3588
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 143

(k.) While acting as the driver of any cart, dray, or wagon,
or such other vehicle, suffer the same to remain
standing longer thereon than the time reasonably
necessary for loading or unloading goods.

(l.) Leave thereon any vehicle without any horse or other
animal harnessed thereto, except in the case of some
accident having recently occurred.

(m.) Ride, lead, or drive any horse or other animal, or
lead, drive, or wheel any carriage or cart, upon,
along, or across any footpath or water-channel
except upon and by means of a crossing properly
constructed under the provisions of these by-laws
or any by-laws heretofore in force.

(n.) Lead, drive, or wheel any wheelbarrow, handcart, or
other similar vehicle along any footpath or water-
channel.

(o.) Cause any animal or any carriage, cart, wheelbarrow,
handcart, or other similar vehicle to stand or rest
upon or along any footpath or crossing, or any water-
channel, save as is permitted in these by-laws.

15. No person shall loiter, stand, or remain in or upon or
    use any street, private street, footpath, or footway for such
    time or in such manner as shall have the effect of obstructing
    or disturbing the free use thereof or the access to any house
    or building in or near thereto.

16. No person shall in or near any street, private street,
    footpath, footway, or public place, by singing, playing any
    musical instrument, preaching, reading, speaking, lecturing,
    selling or crying wares, exhibiting any object or thing, or
    causing or allowing the doing of any of the aforesaid things,
    or by any other means whatever, cause the collection or
    assembling of persons whereby such street or public place,
    or any neighbouring street, private street, footpath, footway,
    or public place, or the traffic thereof, is obstructed, disturbed,
    or hindered, or whereby access to any house or building in
    or near any street, private street, or public place is obstructed.

17. No person shall in any street, private street, footpath,
    footway, or public place sing, play any musical instrument,
    preach, read, lecture, sell or cry wares, or exhibit any object
    or thing, or make any noise or loud sounds, or cause or by
    conduct invite others to do any of the aforesaid acts, whereby
    the peace and quiet of any persons residing in or using or
    being in any neighbouring house or building are disturbed,
    or whereby the proceedings of any congregation, assemblage,
    or meeting are disturbed, or annoyance caused to any person
    attending such congregation, assemblage, or meeting.

18. So much of the foregoing provisions of paragraph 17
    as relates to the obstruction of public places shall be deemed
    to apply only to such public places and such parts of public
    places as are commonly used as thoroughfares.

19. No person shall frequent or use any street, private
    street, or other public place within the district, either on
    behalf of himself or any other person, for the purpose of
    bookmaking, or transacting or entering into any part of the
    business of a bookmaker or of a betting agent, or betting,
    or wagering, or agreeing or proposing to bet or wager with
    any person.

20. No person shall spit or expectorate or otherwise cast
    or place his saliva on to or upon any footpath or footway.

PART II.

Licensed Billiard and Bagatelle Rooms.

1. No person shall use any building, part of a building, or
   enclosure for purposes of a billiard or bagatelle room wherein
   billiards or any similar games are played for payment, and
   to which the public have admission, until he shall have
   obtained from the Board a license so to do, and shall have
   paid to the Clerk of the Board a fee of £2 sterling for such
   license, and every such license shall be in force for one
   year from the date thereof. The owner or occupier of any
   such building shall apply in writing to the Board for a license,
   stating the situation and description of the building, the names
   of the owner and occupier, and the purpose for which it is
   to be used.

2. Every owner or occupier of any billiard-room wherein
   billiards or any similar games are played for payment, and
   to which the public have admission, shall close the same on
   all week-days at half past ten o’clock at night.

3. The Board may cancel or suspend the license issued
   to the owner or occupier of any billiard-room or bagatelle-
   room in the district, if the same is conducted in a noisy or
   disorderly manner so as to cause annoyance to the neighbour-
   ing inhabitants or to the public, and in such case the licensee
   of such billiard-room shall not be entitled to any refund of
   any part of the fee paid for the license thereof; provided
   that the Board shall, before exercising the power hereby
   conferred, give the licensee of such billiard-room an oppor-
   tunity of showing cause why the license thereof should not
   be cancelled or suspended.

