Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2769

78. No person shall use any building, part of a building, or enclosure for the purposes of a billiard-room or a bagatelle-room, bowling or skittle alley, or shooting-gallery, 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 a fee of £2 2s. sterling for such license for one year or for any less period. Application for such license shall be made in writing to the Clerk.

79. No person shall keep billiard or bagatelle rooms, bowling or skittle alley, or shooting-gallery open, nor allow nor permit any game to be played or shooting to be carried on therein respectively, between the hours of 11 o’clock at night and 6 o’clock of the following morning, or between the hours of 11 o’clock on Saturday night and 6 o’clock on Monday morning.

80. No person under the age of sixteen years shall enter or remain in any billiard or bagatelle room unless he shall be accompanied by his parent or guardian; and no keeper or licensee of any such room shall permit, suffer, or allow to enter or remain therein any such person unless he shall be in the company of his parent or guardian.

PART IV.
PUBLIC VEHICLES.
Vehicles to be licensed.

81. No carriage shall carry passengers or goods, or ply for hire within the district, or between places beyond and within the district, until and unless the same be duly licensed as hereinafter mentioned, and no person shall let to hire, use, or employ any carriage hereinbefore mentioned or defined, within the limits aforesaid, unless and until the same be so licensed.

82. The Board may from time to time license to ply for hire within the limits of the district any such carriage as it shall think fit. The license fee for any such carriage not exceeding 1½ tons shall be £1 per annum.

Application for License.

83. Such license shall only be granted on the written application for the same of the owner or owners of the carriage to be licensed, and in every such license shall be specified the name and surname and place of abode of every owner of the carriage in respect of which the license is granted, and the name of the district, and every such license shall be signed by the Clerk.

Approval of Vehicle.

84. He shall also produce such carriage as directed by the Traffic Inspector, and if upon inspection the Inspector shall certify such carriage to be constructed and equipped so as to be in a fit and proper condition, and sufficiently convenient in all respects for public use, and the license be granted, the Inspector shall issue a metal plate bearing the licensed number of such carriage to be affixed upon the same.

Number to be Affixed.

85. The owner shall, during the time such carriage shall be licensed, keep such plate affixed on the right-hand panel of the driver’s seat, and shall cause the number to be also painted, to the satisfaction of the Traffic Inspector, on the panel at the opposite end of the driver’s seat, in such a manner that the same shall be plainly visible and legible.

86. No carriage for the carriage of passengers shall be used or employed unless and until the number of passengers which, according to the license, may be carried by such carriage shall have been affixed to some conspicuous place on the outside of such carriage, in letters of at least 2 in. in length and of a proportionate breadth, and so as to be clearly distinguishable from the colour of the ground whereon the same are painted.

87. The owner, driver, or conductor of any carriage shall not permit to be carried in or by such carriage a greater number of persons than the number which, according to the license, may be carried.

88. The license of any carriage may be revoked, cancelled, or suspended by the Board as it shall deem right, after notice given to the owner, driver, or conductor thereof to show cause why the same should not be revoked, cancelled, or suspended, and opportunity thereupon given him to show such cause.

Lights.

89. The owner or driver of any carriage used for the carriage of passengers after sunset and before sunrise shall cause such carriage to be provided with proper carriage-lamps, and shall keep such lamps properly lighted while such vehicle shall be so used.

90. The owner or driver of every carriage used for the carriage of passengers shall cause a carriage-lamp to be placed and kept inside thereof, and at the end opposite the entrance-door thereof, and shall keep such lamp properly lighted whenever such carriage shall be used to ply for hire or carry passengers at any time after sunset and before sunrise.

91. The owner or driver of every carriage used for the carriage of passengers shall not permit any person to smoke whilst inside such carriage, and shall cause to be printed in legible letters of at least 1 in. in length and of proportionate breadth, and posted inside the said carriage on some conspicuous place, the following words: “No smoking permitted.”

92. The owner or driver of any vehicle used for the carriage of passengers shall keep such vehicle and each horse attached thereto, and all fittings, appliances, furniture, and appointments thereof, thoroughly clean and in good serviceable order and condition, and, as often as required by the Board or any officer thereof, shall thoroughly disinfect such vehicle and appointments.

Time-table.

93. Licensed carriages used for the carriage of passengers shall start and run at such stated times and from such stated places as may be decided on by the respective owners thereof, subject to the approval of the Board; and every owner or driver or conductor of any such carriage starting, or permitting the same to start, before or after the time submitted to and approved by the Board, or plying from any place other than that submitted to and approved by the Board shall be guilty of an offence.

PART V.
SANITARY.
Burial of Nightsoil.

94. No person shall bury, or cause or suffer or allow to be buried, nightsoil within the curtilage of any premises which shall be less than one-half acre in extent or less provided the Board does not object, or within the curtilage of any premises used as an hotel or boardinghouse, and then not within 33 ft. of any road, or any house or public building, or any building in which any person may be or may be intended to be employed in any manufacture, trade, or business within the district.

95. No person shall bury upon any private property the nightsoil produced upon any premises from which a case of infectious disease has been duly notified to the District Health Officer, and during such time as the District Health Officer shall declare the premises to be infected; but all such nightsoil shall be removed and disposed of by the Board at the expense of the occupier, and every pail or pan used for the reception or removal of such nightsoil shall be specially marked, and be retarred after emptying, and cleaning before being used again.

96. 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 therein, each lot as soon as placed to be covered with at least 6 in. of earth, well pressed down flush up to the surface of the ground. No fresh trench shall be opened up within 3 ft. of an old trench at any time within three months of the final closing of such old trench.

Sewage-tank.

97. No person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, any sewage-tank—
    (a.) Unless such tank in its design, position, and method of construction has first been approved by the District Health Officer and by the Inspector of Nuisances; or
    (b.) After the District Health Officer or the Inspector of Nuisances shall, on account of some defect or fault therein, or wrongful use thereof, in writing, notify such person not to use such sewage-tank, and until such notice shall be in writing withdrawn by the person giving the same.

98. No person shall use, or cause or allow to be used, any privy of the nature of a water-closet in the district unless the same be connected with a sewage-tank approved as hereinbefore mentioned, and not the subject of a notice not to use the same under the preceding by-law, and unless the same be furnished with such ventilation and appliances, and such closet and appliances be constructed in all particulars and parts in such manner, of such materials, and with such separate flushing and cleansing apparatus, traps, and pipes, as the Inspector of Nuisances shall require.

99. No person shall construct any privy or closet (other than a water-closet) except in accordance with the following provisions, and the owner and occupier of any premises upon which any such privy or closet exists shall, after two months from the coming into force of this by-law, cause such privy or closet to conform in every respect thereto:—
    (a.) No part of any privy shall be at less than 15 ft. distance from any road, street, or footpath, nor from any dwellinghouse, nor from every part of any wash-house, shed, convenience, or other erection attached