Oct. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3591

that the pan shall be so placed that all excreta shall fall therein.

(c.) All privies for the reception of nightsoil (not being water-closets) shall be pan privies with movable receptacles for the nightsoil. Such receptacles shall be watertight metal pans of a size and pattern approved by the Board.

(d.) The occupier of any shop, house, factory, workshop, or any other premises provided with a pan privy, shall cause the pans thereof to be emptied and properly cleaned at least once in each week, and in any case so frequently as to prevent of overflow.

(e.) The occupier, and where the premises are not occupied the owner, of the premises on which any pan privy is situated shall keep such privy in a good state of repair and in a clean and sanitary condition.

3. No person shall place or deposit nightsoil in a pit or other fixed receptacle in the ground, or spread nightsoil upon the surface of the ground, or bury nightsoil, within 33 ft. of any church, hall, house, shop, factory, or workshop, or within 20 ft. of the boundary of any adjoining land. No person shall dispose of nightsoil so as to create a nuisance. 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 along the bottom of such furrow or trench and covered with earth level with the surface, and so that the nightsoil shall be forthwith covered with at least 6 in. of earth.

4. No person shall keep, or allow, suffer, or permit to be kept, any pig within the district on any holding of less than 1 acre in area, or shall in any case so keep any pig as to be a nuisance or injurious to health, or keep, or suffer, permit, or allow to be kept, any pig in any pigsty at a less distance than 100 ft. from any house or from any road. The owner or occupier of any land upon which pigs shall be kept shall cause the floor of every pigsty thereon to be constructed of concrete or other impervious material, and to be so maintained that there shall be no soakage of the soil with the pigs’ food, urine, or drainage from the sty. The owner of or occupier of any land upon which there shall be a pigsty shall keep such sty at all times in a clean and wholesome condition.

5. No person shall erect, or cause to be erected, any stable at less distance than 15 ft. from any boundary of neighbouring property, dwellinghouse, public building, or church. The floor of any stable now or hereafter erected shall be constructed of concrete or other impervious material, and shall be laid with a proper fall into a trapped drain, and such floor and drain be kept in a thorough state of repair. No person shall allow an accumulation of animal excreta or manure to remain on any property so as to cause a nuisance.

6. Should any stable existing at the coming into force of this by-law, and not constructed in accordance with the foregoing provisions, cause a nuisance or an injury to health owing to its mode of construction, or to the absence of any structural convenience therein or thereto, or by reason of any matter or thing whatsoever, it shall be the duty of the owner or occupier of such stable, upon notice being served upon him by the Clerk so to do, and within a time by such notice limited, to execute and do such works and things as may be necessary to abate such nuisance as may be specified in such notice.

7. Every occupier of a building or premises wherein or whereon any horse or other beast of draught or burden, or any cattle or swine, may be kept shall provide in connection with such building or premises a suitable covered 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. Such receptacle shall not be erected within 15 ft. of any dwellinghouse or place in which any person is employed in any manufacture, trade, or business, or in which any food intended for human consumption is stored, or within 20 ft. from any public road. He shall at least once in every week remove, or cause to be removed, from the receptacle provided in accordance with the requirements of this by-law, all dung, manure, soil, filth, or other offensive or noxious matter produced in or upon such building or premises and deposited in such receptacle.

8. No live animal shall be kept in the district so as or in such manner as to be a nuisance or injurious to health.

9. No poultry shall be kept in any part of the district; except in properly constructed poultry-houses, or in a suitably enclosed run attached thereto; and no such poultry-houses shall be built less than 16 ft. from any dwelling, or from any public or private street or public place or boundary-fence. No such run shall have its outer fence at a less distance than 3 ft. from any boundary of adjoining premises, or 6 ft. from any public or private street or public place; and all poultry-houses shall be well lime-washed inside at least once in every six months by the occupier of the premises, and all runs be clean and free from filth.

10. The penalty for any breach of these by-laws shall be a fine not exceeding £5, and in the case of a continuous breach an additional fine not exceeding £5 for every day on which the breach is continued after the first day.

11. If, in the opinion of the Board, a full compliance with any provision of these by-laws would needlessly injuriously affect the course and operation of business, or be attended with great loss, hardship, or inconvenience to any person without a corresponding benefit to the community, the Board may on special application relax the strict observance of any provision, or modify the same, provided that such other terms and conditions as the Board may impose be complied with by the applicant.

12. The by-laws shall apply to the whole district. They shall come into force on their being gazetted.

The foregoing by-laws were duly made by the Avondale Road Board by special order passed and adopted at a special meeting of the said Board convened for that purpose on the 28th day of August, 1918, publicly notified in the Avondale News on the 31st day of August, 1918, on the 7th day of September, 1918, on the 14th day of September, 1918, and on the 21st day of September, 1918; confirmed on the 2nd day of October, 1918, and ordered to come into force on being gazetted.

The common seal of the Inhabitants of the Avondale Road District was affixed hereto at a meeting and by order of the Avondale Road Board on the 9th day of October, 1918.

R. B. NESBITT, Chairman. ROBERT WARD.
H. A. V. BOLLARD. A. MORGAN.
J. THOMAS. FRANK W. HAMPSHIRE.
W. J. TAIT.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly passed as provided by the Road Boards Act, 1908.

S. THOMAS, Clerk.

Constitution of a Special Roading District in Terms of Section 50 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913.

PURSUANT to section 50 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and the regulations thereunder, I, David Henry Guthrie, Minister of Lands, do hereby, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the Wellington Land District, declare the lands referred to in the Schedule hereto to be a special district for the purposes of the said section; and such district shall be known as the Mangaorakei Special Road District.

As witness my hand this 18th day of October, 1918.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Section 2, Block VIII, Retaruke Survey District.

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Trading with Enemy Acts.—Certificate of Hostile Occupation in regard to certain Territory in Russia.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1918.

THE appended extract from the London Gazette of 13th August, 1918, is published for general information (vide New Zealand Gazettes of 15th August, 1918, and 12th September, 1918).

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Customs.

War Office, 13th August, 1918.

I, GEORGE KYNASTON COCKERILL, C.B., a Brigadier-General in His Majesty’s Army, being a person authorized by a Secretary of State to give certificates under paragraph 3 of the Trading with the Enemy (Occupied Territory) Proclamation, 1915, hereby certify that in addition to the territory comprised in the certificate given by me on the 9th May, 1918, the following territory in Russia may be regraded as territory in hostile occupation :—

Vorenezh. Tiflis.
Erivan.