hawking or peddling for any other purpose than an exchange
of his own produce.
(2.) For the purposes of this by-law “Natives” includes
half-castes and others, as includes half-castes having Native blood
and living with Natives.
7. Use of unlicensed.—No licensed hawker or pedlar shall
impersonate any person to purchase to sell any person’s unlicenced
his license to any other person. Any person who shall
himpersonate a licensed hawker or pedlar, or who shall purchase to
sell any in any way while exercising his calling.
8. Penalties.—Any breach or infringement of any licensed
hawker or pedlar of any offence against this Part of these
by-laws, or of any other by-law by any hawker or pedlar, is liable
by imprisonment for one year, or upwards, for the first offence.
No hawker or pedlar shall pay for such time as he thinks in the
license of such hawker or pedlar.

PART IX.—STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES.

  1. For Private Use.—No explosive or dangerous material
    shall be stored for private use in any building within the
    town in quantities exceeding the following:—
    Kerosene, 10 gallons.
    Benzine or any light mineral oil, tur- 8 gallons.
    pentine, or spirits, 50 gallons.
    Carbide, 500 Nil.
    Explosives, 25.
  2. For Sale or Trade.—For the purpose of retail trade the
    following quantities (but no more) may be stored in buildings
    approved by the Council, subject to regulations under “The
    Explosive and Dangerous Goods Act, 1908”:—
    Kerosene, 100 gallons.
    Benzine or any light mineral oil, tur- 10 gallons.
    pentine, or spirits, 50 lbs.
    Carbide, 30 lbs.
    Gunpowder, 2 lbs.
    Dynamite, 1 lb.
    Magazines.—Any quantities of these materials in excess
    of the above, and in such quantities, and of gunpowder, dyna-
    mite, or any compound containing nitro-glycerine or nitro-
    cellulose, may be stored only in a special building certified to
    be licensed for the purpose by the Department, and which
    shall be subject to all a distance of at least 20 ft. from any
    other premises whatsoever.
  3. License.—Every building for which a license is required
    for storage under the Explosive and Dangerous Goods Act, 1908,
    if it shall be found suitable and free from any serious risk of
    fire, by explosion, explosion, or receipt of the following rates:—
    For a retail license, 1s. per annum.
    For a wholesale license, 1s. 10s. per annum.
    Every such license shall determine on the 31st December.
    Following rates therefore:
  4. Inspection.—The Resident Officer, or any officer of the Fire
    may at any reasonable hour enter and inspect any building
    whereby dangerous materials stored, and if any material stored is
    suspected of containing more than the maximum quantity of
    explosives, or dangerous material stored, it is an unlicensed
    building.

PART X.—PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

  1. Public Buildings to be licensed.—No building or en-
    closure shall be used for public meetings, or to assemble
    rooms, or as a theatre or music-hall or dancing hall, or for any

  2. Against buoying Animals not Offensive.—No person
    shall keep or buoy any horse, cattle, sheep, pig, dog, or other
    animal, or any animal of a certain species or genus, within
    3 chains of any public or private street, or public place, or of
    any dwelling.

  3. Against Slaughtering, &c., on Streets.—No person shall
    slaughter or dress any cattle, or other animal, or of any species
    or private place, or of any street, or public not completely
    clean in other animal, of any of the skin or gut, or remain
    thereon, or expose thereon, any of the refuse thereon, any street,
    or private street or public place.

  4. Against throwing Rubbish in the Streets.—No person shall
    throw or cause to be placed any glass, filth, dirt, rubbish,
    refuse, or carrion, into or upon any street or public place,
    upon any public or private place, or public water, or place of
    river, watercourse, or open drain, or in any cellar or place
    adjacent to any dwelling, or in any open or enclosed land or
    building or premises upon or over, or to be on any public or
    private place or public water, or river, watercourse, or open
    drain, not close to a privy, or enclosed by a fence or to be to
    therefrom.

  5. Against Offensive Matter into Watercourses.—No person
    shall throw any offensive matter or dead animal, or
    part of an animal, into any drain or river, watercourse, or open
    river, watercourse, waterdam, or other place whence the
    supply of water for the use of the inhabitants of the town is
    obtained, or into any river or stream in or under the control
    of the Department.

  6. What Premises, &c., to be kept Clean.—The occupier of
    every private yard, way, or passage, building, premises, or
    private place shall, at all times, keep it clear of all kinds of
    offensive smell or otherwise, shall be caused.

  7. Against exposing offensive.—No person shall empty
    any privy or night-soil box unless it is emptied on removal of
    any nightsoil, without a license so to do from the Department.

  8. Offensive matter in Drains.—No person shall throw or place
    kitchen refuse, or other putrid or decaying matter whatsoever,
    into any drain or open drain, or into any sink, or into any
    any swine’s dung within the distance of 200 ft. from any
    private dwelling, shall prevent access to it or ventilation in
    any manner that may be, as described in the preceding clause
    or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes
    or for the purposes mentioned in subclause (c), or that is to be
    used or likely to be used in any dairy.

  9. Dairies.—No dairy shall be kept in the inner area of
    the town as defined in the building by-laws hereinafter
    contained, unless in proper poultry-bins which shall be no
    manner thereof, and no part of which shall be within 20 ft. of
    any dwelling-house. No dairy pig shall not have a run of
    of clear yard space than 20 square feet for each bird.

  10. Building suitable to be kept.—No person any live or
    dead animal whatsoever so as to be or to be likely to become
    a nuisance to health or a health.

  11. Definition.—For the full, or otherwise offensive for
    the purposes of this clause of any of the following things which
    may be or become nuisance, or in a nuisance, a nuisance of
    injurious to health, that is to say:—
    (a.) Any dung, refuse, or exception;
    (b.) Any water-closet, earth-closet, privy, cesspool, or
    drain;
    (c.) Any night-soil, or dust, or receptacle for dust, rubbish,
    or refuse;
    (d.) Any dust, or drain;
    (e.) Any pool, ditch, gutter, or watercourse;
    (f.) Any water, closet, or drain;
    (g.) Any accumulation or deposit;
    (h.) Any offensive matter such as manure and placed
    or deposited.
    (2.) Every person by whose act, default, or sufferance
    such nuisance is caused, suffers, makes, or placed, is liable to a
    deemed guilty of an offense against these by-laws.

  12. Abatement.—Every person who caused shall commit
    any nuisance whatsoever or permit or suffer anything to arise
    thereon, by those by-laws, and whether by them, or on account
    of which he is the occupier which may be or become a nuisance.

PART VIII.—LICENSES—HAWKERS.

  1. Unlicensed Persons not to hawk.—No person shall hawk
    or peddle in any part of the town any goods or articles what-
    soever unless he holds a license in the form of a license from
    the Resident Officer.
  2. Application, and Certificate.—Every person desirous of
    obtaining a license shall make application for the same, as infor-
    mation in writing to the Resident Officer, and shall with such
    application and upon certificate from two respectable persons
    that he is of good character.


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🏘️ Hawkers and Pedlars By-laws

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Licensing, Hawker, Pedlar, Goods, Orders, Produce, By-laws

🏘️ Storage of Explosives By-laws

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Explosives, Kerosene, Benzine, Carbide, Gunpowder, Dynamite, Storage, Licensing

🏘️ Public Buildings By-laws

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Public meetings, Assemble rooms, Theatre, Music-hall, Dancing hall, Licensing

🏘️ Public Health and Nuisance By-laws

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Animals, Slaughtering, Streets, Rubbish, Watercourses, Drains, Nuisance, Dairies