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DEPUTY REGISTRARS OF MARRIAGES, &c., APPOINTED.

Registrar-General's Office,

Wellington, 10th February, 1915.

T is hereby notified that the undermentioned have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name.

FRANCIS HALLIDAY GARTH .. .. .. Takaka.
WILLIAM BISHOP .. .. .. Kurow.

F. W. MANSFIELD,

Registrar-General.

Special Order made by the Mount Wellington Road Board, County of Eden, making Motor-car By-laws.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 13th February, 1915.

THE following special order, made by the Mount Wellington Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Road Boards Act, 1908.

H. D. BELL,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

MOUNT WELLINGTON ROAD BOARD.

BY-LAWS OF THE BODY CORPORATE UNDER THE NAME OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE MOUNT WELLINGTON ROAD DISTRICT MADE AND ENACTED BY THE MOUNT WELLINGTON ROAD BOARD.

In pursuance of the powers vested in it by the Road Boards Act, 1908, and its amendments, the Public Works Act, 1908, and its amendments, the Public Health Act, 1908, and its amendments, and the Motor Regulation Act, 1908, and by all or any other statutes it hereunto enabling, the Road Board of the Mount Wellington Road District doth hereby make and enact the following by-laws (to come into operation on the gazetting thereof), namely:—

PART I.—GENERAL PROVISIONS.

Interpretation.

1. In the interpretation of these by-laws, unless inconsistent with the context,—

“Board” means the Mount Wellington Road Board.
“District” means the Mount Wellington Road District, and any alterations thereof which may from time to time be legally made.
“District Health Officer” means the District Health Officer of the public health district within which the district is situate.
“Footpath” means any portion of a road laid off or formed for the use of pedestrians solely.
“House” includes hotel, boardinghouse, and any building in which human beings dwell or are intended to dwell, and includes a shop with dwelling-rooms attached.
“Inspector of Nuisances” means the Inspector of Nuisances for the time being appointed by the Board, or if there be no such Inspector appointed, then the Clerk of the Board shall be deemed the Inspector of Nuisances for the purposes of these by-laws.
“Occupier,” in respect of any premises, means the person by whom or on whose behalf such premises are actually occupied; and in the case of a factory includes any agent, manager, foreman, or other person acting or apparently acting in the general management or control of such factory; and, in the case of any premises not actually occupied by any person, means the owner of such premises.
“Owner,” in respect of any premises, means the person for the time being entitled to receive the rack-rent thereof, or who would be so entitled if the same were let to a tenant at a rack-rent.
“Offensive matter” includes offal, putrid or decayed animal or vegetable matter or fish, the refuse of fruit and vegetables, carrion, dead animals, and any other matter giving off an offensive odour or being in any way injurious to health.
“Person,” and words applying to any person or individual, shall include a body of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated.
“Privy” includes earth-closet, water-closet, pan privy, and every place for the reception of faecal matter.
“Sufficient privy” means a water-closet or pan privy of the description, with the appliances, fittings, and connections, and places as required by these by-laws.

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“Road” means any road in the district, and includes street, and also any footpath and crossing and the whole land between the fences on either side of a road or street.
“Sanitary fitting” includes a urinal, sink, bath, wash-tub, lavatory, and any receptacle, appliance, or thing for the reception or removal of human or animal excreta, sewage, or liquid waste.
“Sewage-tank” means a tank, reservoir, or receptacle for the reception and disintegration of sewage, and includes that class of sewage-tank commonly known as a septic tank; and includes all reservoirs, pipes, filter-beds, discharges, and other parts ordinarily appurtenant to or required for the efficient operation of a sewage-tank.
“Any offence” shall mean an offence against these by-laws, and shall include the omission or neglect to comply with any part thereof.
Where not inconsistent, words, phrases, and designations herein used which appear in the interpretation clauses of any of the Acts under which these by-laws are made shall have and include the interpretation given thereto by such Acts.
2. These by-laws shall apply to and be in force within the whole of the district.

Offences and Penalties.

3. Any person who shall do, or cause to be done or be concerned in doing, anything contrary to these by-laws or any of them, or any provision herein contained, or who shall omit to do anything required by these by-laws or any of them to be done by him, shall be deemed to have committed a breach of these by-laws. Any person committing a breach of these by-laws shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every such offence; and in case of a continuous offence to a penalty of not more than five pounds for each day during which such offence continues.

PART II.—CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF ROADS.

Protection of Footpaths.

1. No person shall drive, ride, or lead any horse or other animal, or wheel any barrow or other vehicle, or ride any cycle or other vehicle, upon or along any footpath.

Preventing the Dragging of Material.

2. No person shall drag or allow to be dragged on a road any timber or other heavy material not being wholly raised above the ground on wheels.

Cattle wandering, &c.

3. No person shall permit any cattle to be at large without proper guidance, or to wander or to be herded or grazed upon any road other than in the ordinary course of driving stock, or otherwise than in accordance with a license granted by the Board in pursuance of any authority conferred on the Board by statute.

Obstruction by Vehicles, &c.

4. No person shall allow to remain upon any road any vehicle having no horse or other animal harnessed thereto, or any plough, harrow, reaping, threshing, or other machine; and no person shall leave any vehicle with any horse or animal harnessed thereto on any road, unless one of the wheels is fastened to the vehicle by a chain.

Obstruction by Materials.

5. No person shall leave any timber, bricks, stone, building, or other material upon any road, or upon or over any channel or surface drain in any road, without the permission in writing of the Board having been first obtained.

Offensive Droppings.

6. No person shall spill or cast or allow any nightsoil or other offensive matter to be spilt or cast into or upon any road, or any land, building, or erection adjacent to such road.

Offensive Drainage.

7. No person shall cause or permit any offensive matter or offensive liquid to run from any land, manufactory, building, or place into or upon any road, or any right-of-way or any footpath, or channel or ditch.

Rubbish-deposits, &c.

8. No person shall throw, leave, or deposit upon any road or vacant allotment within the district any offensive matter, or any bottles, earthenware, metalware, china, or rubbish of any description.