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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 97

to such dwellinghouse, nor from any building, shop,
or office in which any person may or may be in-
tended to be employed in any manufacture, trade,
or business, other than a detached washhouse used
exclusively for domestic purposes, nor from any
place of public worship, or any public hall or school.
Every privy shall be so situated that the pan can
be removed and the contents disposed of without
the same having to be carried through any house,
shop, factory, or workshop.

(b.) Every privy, other than a water-closet, shall be so con-
structed or altered that at least one of its sides shall
be an external wall. The floor, including the space
under the seat, shall be of good, sound timber,
planed, tongued, and grooved, or of brick or cement,
and shall be at least 6 in. above the level of the
ground immediately adjoining thereto. It shall be
properly lighted and ventilated, and the door shall
be in a position best adapted to conceal the interior
from the public view. The seat shall be capable
of being opened or removed for the entire width, for
the purpose of cleaning the space beneath. Battens
shall be placed on the floor beneath the seat so as to
secure that the pan shall be so placed that all ex-
creta shall fall directly into the pan.

(c.) Every privy shall be provided with a removable water-
tight metal receptacle made in accordance with such
model pan as may from time to time be deposited
at the Board’s office as a pattern of a “regulation
pan”: Provided that if before the coming into
force of this by-law the owner or occupier has pro-
vided a removable watertight receptacle with at least
two handles, and of not greater capacity than 2 cubic
feet, it shall not be compulsory upon the owner
or occupier of the premises to provide the “regula-
tion pan” herein specified until served with a notice
in writing by the Inspector of Nuisances requiring
him so to do.

Disinfectants.

100. Every owner or occupier of any house within the
     district shall provide and keep convenient to the privy a box
     containing dry earth, disinfectant, or lime, to be used daily
     in such privy or closet as a deoderizer.

101. All privies, closets, and house-drains within the dis-
     trict shall be under the superintendence, government, and
     control of the Board.

102. No privy or closet (except a privy of the nature of a
     water-closet constructed, and being in accordance with
     By-law 98) shall be permitted to be erected or to remain at
     less distance than 15 ft. from any house or building used as a
     dwelling, or from any road, street, or footpath, or 5 ft. from
     the boundary-fence of any used or occupied land or allotment.

103. Whenever a contract shall be subsisting and in force
     between the Board and the contractor providing for the re-
     moval of nightsoil by such contractor from any specified
     portion of the district, or whenever the Board shall itself
     undertake the removal of nightsoil from any specified portion
     of the district, no person shall, without the special consent
     of the Board, bury, or cause, suffer, or allow to be buried,
     any nightsoil in any yard, garden, area, paddock, or other
     place whatsoever in such specified district.

Board may undertake Removal of Nightsoil.

104. The Board may make such provision as it shall think
     fit for the removal, periodically or otherwise, or may at any
     time cause to be removed from any or every dwellinghouse,
     or other tenement, tent, or building, or from any place what-
     soever within the district, at the expense of the owner or
     occupier thereof, any nightsoil, dung, slops, filth, offensive
     matter, refuse, or rubbish of any kind.

105. The Inspector of Nuisances, or any other person or
     persons who may be appointed by the Board for the purpose
     of these by-laws, shall have power to enter into or upon any
     buildings or land within the district for the purpose of effect-
     ing any such removal as in By-law 104 specified, or for
     examining the condition of every privy, drain, closet, pan,
     or earth-box, or for cleansing, constructing, altering, or re-
     pairing the same.

106. No person who shall be engaged in the trades of
     scavenging or the removal of nightsoil within the district
     shall—

(a.) Remove, cart, carry, or transport any offensive matter,
pan, boxes, or other receptacles in any cart, wagon,
float, or other vehicle which has not got the name of
the owner clearly and legibly painted, in letters at
least 2 in. in height in white paint on a dark ground,
on some conspicuous part of such cart, wagon, float,
or other vehicle :

(b.) Convey or remove, or permit the conveyance or removal,
of nightsoil in the district between the hours of
7 a.m. and 10 p.m. :

(c.) Convey or remove into, or permit to be conveyed or
removed through or from, the district any nightsoil
or offensive matter, unless the same shall be enclosed
in pans or other receptacles approved by the Board.

