8798

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 91

(19.) Roll any cask, beat any carpet, fly any kite, use any bows and arrows, or catapult or shanghai, or play at football or any game, to the annoyance of any person in any public place, or obstruct any public place, whether by allowing any cart or animal to remain on or across such public place, or by placing any goods or articles thereon, or otherwise.

(20.) Wantonly or maliciously disturb any inhabitant by improperly starting or setting in motion any fire-alarm, ringing any door-bell, knocking at any door, blowing any trumpet or horn, beating any drum or gong, using any other noisy instrument, rolling any trolley, or ringing any bell in any public place or in any doorway abutting thereon.

(21.) Place any placard or other document, writing, or painting, or print, stencil, paint, or write on or otherwise deface any house or building, or any footway, kerbstone, steps, or any wall, fence, lamp-post, veranda-post, railway-post, telegraph-post, urinal, or gate, without the consent of the occupier or owner thereof.

(22.) Stamp, stain, paint, write, print, or post any advertisement or notice upon any footway, kerbstone, or steps.

(23.) Expose to view or distribute in any public place any placard, handbill, print, or other document whatever of an offensive or indecent character.

(24.) Throw or place upon any footway any fruit skin, rind, or peel.

(25.) Throw or discharge any stone or other missile to the damage or danger of any person or property.

(26.) Blast any rock, stone, earth, or timber in or near any public place without having first obtained permission of the Board, or fail to attend to any directions or comply with any conditions in regard thereto given or imposed by the Board or any officer thereof.

(27.) Discharge any firearms without reasonable cause, or set off any fireworks or explosive material in or near any public place, or so near thereto as to endanger, annoy, or frighten the passers-by.

(28.) Place any obstruction in or upon any public place, or in or upon any watercourse, channel, or surface drain in any road, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered.

(29.) Fail to keep in good repair any rail, gate, fence, or cover over or about any area or entrance or lighting-place to any cellar or other place opening into or upon or near any public place, or keep open for more than a reasonable time for taking in or out any articles any entrance to any such area, cellar, or other place, or omit to protect such entrance when open for use.

(30.) Omit, when opening any street, to take all such precautions for guarding against injury to the passengers along such street as may be necessary or as may be directed by the Board or any officer thereof.

(31.) Destroy, damage, pollute, or obstruct any pump, watercourse, fountain, trough, or drinking-fount in any street or public place.

(32.) Wilfully or maliciously damage or destroy, or do, permit, or suffer any act tending to damage or destroy, any growing tree, shrub, or other plant of any kind whatsoever belonging to the Board, whether the same shall be growing in any road, reserve, or public or private place in the district, or any building, erection, structure, or other property of any kind or description belonging to the Board.

(33.) Wilfully extinguish or injure or break any street lamp, or wilfully break or injure any lamp-post.

(34.) Drive any dog or goat harnessed or attached to any vehicle.

(35.) Leave any cart or other vehicle without reasonable excuse, or loiter therewith in any street.

(36.) Wilfully or negligently encumber or obstruct a public place in any manner not before specially described.

(37.) Drive any cart, dray, wagon, or express-wagon without the name and residence of the owner thereof being painted in a legible and permanent manner on a conspicuous place on the right or off side, in letters of at least one inch in length.

(38.) Cast away, sweep, throw, or deposit, or cause or suffer to be cast away, swept, thrown, or deposited, in or upon any street or private street any handbills, printed papers, waste paper, or paper of any kind whatever.

(39.) Sweep, throw, or deposit, or leave, or permit or suffer any person to sweep, throw, or deposit, or leave, any refuse, dust, shop-sweepings, or house-sweepings, or any bottles, earthenware, china, tins, or rubbish of any description, on any road, street, private street public place, or reserve.

(40.) Convey, take, or conduct, or cause to be taken, conveyed or conducted, by means of vehicles, horses, or on foot, or by any means whatsoever, through any street or private street, any frame, apparatus, or contrivance for displaying pictures, placards, notices, or advertisements calculated by its shape, construction, or the colour of any pictures, placards, notices, or advertisements displayed thereon, to obstruct, interfere with, or endanger public traffic in the district.

(41.) Deposit or keep, or suffer to be deposited or kept, any live ashes in any wooden receptacle outside any building or in any place which shall be less than 10 ft. from any building in the district.

(42.) Make or light any fire in any building within the district situate at a less distance than 50 ft. from any other building, save in some properly constructed fireplace.

(43.) Light any bonfire, tar-barrel, or firework upon or within 30 yards of any public or private street or any public place.

(44.) Set or cause to be set on fire any chimney, flue, smoke-vent, stove-pipe, or other erection or appliance used as and hereinafter called a chimney.

(45.) Suffer to be on fire the chimney of the premises which he occupies or uses; provided always that no offence shall be deemed to have been committed if such person prove to the satisfaction of the Justice before whom the case is heard that such fire was in no wise owing to the omission, neglect, or carelessness, whether with respect to cleansing such chimney or otherwise, of himself or his servant.

(46.) Wilfully injure, remove, or destroy any notice-boards set up by the Board or any of its employees.

(47.) Keep or store any gunpowder or other explosive or dangerous material in any public shed or place or on any open space near any building.

(48.) At any one time have or keep in stock in any yard, dwellinghouse, shop, warehouse, shed, cellar, or other building within the district a greater quantity of petroleum than 40 gallons.

(49.) In any street, thoroughfare, or public place, or within the sight or hearing of any person or persons passing by, sing, say, or recite any profane song, use any profane, indecent, or obscene language, or by phonographic or other such methods to convey, paint, draw, or write any profane, indecent, or obscene representation, figure, or word, or distribute or expose or offer for sale or exhibit any profane, indecent, or obscene book, painting, drawing, engraving, photograph, representation, print, or paper writing.

(50.) Indecently expose his person in or within view of passers-by, on or in any public place.

(51.) Spit or expectorate, or otherwise cast or place his saliva on, to, or upon any public footpath or footway.

(52.) Within the district keep or act or behave as master or mistress of, or conduct or assist in the conduct or management of, any brothel or disorderly house or houses of ill-fame, or shall knowingly let any house or any part thereof for the purpose of being so kept or used.

(53.) Ride, drive, or wheel any vehicle of any kind upon or along any footpath, to the danger or obstruction of persons using such footpath. The word “vehicle” shall include a wheelbarrow, bicycle, tricycle, and every other vehicle upon or with wheels, whatever its form or construction, except infants’ perambulators containing infants.

(54.) Assemble in any street or congregate at the corner of any street or public place, or where any streets or public places intersect; and no person or person shall collect or cause any number of persons to collect or congregate in any street or public place or conduct or hold any public meeting therein so as to impede persons passing, or interfere with the free passage of any street or public place, or be guilty of any conduct calculated to annoy the public.

(55.) Drive, or cause, permit, or allow to be driven, upon or along any street or private street in the district any horse, unless the same is securely harnessed to some vehicle or securely led by a halter, bridle, or rope fastened to such horse, and held by some person.

(56.) Suffer, permit, or allow any cattle or any horse, or any geese, or any unregistered dog to wander or be at large in any public place, street, private street, or right-of-way, within the district.