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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 91

108. A privy constructed in accordance with By-law No. 99 shall be deemed to be a “sufficient privy” within the meaning of the Public Health Act, 1908.

109. No owner of any premises shall construct or build thereon, or permit to be constructed or built thereon, any privy other than a “sufficient privy” as herein defined.

110. No person shall permit any privy, building, ash-pit, drain, backyard, or premises of which he shall be the owner or occupier within the district to become a nuisance or injurious to health.

Ashpit defined.

111. An ashpit shall not be deemed a “sufficient ash-pit” within the meaning of the Public Health Act, 1908, unless the same be either—

(a.) A galvanized-iron watertight receptacle of such shape as to be readily emptied and cleaned, but so that it shall not be of greater interior capacity than 2 cubic feet, and it shall be fitted with a close-fitting covering or door, to be kept shut except when it is being filled or emptied, and with handles for moving and emptying the same; or

(b.) A furrow or trench similar to and to be used in the same manner as is provided by By-law 96 in respect of the burial of nightsoil, and to in all respects comply with requirements of the said By-law 96.

112. No person shall make or construct, or use or permit to be used, any pit or hole for the reception of drainage from any premises within the district unless the same is at least 25 ft. from any dwellinghouse or road.

Pigs.

113. No person shall keep, or allow or suffer or permit to keep, swine or pigs within the district on any holding of less than one-half an acre, or shall in any case so keep them as to be a nuisance or injurious to health, or erect or permit or allow to remain any pigsty at a less distance than 50 ft. from any house or from any road or boundary of any occupied neighbouring property. The floor of every pigsty shall be of concrete or other impervious material to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Nuisances, and shall be so constructed that there shall be no soakage of the soil with pigs’ food, urine, or drainage from the sty. And all persons keeping swine shall give notice thereof in writing to the Inspector of Nuisances in order that he may exercise proper supervision of the same.

114. No person shall keep any poultry in any part of the district on any allotment of land of a less area than a quarter of an acre, and then only in a properly constructed poultry-house; or in a suitably enclosed run attached thereto, and no such poultry-house or run shall be built, constructed, or maintained at any less distance than 15 ft. from any dwelling or any road or street. The floors of all poultry-houses of whatever size, and enclosed poultry-runs of less than 150 square feet, shall be paved with concrete or asphalt; and all poultry-runs, of whatever size, shall be so enclosed as to confine the poultry within the premises of the owner of such poultry. All poultry-houses shall be cleaned out regularly at least once a week, and shall be well lime-washed at least once in every six months by the occupier of the premises.

Sewage drains.

115. No person shall construct or allow to remain any drain for the carriage of sewage except in accordance with the following provisions:—

(a.) In no case shall two or more premises be allowed to be drained by one common pipe, unless a special permit has first been obtained from the Board.

(b.) No drain shall pass underneath any house except where any other course is impracticable, and in such case the drain shall be of earthenware pipes with cemented joints and embedded in 6 in. of concrete, or cast-iron pipes with lead-caulked joints.

(c.) No right-angled junctions shall be permitted in any drain. All junctions shall be effected by means of Y-junction pipes. No inlet, except such as may be necessary for a water-closet, shall be permitted within or beneath a building to any drain.

(d.) All sanitary fittings shall be placed with their outlets against or as near as possible to an external wall, and shall not be directly connected to any drain, but shall discharge through waste-pipes where necessary outside a building over a gully-trap or over a watertight concrete channel of not more than 6 ft. in length leading to a gully-trap.

116. The owner of any land or building shall provide the same with suitable and sufficient drains to carry away the whole of the rainfall and surface water to a point at least 25 ft. from any house, and so that such water cannot flow, spread, or soak beneath any building.

117. It shall be lawful for the Inspector of Nuisances and any other officer of the Board, at any time between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on any day except Sunday, 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, bath, sink, lavatory, overflow or waste pipe, receptacle, or other sanitary appliance or thing contained therein complies with the provisions of these by-laws, or whether any breach of these by-laws has been committed in any respect whatever, and no person shall wilfully obstruct or hinder such officer or other person as aforesaid in the exercise of such powers. 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 appliance: 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 twelve hours’ previous notice of his intention in that behalf; nor in any case unless such person shall have reason to suspect that some nuisance exists upon the premises in question, or on any premises in the vicinity thereof, and he shall not have been able to discover the cause of such nuisance upon any ordinary inspection of such premises; nor unless he shall have reason to believe that the drain, or pipe, or trap, or other appliance he desires to inspect exists 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 on 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 or as small a part of the building as reasonably can be shall be dug up, or opened, or removed (as the case may be), and as little damage done to the premises as can be; and unless some defect or nuisance shall be found requiring attention, such ground or building shall forthwith be reinstated in a good and workmanlike manner by or at the expense of the Board.

Stables, &c., to be kept clean.

118. The occupier of any land on which is erected any stable, cow-yard, cattle-shed, or on which land is erected any building wherein any horse or other beast of draught or burden or any cattle are kept shall cause such premises to be kept in such a state in respect of cleanliness as not to be a nuisance or injurious to health, and shall cause all soil, dung, or other manure produced or accumulated therein to be from time to time removed from such premises as often as the quantity of the same so produced or accumulated shall amount to 1 cubic yard, or once at least in every week should the quantity not amount in that time to 1 cubic yard. No soil, dung, or other manure produced or accumulated in any stable, cow-shed, cattle-shed, or any such building as aforesaid shall, upon or after the removal, be deposited by any person within 20 ft. from any public or private place.

And in any case manure so removed, when deposited, shall be immediately incorporated with earth for garden purposes, or be satisfactorily covered over to prevent the escape of effluvia therefrom by the owner or occupier of the land upon which the same has been deposited.

119. Every owner of a building or premises wherein or whereon any horse or other beast of draught or burden or any cattle may be kept shall provide in connection with such building or premises a suitable receptacle for dung, manure, soil, filth, or other offensive or noxious matter which may from time to time be produced in the keeping of any such animal in such building or upon such premises, which receptacle shall not be placed at a less distance than 15 ft. from any road, street, or footpath, nor from any dwellinghouse, and shall be constructed of brick or stone set in cement, or of cement concrete, and shall cause such receptacle to be constructed so that the bottom or floor thereof shall not in any case be less than 3 in. above the surface of the ground adjoining such receptacle, and in such a manner and to be maintained at all times in such a condition as to prevent any effluvia therefrom, or any escape of the contents thereof, or any soakage therefrom into the ground, or into the wall of any building. Such owner shall likewise provide in connection with such building or premises an underground drain, constructed in such a manner and maintained at all times in such a condition as effectively to convey all