PART III.

Building and Overcrowding By-law.

1. No person shall erect a new building within the district,
   except in conformity with the following provisions:—

(a.) Definition of Site.—The ground upon which any build-
ing 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 building within the meaning of these
by-laws.

(b.) Definition of New Dwellinghouse.—The erection of a
dwellinghouse upon vacant land, or upon a site pre-
viously occupied by any building, or the re-erection
of any house pulled down to within 5 ft. of the ground
floor, or the conversion into a dwellinghouse of any
building not originally constructed for human habita-
tion, or the conversion into more than one dwelling-
house of a building originally constructed as one
dwellinghouse only, or an addition to or raising of
a house (so far as such addition or raising is con-
cerned), or the procuring of an existing dwellinghouse
or of any other building or part of a building in-
tended to be re-erected and used as a dwellinghouse
or part of a dwellinghouse, and placing the same
upon a site in the district, shall be deemed to be
the erection of a new dwellinghouse within the mean-
ing of this Part of these by-laws.

(c.) Notice of Intention to build.—Every person who shall
intend to erect, add to, or renew a building of any
description whatsoever shall give to the Board notice
in writing of such intention, and at the same time
deposit with the Board complete plans and specifica-
tions in duplicate (whereof one set shall be retained
by the Board) of such intended work, the position,
form, and dimensions of such building, and every
water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ashpit, cesspool, and
all other appurtenances, and of the yard or ground
belonging thereto, and of the open space in the
front and in the rear and on each side; and the
building shall be so described as to show whether
it is intended to be used as a dwellinghouse or
dwellinghouses, or otherwise, and shall give such
further particulars as may be required; and no
such work shall be commenced until such plans and
specifications have been inspected by the proper
officer of the Board, and a certificate given by him
that the work may be commenced.

(d.) Building-site Area.—Except as hereinafter provided, no
person shall erect a new dwellinghouse in the dis-
trict upon a site of less area than one-quarter of
an acre, and unless such site shall have a frontage
of at least 50 ft. to a public road; provided that
nothing in this clause shall be deemed to prevent
the erection of a new dwellinghouse upon any land
which has a frontage of less than 50 ft. to a public
road if—

(1.) The said dwellinghouse shall have an uninter-
rupted and unbroken frontage for its full width to
a public road; and

(2.) The area of such land shall be as follows:—

(i.) Not less than three-eighths of an acre, if the
frontage thereof to a public road is less
than 50 ft. but not less than 40 ft.

(ii.) Not less than four-eighths of an acre, if the
frontage thereof to a public road is less
than 40 ft.

(iii.) Not less than five-eighths of an acre, if the
frontage thereof to a public road is less
than 30 ft. but not less than 20 ft.

(e.) Where a new dwellinghouse shall be erected upon any
land in conformity with these by-laws, no person
shall reduce or cause to be reduced the area provided
for thereby so as or in such manner that such area
shall become less than the minimum area hereby
provided for, and such area shall be maintained as
the exclusive curtilage of and shall solely appropriate
to every such new dwellinghouse.

(f.) Where any new dwellinghouse shall be erected in con-
formity with these by-laws upon any land, no person
shall sell or dispose of, or purchase or acquire, any
estate or interest less than the whole of the minimum
area provided for by these by-laws.

(g.) Clause (f) of paragraph 1 of this Part of these by-laws
shall not apply if no house shall be upon the land
at the time of such sale, disposition, purchase, or
acquisition.

(h.) Site Formation.—The ground on which any new dwell-
inghouse is to be erected, and the ground immedi-
ately adjoining any such new dwellinghouse, shall be
so formed and graded by the person erecting the