107. No person shall drive, take, conduct, or convey any
     cart, wagon, float, or other vehicle in, through, or upon the
     district or any part thereof, whilst any offensive or noxious
     smell or odour emanates from any such cart, wagon, float,
     or other vehicle, or the contents thereof, nor spill, or cast,
     or allow any nightsoil or other offensive matter to be spilt
     or cast into or upon any road or street, or in or about any
     privy or other place whatsoever.

108. A privy constructed in accordance with By-law 99
     shall be deemed to be a “sufficient privy” within the
     meaning of the Public Health Act, 1908.

109. No owner of any premises shall construct or build
     thereon, or permit to be constructed or built thereon, any
     privy other than a “sufficient privy” as herein defined.

110. No person shall permit any privy, building, ash-pit,
     drain, back yard, or premises of which he shall be the owner
     or occupier within the district to become a nuisance or
     injurious to health.

“Ash-pit” defined.

111. An ash-pit shall not be deemed a “sufficient ash-pit”
     within the meaning of the Public Health Act, 1908, unless the
     same be either—

(a.) A galvanized-iron watertight receptacle of such shape
as to be readily emptied and cleaned, but so that it
shall not be of greater interior capacity than 2 cubic
feet; and it shall be fitted with a close-fitting
covering or door, to be kept shut except when it is
being filled or emptied, and with handles for moving
and emptying the same; or

(b.) A furrow or trench similar to and to be used in the same
manner as is provided by By-law 96 in respect of
the burial of nightsoil, and to in all respects comply
with requirements of the said By-law 96.

112. No person shall make or construct, or use or permit
     to be used, any pit or hole for the reception of drainage from
     any premises within the district unless the same is at least
     25 ft. from any dwellinghouse or road.

Pigs.

113. No person shall keep, or allow or suffer or permit to
     keep, swine or pigs within the district on any holding of less
     than one-half an acre, or shall in any case so keep them as to
     be a nuisance or injurious to health, or erect or permit or allow
     to remain any pigsty at a less distance than 50 ft. from any
     house or from any road or boundary of any occupied neigh-
     bouring property. The floor of every pigsty shall be of
     concrete or other impervious material to the satisfaction of
     the Inspector of Nuisances, and shall be so constructed that
     there shall be no soakage of the soil with pigs’ food, urine, or
     drainage from the sty. And all persons keeping swine shall
     give notice thereof in writing to the Inspector of Nuisances in
     order that he may exercise proper supervision of same.

114. No person shall keep any poultry in any part of the
     district on any allotment of land of a less area than a quarter
     of an acre, and then only in a properly constructed poultry-
     house or in a suitably enclosed run attached thereto, and no
     such poultry-house or run shall be built, constructed, or
     maintained at any less distance than 15 ft. from any dwell-
     ing or any road or street. The floors of all poultry-houses
     of whatever size, and enclosed poultry-runs of less than 150
     square feet, shall be paved with concrete or asphalt; and all
     poultry-runs, of whatever size, shall be cleaned out regularly
     at least once a week, and shall be well limewashed at least
     once in every six months by the occupier of the premises.

Sewage-drains.

115. No person shall construct or allow to remain any
     drain for the carriage of sewage except in accordance with
     the following provisions:—

(a.) In no case shall two or more premises be allowed to
be drained by one common pipe, unless a special
permit has been first obtained from the Board.

(b.) No drain shall pass underneath any house except where
any other course is impracticable, and in such case
the drain shall be of earthenware pipes with cemented
joints and embedded in 6 in. of concrete, or cast-iron
pipes with lead-caulked joints.

(c.) No right-angled junctions shall be permitted in any
drain. All junctions shall be effected by means of
Y-junction pipes. No inlet, except such as may
be necessary for a water-closet, shall be permitted
within or beneath a building to any drain.

(d.) All sanitary fittings shall be placed with their outlets
against or as near as possible to an external wall,
and shall not be directly connected to any drain,
but shall discharge through waste-pipes where neces-
sary outside a building over a gully-trap or over a
watertight concrete channel of not more than 6 ft.
in length leading to a gully-trap.