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any building, erection, structure, or other property
of any kind or description belonging to the Board:
(33.) Wilfully extinguish or injure or break any street-
lamp, or wilfully break or injure any lamp-post:
(34.) Drive any dog or goat harnessed or attached to any
vehicle:
(35.) Leave any cart or other vehicle without reasonable
excuse, or loiter therewith in any street:
(36.) Wilfully or negligently encumber or obstruct a public
place in any manner not before specially described:
(37.) Drive any cart, dray, wagon, or express-wagon without
the name and residence of the owner thereof being
painted in a legible and permanent manner on a
conspicuous place on the right or off side, in letters
of at least 1 in. in length:
(38.) Cast away, sweep, throw, or deposit, or cause or suffer
to be cast away, swept, thrown, or deposited, in or
upon any street or private street any handbills,
printed papers, waste paper, or paper of any kind
whatever:
(39.) Sweep, throw, or deposit, or leave, or permit or suffer
any person to sweep, throw, or deposit, or leave,
any refuse, dust, shop-sweepings, or house-sweep-
ings, or any bottles, earthenware, china, tins, or
rubbish of any description, on any road, street,
private street, public place, or reserve:
(40.) Convey, take, or conduct, or cause to be taken, con-
veyed, or conducted, by means of vehicles, horses,
or on foot, or by any means whatsoever, through
any street or private street, any frame apparatus
or contrivance for displaying pictures, placards,
notices, or advertisements, calculated by its shape,
construction, or the colour of any pictures, placards,
notices, or advertisements displayed thereon, to
obstruct, interfere with, or endanger public traffic
in the district:
(41.) Deposit or keep, or suffer to be deposited or kept, any
live ashes in any wooden receptacle outside any
building or in any place which shall be less than
10 ft. from any building in the district:
(42.) Make or light any fire in any building within the dis-
trict situate at a less distance than 50 ft. from any
other building, save in some properly constructed
fireplace:
(43.) Light any bonfire, tar-barrel, or firework upon or
within 30 yards of any public or private street or
any public place:
(44.) Set or cause to be set on fire any chimney, flue, smoke-
vent, stove-pipe, or other erection or appliance used
as and hereinafter called a chimney:
(45.) Suffer to be on fire the chimney of the premises which
he occupies or uses; provided always that no
offence shall be seemed to have been committed if
such person prove to the satisfaction of the Justice
before whom the case is heard that such fire was
in no wise owing to the omission, neglect, or care-
lessness, whether with respect to cleansing such
chimney or otherwise, of himself or his servant:
(46.) Wilfully injure, remove, or destroy any notice-boards
set up by the Board or any of its employees:
(47.) Keep or store any gunpowder or other explosive or
dangerous material in any public shed or place or
on any open space near any building:
(48.) At any one time have or keep in stock in any yard,
dwellinghouse, shop, warehouse, shed, cellar, or
other building within the district a greater quantity
of petroleum than 40 gallons:
(49.) In any street, thoroughfare, or public place, or within
the sight or hearing of any person or persons pass-
ing by, sing, say, or recite any profane song, use
any profane, indecent, or obscene language, or by
phonographic or other such methods convey, paint,
draw, or write any profane, indecent, or obscene
representation, figure, or word, or distribute or
expose or offer for sale or exhibit any profane,
indecent, or obscene book, painting, drawing, en-
graving, photograph, representation, print, or paper-
writing:
(50.) Indecently expose his person in or within view of
passers-by on or in any public place:
(51.) Spit or expectorate, or otherwise cast or place his
saliva on, to, or upon any public footpath or foot-
way:
(52.) Within the district, keep or act or behave as master
or mistress of, or conduct or assist in the conduct
or management of, any brothel or disorderly house
or houses of ill-fame, or shall knowingly let any house
or any part thereof for the purpose of being so kept
or used:
(53.) Ride, drive, or wheel any vehicle of any kind upon
or along any footpath, to the danger or obstruction
of persons using such footpath (the word “vehicle”
shall include a wheelbarrow, bicycle, tricycle, and
every other vehicle upon or with wheels, whatever
its form or construction, except infants’ perambu-
lators containing infants):
(54.) Assemble in any street, or congregate at the corner
of any street or public place, or where any streets
or public places intersect; and no person or per-
sons shall collect or cause any number of persons to
collect or congregate in any street or public place,
or conduct or hold any public meeting therein so
as to impede persons passing, or interfere with the
free passage of any street or public place, or be
guilty of any conduct calculated to annoy the
public:
(55.) Drive, or cause, permit, or allow to be driven, upon or
along any street or private street in the district
any horse, unless the same is securely harnessed to
some vehicle or securely led by a halter, bridle, or
rope fastened to such horse, and held by some
person:
(56.) Suffer, permit, or allow any cattle, or any horse, or
any geese, or any unregistered dog, to wander or be
at large in any public place, street, private street,
or right-of-way, within the district:
(57.) Tether or otherwise put or place any cattle or any
horse, for the purpose of grazing or depasturing
the same, in or upon any public place, street, private
street, or right-of-way within the district:
(58.) Sweep thereon or deposit any refuse, hedge or lawn
clippings, shop-sweepings, house-sweepings, or
rubbish on any street or private street within the
district:
(59.) Being the owner, lessee, or occupier of any building
in the district, use the same, or cause, suffer, permit,
or allow the same to be used, as a theatre, public
hall, public concert-room, public ball-room, public
lecture-room, or public exhibition-room, or as a
public place of assembly for persons admitted
thereto by tickets or otherwise, unless the doors
of such building shall open outwards:
(60.) Leave standing any horse fastened or tied up to any
fence, post, tree, or vehicle in any road or street or
on any reserve or beach.
Driving Round Corner.
- No person shall drive or ride round any street-corner at
other than a walking-pace.
Mischief.
- No person shall wilfully break any pane of glass in
the window of any building, or wilfully break or unlawfully
light or extinguish or injure any lamp in any street.
Sunday Trading.
- No person shall keep open any shop, store, or place of
business whatsoever on Sunday for the purpose of trading
or dealing; provided always that this clause shall not extend
to chemists or refreshment-rooms.
Obstructions on Roads.
- No person shall put, place, or lay any building or other
materials or building-rubbish, or put up, construct, or erect
any stage, scaffolding, hoarding, or fence upon, across, or over
any road, street, footway, channel, or public place without
first obtaining the consent of the Board or the officer appointed
by the Board for that purpose.
Crossings.
- No person shall construct any crossing across any
channel, drain, or footpath, or make any drain under any
footpath. All such crossings and drains shall be constructed
by the Board, but at the expense of the person requiring
same, and any such crossing or drain shall consist of such
material as the Board shall from time to time approve. No
person shall allow anything other than storm-water to pass
through any drain laid under any footpath. Any person
desiring to have a crossing made or drain laid leading from
his property into any road shall make a written application
in that behalf to the Clerk of the Board, and shall, upon
receipt of a notice from the Clerk of the Board stating that
the estimated cost of the construction of such crossing or
drain, as the case may be, pay the amount of such estimated
cost to the Clerk of the Board before the Board shall proceed
with such construction. If any such crossing or drain shall
be out of repair, the owner or occupier of the premises from
which the same leads, or any person for whose use and
benefit the same exists, shall, within seven days after notice
in writing from the Clerk of the Board to that effect stating
the repairs required, properly and completely repair the
same in accordance with such notice, failing which the Board
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NZ Gazette 1921, No 97
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NZ Gazette 1921, No 97
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