May 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1541

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th May, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under the Aliens Act, 1908, in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Red Deer, Virginian Deer, Mallard Ducks, Pheasants, and Quail turned at Large in Southland Acclimatisation Society’s District declared to be vested in that Society.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th May, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that the Southland Acclimatisation Society have turned at large a number of red deer, Virginian deer, mallard ducks, pheasants, and quail in the Southland Acclimatisation District, and that the property in such red deer, Virginian deer, mallard ducks, pheasants, and quail, and their offspring, and in every bird and animal of a like species at large in that acclimatisation district, is deemed to be absolutely vested in the said Southland Acclimatisation Society for a period of three years from the date hereof, as provided by section 56 of the Animals Protection Act, 1908.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th May, 1910.

THE following special order, made by the Remuera Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Road Boards Act, 1908.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

BY-LAWS OF THE REMUERA ROAD DISTRICT.

THE Remuera Road Board, in pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon it by the Road Boards Act, 1908, the Public Health Act, 1908, the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following by-laws :—

1. In these by-laws, if not inconsistent with the context, the following words and expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say :—

“ The Board ” means the Remuera Road Board :

“ The Clerk ” means the Clerk for the time being of the Board :

“ The district ” means the Remuera Road District :

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

“ Sewer ” means every sewer or drain vested in the Board or under the control of the Board :

“ Drain ” means every drain or sewer neither vested in the Board nor maintained by the Board :

“ Inspector ” means any Inspector appointed by the Board for the purposes of these by-laws or any of them.

Words importing the singular number shall include the plural, and words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine, and words importing a person or persons shall include a company or companies and a corporation or corporations.

PART I.

WITH RESPECT TO THE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, AND REPAIR OF BUILDINGS.

2. No person shall erect a new house within the district except in conformity with the following provisions :—

Definition of Site.

(a.) 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.

Definition of New House.

(b.) 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 5 ft. of the ground, 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 to or raising of a house (so far as such addition or raising is concerned), or the procuring of an existing house or of any other building or part of a building intended to be re-erected and used as a house or part of a house and placing the same upon a site in the district, shall be deemed to be the erection of a new house within the meaning of these by-laws.

Plans to be provided.

(c.) The erection of a new house shall not be commenced or proceeded with until the person who purposes to carry out such work shall have made application to the Clerk in the form set forth in the First Schedule of this by-law. Such person shall at the same time lodge with the Clerk complete plans in duplicate showing the block-plan and sections of the said site, the measurement of the area thereof, and the measurements of the height and distance from the boundaries of such house as required by the provisions of this by-law. Such plan and sections shall be in ink on drawing-paper or tracing-cloth, and shall be to a scale not less than one-eighth of an inch to the foot. The Board shall be entitled to retain one copy of the said plans.

Provided always that if the work proposed to be done is of such a trivial nature as in the opinion of the Board not to require the preparation of such plans and sections, the Board may dispense with the production of such plans. If all conditions required by this by-law are or can be fulfilled by the proposed works as described in such plans, a permit for the erection of the house shall be issued by the Board ; and such erection shall not be commenced or proceeded with until such permit shall have been issued, and then not otherwise than in accordance and conformity with the said plans.

Building-site Area.

(d.) No person shall erect a new house in the district upon a site of less area than 3,800 square feet, and unless such site shall have a frontage of at least 38 ft. to a public road ; and such area and frontage shall not be thereafter reduced, but shall be maintained as part of the curtilage and as exclusively belonging and appropriated to such house while the same shall be standing.

Provided that this subclause shall not apply to prevent the erection of one new house on an allotment, lot, or section which does not comply with the requirements thereof, but which is shown as a separate and distinct area on any public plan or on any plan lodged or deposited in the Deeds Register Office or District Land Registry Office, at Auckland, prior to the date of the passing of these by-laws, or on a site owned at such time by a person not owning any adjoining land.

Site Formation.

(e.) The ground on which any new house is to be erected, and the ground immediately adjoining any such new house, shall be so formed and graded by the person erecting the same that no water can lodge thereon or under such house or run under any such house ; and no person shall commence the erection of any building upon any site which shall have been filled up, or which shall have thereon any material impregnated with faecal matter or impregnated with any animal or vegetable matter, or upon which any such matter may have been deposited, unless and until such matter shall have been properly removed by excavation or otherwise from such site.

Air-spaces.

(f.) No person shall erect a new house in the district unless he provide at the side or in the rear thereof an open space exclusively belonging to such dwellinghouse