Sept. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 3313

Slop-sinks shall be provided with an adequate water-supply. Slop-hoppers shall be provided with a flushing-cistern as specified for water-closets, and the flush-pipe connection therewith shall be treated similarly.

Slop-hoppers shall be provided with a safe as specified herein for water-closets.

URINALS.

59. Urinals erected within a building used or partly used as a dwellinghouse, shop, office, factory, or workshop shall be basin urinals, constructed of glazed fireclay or other impervious materials, of approved form, and provided with a flushing-rim.

The waste-pipe shall be of lead or other approved materials, trapped and ventilated as provided for water-closets.

Such wastes shall discharge over a gully-trap, provided that where a urinal is contiguous to a water-closet the soil and ventilating pipes provided for the latter may be used for the former.

The walls and floor under basin urinals must be covered with a non-absorbent material; the floor being provided with a trapped waste to receive drippings.

Urinals erected outside a building or in a building open to the air may discharge into open channels without further trapping except that provided for the open channels.

Urinals for public use in hotels, theatres, and other public places shall be stall or trough urinals, approved by the Sanitary Inspector. The floors, walls, and screens of such urinals shall be constructed of approved impervious materials. The floor of such urinals must be laid with a fall to a channel against the wall or under the trough. This channel shall discharge over a gully-trap.

The screens shall also be clear of the floor for a portion of their width; they shall project at least 18 in., and be not less than 2 ft. apart, and of suitable height.

Waste-pipes from urinals shall be as short and direct as possible, and when discharged into a channel shall be bent on the end to direct the water in the direction of the flow.

Urinals shall not be erected unless water is laid on thereto, and shall not be directly connected with any water-supply, but shall be provided with a flushing-cistern of approved material and construction, with a capacity of one gallon for each basin or stall to be flushed.

The water-service to such cistern shall be governed by a ball cock and independent stop-cock.

Automatic flushing-cisterns shall be fixed on public urinals, and timed to discharge at least every twenty minutes.

In connection with other urinals, pull-and-let-go siphon cisterns shall be used.

Flush-pipes for ranges of urinals must be arranged to give even distribution of the flushing water, and shall be of the following sizes :—

1-gallon cistern, ¾ in. diameter.

2-gallon cistern, 1 in. diameter.

3-gallon cistern, 1¼ in. diameter, with branches as directed by the Sanitary Inspector.

Under all basin-urinals erected inside a building where the floors are of wood, safes of 4 lb. sheet-lead, as specified for water-closets, shall be provided.

SANITARY FITTINGS AND CONNECTIONS TO BE KEPT IN CLEANLY CONDITION.

60. It shall be the duty of the occupier and owner of any premises in which any water-closet, urinal, bath, lavatory, sink, wash-tub, or other sanitary appliances are erected to keep the same, and all soil, waste, and vent pipes, and drains and drain-traps in connection therewith, in good and substantial repair, and efficient working-order; and it shall be the duty of the occupier or owner of any such premises to keep all sanitary fittings and their connections as aforesaid clean (save as to vent-pipes) properly flushed with water.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

61. Every owner of premises shall cause to be executed, provided, and done, all such works, structures, appliances, materials, and things whatsoever as shall be necessary to cause such premises to conform in every respect with all the provisions of this part of this by-law: Provided that where, in the opinion of the Sanitary Inspector, the public health shall not in any particular case be endangered by the postponement of the compliance (in whole or in part) with this section, he may from time to time, by writing under his hand, authorize any such postponement for the period on each occasion not exceeding three calendar months.

62. Any owner who shall not comply with the preceding section shall, within one calendar month after being required so to do by the Sanitary Inspector by notice in writing under his hand, cause to be executed, provided, and done all such works, structures, appliances, materials, and things for the purpose aforesaid as may be specified in such notice, and any such notice may be removed from time to time; but neither this section or any notice given thereunder shall relieve any owner from the consequence of any breach of the preceding section.

63. Wherever there shall be a sewer within 100 ft. from any dwellinghouse, factory, shop, office, or other building erected on private premises, and in which building any persons dwell or are employed, or which building is constructed or being adapted for human habitation, or with a view to persons being employed therein, then and in every such case it shall be lawful (if the Board shall decide on a general course of action to that effect, or in any individual case) for the Sanitary Inspector, by notice in writing under his hand, to require the owner of such building to provide and affix a water-closet for the same. An owner served with a notice as aforesaid shall cause a water-closet to be provided and affixed in such building or outside the same (but on the private premises whereon such building is erected or being erected), such water-closet to be constructed in accordance in every respect with the provisions of this part of this by-law relating to water-closets; and to have all works, fixtures, and appliances of every kind required by the said part of this by-law, and to be connected with the said sewer by a drain, and in every respect as required by the said part of this by-law.

64. If the building is erected the said notice shall be complied with within one calendar month from service thereof; but if the building is in course of erection, then within such reasonable time as shall be stated in that behalf in such notice.

65. Within the time within which any water-closet is required to be provided and affixed as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the owner of the private premises to cause to be removed from the said private premises every privy, or earth, or other such closet being thereon. After a water-closet shall have been provided for any building erected on private premises (whether already or to be hereinafter provided) it shall be unlawful for the owner of such private premises, or any other person to construct, erect, set up, or provide any privy, or earth, or other such closet on the said private premises; and, in addition, the owner of such private premises shall be held guilty of a breach of this part of this by-law on every day for which any such privy, earth, or other closet remains upon such private premises contrary to this part of this by-law, after such owner shall have been served with a notice in writing under the hand of the Sanitary Inspector of the existence of such closet.

66. No occupier of any private premises shall prevent or attempt to prevent, or in any manner obstruct the owner thereof from or in complying with any such notice given under, or performing any duty or obligation imposed by, this by-law.

67. It shall be lawful for the Sanitary Inspector and for the Inspector of Nuisances at any time between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on any day except Sundays to enter into and inspect any land or building for the purpose of ascertaining whether such premises or any water-closet, earth-closet, urinal, drain, sink, lavatory, overflow, or waste-pipe receptacle, or other sanitary appliances or thing contained therein complies with this part of this by-law, or whether an breach of this part of this by-law has been committed in any respect whatever; and every person who shall wilfully obstruct or hinder such officer or other person as aforesaid in the exercise of such power shall be guilty of an offence.

68. It shall be lawful for the person inspecting any premises as aforesaid to dig up and open any part of the ground, or remove any part of any building on such premises for the purpose of examining any drain, or pipe, or trap, or other appliances: Provided always that the person inspecting as aforesaid shall not dig up or open any ground or remove any part of any building as aforesaid without having given to the occupier of the said premises, or the owner thereof, or his agent, at least twenty-four hours’ previous notice of his intention in that behalf; nor in any case, unless such Inspector shall have any reason to suspect that some nuisance exists upon the premises in question or any premises in the vicinity thereof, and he shall not have been able to discover the cause of the nuisance upon any ordinary inspection of such premises, nor unless he shall have any reason to believe that the drain, or pipe, or trap, or other appliance he desires to inspect, under, or behind, or in the immediate vicinity of the ground, or part of building intended to be interfered with as aforesaid, and is probably defective, and also the probable cause of the nuisance existing, or suspected to exist, upon the said premises, or any premises in the vicinity thereof: Provided also that in digging up and opening such ground, or removing such part of building as aforesaid, as little ground and as small a part of the building as reasonably can be shall be dug up or opened or removed (as the case may be),