Dec. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3745

such stated places, as may be decided on by the respective owners thereof, subject to the approval of the Board, and every owner, or driver, or conductor of any such carriage starting, or permitting the same to start, before or after the time submitted to and approved by the Board, or plying from any place other than that submitted to and approved by the Board, shall be guilty of an offence.

PART V.
SANITARY.

Burial of nightsoil.

94. No person shall bury, or cause or suffer or allow to be buried, nightsoil within the curtilage of any premises which shall be less than 1 acre in extent, or within the curtilage of any premises used as an hotel or boarding-house, and then not within 33 ft. of any road, or any house or public building, or any building in which any person may be or may be intended to be employed in any manufacture, trade, or business within the district.

95. No person shall bury upon any private property the nightsoil produced upon any premises from which a case of infectious disease has been duly notified to the District Health Officer, and during such time as the District Health Officer shall declare the premises to be infected; but all such nightsoil shall be removed and disposed of by the Board at the expense of the occupier, and every pail or pan used for the reception or removal of such nightsoil shall be specially marked, and be retarred after emptying and cleaning before being used again.

96. No person shall bury nightsoil otherwise than in the following manner :—
    A V-shaped furrow or trench shall be formed of not more than 18 in. in depth, and the nightsoil shall be placed therein, each lot as soon as placed to be covered with at least 6 in. of earth, well pressed down flush up to the surface of the ground. No fresh trench shall be opened up within 3 ft. of an old trench at any time within three months of the final closing of such old trench.

Sewage-tank.

97. No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, any sewage-tank—
    (a.) Unless such tank in its design, position, and method of construction has first been approved by the District Health Officer and by the Inspector of Nuisances; or
    (b.) After the District Health Officer or the Inspector of Nuisances shall, on account of some defect or fault therein, or wrongful use thereof, in writing, notify such person not to use such sewage-tank, and until such notice shall be in writing withdrawn by the person giving the same.

98. No person shall use, or cause or allow to be used, any privy of the nature of a water-closet in the district unless the same be connected with a sewage-tank approved as hereinbefore mentioned, and not the subject of a notice not to use the same under the preceding by-law, and unless the same be furnished with such ventilation and appliances, and such closet and appliances be constructed in all particulars and parts in such manner, of such materials, and with such separate flushing and cleansing apparatus, traps, and pipes, as the Inspector of Nuisances shall require.

99. No person shall construct any privy or closet (other than a water-closet) except in accordance with the following provisions, and the owner and occupier of any premises upon which any such privy or closet exists shall, after two months from the coming into force of this by-law, cause such privy or closet to conform in every respect thereto :—
    (a.) No part of any privy shall be at less than 15 ft. distance from any road, street, or footpath, nor from any dwellinghouse, nor from every part of any wash-house, shed, convenience, or other erection attached to such dwellinghouse, nor from any building, shop, or office in which any person may or may be intended to be employed in any manufacture, trade, or business, other than a detached wash-house used exclusively for domestic purposes, nor from any place of public worship, or any public hall or school.
    Every privy shall be so situated that the pan can be removed and the contents disposed of without the same having to be carried through any house, shop, factory, or workshop.
    (b.) Every privy, other than a water-closet, shall be so constructed or altered that at least one of its sides shall be an external wall. The floor, including the space under the seat, shall be of good sound timber, planed, tongued and grooved, or of brick or cement, and shall be at least 6 in. above the level of the ground immediately adjoining thereto.

It shall be properly lighted and ventilated, and the door shall be in a position best adapted to conceal the interior from the public view. The seat shall be capable of being opened or removed for the entire width, for the purpose of cleaning the space beneath. Battens shall be placed on the floor beneath the seat so as to secure that the pan shall be so placed that all excreta shall fall directly into the pan.
(c.) Every privy shall be provided with a removable watertight metal receptacle made in accordance with such model pan or pans as may from time to time be determined by resolution of the Board and deposited at the Board’s office as a pattern of a “regulation pan”: Provided that if before the coming into force of this by-law the owner or occupier has provided a removable watertight receptacle with at least two handles and of not greater capacity than 2 cubic feet, it shall not be compulsory upon the owner or occupier of the premises to provide the “regulation pan” herein specified until served with a notice in writing by the Inspector of Nuisances requiring him so to do.

Disinfectants.

100. Every owner or occupier of any house within the district shall provide and keep convenient to the privy a box containing dry earth, disinfectant, or lime, to be used daily in such privy or closet as a deodorizer.

101. All privies, closets, and house-drains within the district shall be under the superintendence, government, and control of the Board.

102. No privy or closet (except a privy of the nature of a water-closet constructed and being in accordance with By-law 98) shall be permitted to be erected or to remain at less distance than 15 ft. from any house or building used as a dwelling, or from any road, street, or footpath, or from the boundary-fence of any used or occupied land or allotment.

103. Whenever a contract shall be subsisting and in force between the Board and a contractor providing for the removal of nightsoil by such contractor from any specified portion of the district, or whenever the Board shall itself undertake the removal of nightsoil from any specified portion of the district, no person shall, without the special consent of the Board, bury, or cause, suffer, or allow to be buried, any nightsoil in any yard, garden area, paddock, or other place whatsoever in such specified district.

Board may undertake removal of nightsoil.

104. The Board may make such provision as it shall think fit for the removal, periodically or otherwise, or may at any time cause to be removed from any or every dwellinghouse, or other tenement, tent, or building, or from any place whatsoever within the district, at the expense of the owner or occupier thereof, any nightsoil, dung, slops, filth, offensive matter, refuse, or rubbish of any kind.

105. The Inspector of Nuisances, or any other person or persons who may be appointed by the Board for the purpose of these by-laws, shall have power to enter into or upon any buildings or land within the district for the purpose of effecting any such removal as in By-law 104 specified, or for examining the condition of every privy, drain, closet, pan, or earth-box, or for cleansing, constructing, altering, or repairing the same.

106. No person who shall be engaged in the trades of scavenging or the removal of nightsoil within the district shall—
     (a.) Remove, cart, carry, or transport any offensive matter, pans, boxes, or other receptacles in any cart, wagon, float, or other vehicle which has not got the name of the owner clearly and legibly painted, in letters at least 2 in. in height in white paint on a dark ground, on some conspicuous part of such cart, wagon, float, or other vehicle.
     (b.) Convey or remove, or permit the conveyance or removal of, nightsoil in the district between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.
     (c.) Convey or remove into, or permit to be conveyed or removed through or from, the district any nightsoil or offensive matter, unless the same shall be enclosed in pans or other receptacles approved by the Board.

107. No person shall drive, take, conduct, or convey any cart, wagon, float, or other vehicle in, through, or upon the district or any part thereof, whilst any offensive or noxious smell or odour emanates from any such cart, wagon, float, or other vehicle, or the contents thereof, nor spill, or cast, or allow any nightsoil or other offensive matter to be spilt or cast into or upon any road or street, or in or about any privy or other place whatever.