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For the purpose of these by-laws, where the side boundaries of any site are not of the same length, the mean length of such side boundaries shall be taken as the depth of the site for the purpose of defining the distance across such open space, and the height of the house shall for the purpose of these by-laws be measured from the average level of the ground immediately adjoining the side or the rear of such house, as the case may be, to the level of half the vertical height of the roof or to the top of the parapet, whichever is the higher.

ALTERATIONS TO BUILDINGS.

5. No person shall make any alteration or addition to any house (whether erected before the coming into operation of these by-laws or not) whereby the open space attached to such house shall be diminished by such alteration or addition so as to leave a less open space than is required by these by-laws to be provided.

DEFINITION OF NEW HOUSE.

6. 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 1 ft. of the ground floor, 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 or raising of a house (so far as such addition or raising is concerned) shall be deemed to be the erection of a new house within the meaning of these by-laws.

DEFINITION OF SITE.

7. 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.

8. The ground on which any new house is erected and the ground immediately around such new house shall be so formed and graded that no water can lodge thereon or under such house or run under such house.

BUILDINGS.

9. No new buildings, or any alteration or addition to any existing building, shall be commenced or proceeded with until the person who proposes to carry out such work shall have made application in writing to the Clerk, and shall have paid the fees hereinafter mentioned. Such person shall at the same time lodge with the Clerk complete plans showing the block-plan of the said site and the measurements of the height and distance from the boundaries of such building, as required by the provisions of the by-laws of the Tamaki West Road District, and also the estimated cost of such work. 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 a foot; 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 plan and sections, the Board may dispense with their production. If the Board be satisfied that all conditions required by its by-laws are or can be fulfilled by the proposed works as described in such plans, then after the payment of the fees hereinafter mentioned a permit for the proposed work shall be issued by the Clerk.

10. After the Clerk shall have given such permit, no deviation affecting any matter coming within the scope of the by-laws shall be made upon any drawings or particulars that shall have been deposited as aforesaid, unless a notice in writing clearly specifying the intended deviations shall first have been deposited with the Clerk at the office of the Board, and the Clerk shall have notified in writing under his hand that such deviation is in accordance with the by-laws.

11. There shall be paid in respect of every permit issued as aforesaid the following fees:—

For alterations or buildings of a value not £ s. d.
exceeding £20 0 1 0
For alterations or buildings of a value exceeding £20 but not exceeding £100 0 10 0
For alterations or buildings of a value exceeding £100 1 0 0

12. Every building to be hereafter erected within the road district, and all additions or alterations to buildings already or hereafter to be erected, shall be constructed or made of or from timber of good quality, and suitable in all respects for the purposes for which it is intended to be used, and not of or from timber which has been condemned. No board or scantling shall contain more than one-third of sap, and no timber of the kind known as white-pine shall be used in the construction of any building.

The Inspector (or other officer appointed by the Board for the purpose) shall have power to inspect all material intended to be used in the alteration or erection of any building, and shall have power to condemn any material which may be, in his opinion, unsound or unsuitable from any cause whatsoever for such use. Any person using in any alteration or erection of a building any material which has been so condemned is guilty of an offence.

13. No person shall throw or deposit, or cause or suffer to be cast, thrown, or deposited, any refuse, sweepings, or rubbish in or upon any road or public reserve in the district unless at such place or places as the Tamaki West Road Board may appoint or fix for that purpose.

14. The owner of any vehicle plying for public hire in the district shall keep such vehicle and any horse attached thereto, and the appointments thereof, thoroughly clean and in good serviceable order and condition.

The above by-laws were made by special order of the Tamaki West Road Board, the resolution to make the same having been passed at a special meeting of the said Board held on the 2nd day of December, 1911, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting thereof on the 13th day of January, 1912.

The common seal of the Inhabitants of the Tamaki West Road District was set and affixed hereto at a meeting and by order of the Tamaki West Road Board on the 13th day of January, 1912, in the presence of—

JOHN MASSEY,
Chairman.

G. F. CAMPBELL,
Member.

ALEXANDER BELL,
Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above by-laws were passed by special order of the Road Board of the Tamaki West Road District on the 13th day of January, 1912, all the requirements of the Road Boards Act, 1908, having been duly complied with.

Dated this 13th day of January, 1912.

ALEXANDER BELL,
Clerk, Tamaki West Road Board.

Special Order made by the Council of the Borough of Eketahuna.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1912.

THE following special order, made by the Eketahuna Borough Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

EKETAHUNA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Special Order making Special Rate.

THAT, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and the Acts amending the same respectively, the Eketahuna Borough Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £120, authorized to be raised by the Eketahuna Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of the completion of the road improvements in the Newman Road Special-rating Area in the Borough of Eketahuna, being a further loan of 10 per centum on the original loan of £1,735 authorized for the said purpose, the said Eketahuna Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of ½d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Newman Road Special-rating Area; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring special rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of February and August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years and a half, or until the loan is fully paid off, the cost of raising the loan and the first year’s interest to be paid out of the loan.

We hereby certify that the above special order was made at a special meeting of the Eketahuna Borough Council held on Monday, the 11th day of December, 1911, and was duly confirmed at a special meeting of the said Council held on Monday, the 15th day of January, 1912.

EDWARD PAGE,
Mayor.

J. PRENDEVILLE,
Town Clerk.