Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2771

116. The owner of any land or building shall provide the
     same with suitable and sufficient drains to carry away the
     whole of the rainfall and surface water to a point of at least
     25 ft. from any house, and so that such water cannot flow,
     spread, or soak beneath any building.

117. It shall be lawful for the Inspector of Nuisances and
     any other officers of the Board, at any time between the
     hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on any day except Sunday, to
     enter into and inspect any land or building for the purpose
     of ascertaining whether such premises or any water-closet,
     earth-closet, urinal, drain, bath, sink, lavatory, overflow or
     waste-pipe, receptacle, or other sanitary appliance or thing
     contained therein complies with the provisions of these by-
     laws, or whether any breach of these by-laws has been com-
     mitted in any respect whatever, and no person shall wilfully
     obstruct or hinder such officer or other person as aforesaid in
     the exercise of such powers. It shall be lawful for the person
     inspecting any premises as aforesaid to dig up and open any
     part of the ground, or remove any part of any building on
     such premises, for the purpose of examining any drain or
     pipe, or trap or other appliance: Provided always that the
     person inspecting as aforesaid shall not dig up or open any
     ground, or remove any part of a building as aforesaid, without
     having given to the occupier of the said premises, or the
     owner thereof, or his agent at least twelve hours’ previous
     notice of his intention in that behalf; nor in any case unless
     such person shall have reason to suspect that some nuisance
     exists upon the premises in question, or on any premises in
     the vicinity thereof, and he shall not have been able to dis-
     cover the cause of such nuisance upon any ordinary inspec-
     tion of such premises; nor unless he shall have reason to
     believe that the drain, or pipe, or trap, or other appliance he
     desires to inspect exists under, or behind, or in the immediate
     vicinity of the ground or part of building intended to be
     interfered with as aforesaid, and is probably defective, and
     also the probable cause of the nuisance existing, or suspected
     to exist, upon the said premises, or on any premises in the
     vicinity thereof: Provided also that in digging up and open-
     ing such ground or removing such part of building as afore-
     said, as little ground or as small a part of the building as
     reasonably can be shall be dug up or opened or removed (as
     the case may be), and as little damage done to the premises
     as can be; and unless some defect or nuisance shall be found
     requiring attention, such ground or building shall forthwith
     be reinstated in a good and workmanlike manner by or at
     the expense of the Board.

Stables, &c., to be kept clean.

118. The occupier of any land on which is erected any
     stable, cow-yard, cattle-shed, or on which land is erected any
     building wherein any horse or other beast of draught or
     burden or any cattle are kept, shall cause such premises to
     be kept in such a state in respect to cleanliness as not to be
     a nuisance or injurious to health, and shall cause all soil,
     dung, or any other manure produced or accumulated therein
     to be from time to time removed from such premises as often
     as the quantity of the same so produced or accumulated shall
     amount to 1 cubic yard, or once at least in every week should
     the quantity not amount in that time to 1 cubic yard. No
     soil, dung, or other manure produced or accumulated in any
     stable, cow-shed, cattle-shed, or any such building as afore-
     said shall, upon or after the removal, be deposited by any
     person within 20 ft. from any public or private place. And
     in any case manure so removed, when deposited, shall be
     immediately incorporated with earth for garden purposes, or
     be satisfactorily covered over to prevent the escape of effluvia
     therefrom by the owner or occupier of the land upon which
     the same has been deposited.

119. Every owner of a building or premises wherein or
     whereon any horse or other beast of draught or burden or
     any cattle may be kept shall provide in connection with such
     building or premises a suitable receptacle for dung, manure,
     soil, filth, or other offensive matter 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, which
     receptacle shall not be placed at a less distance than 15 ft.
     from any road, street, or footpath, nor from any dwelling-
     house, and shall be constructed of brick or stone set in cement,
     or of cement concrete, and shall cause such receptacle to be
     constructed so that the bottom or floor thereof shall not in
     any case be less than 3 in. above the surface of the ground
     adjoining such receptacle, and in such a manner and to be
     maintained at all times in such a condition as to prevent
     any effluvia therefrom, or any escape of the contents thereof,
     or any soakage therefrom into the ground or into the wall
     of any building. Such owner shall likewise provide in con-
     nection with such building or premises an underground drain,
     constructed in such a manner and maintained at all times in
     such a condition as effectively to convey all urine or liquid
     filth therefrom into a properly trapped drain, connected with
     a final outfall approved by the Inspector of Nuisances.

PART VI.
NEW ROADS AND STREETS.

The following conditions must be complied with before new
roads or streets are taken over by the Ostend Road Board:—
No. 1: Plans.—Engineering plans showing longitudinal and
cross sections of the proposed road or street, with specifica-
tions of the work proposed to be done, also a plan of proposed
subdivision, must be lodged for approval; each plan to show
all culverts, cesspits, and drains, and the manner of disposal
of storm-water from the road or street; and if approved by
the Board such plan and specification shall remain in the
Board’s office and become the property of the Ostend Road
Board.

No. 2: Fees.—A fee of £2 2s. (two pounds two shillings)
must be paid when lodging plans and specifications at the
Board’s office to cover costs of inspection by the Board’s
Engineer.

No. 3: Grades.—As a rule grades must not be steeper than
1 in 15, but in extreme cases where the conformity of the
ground would make 1 in 15 impracticable the grades may
be steeper; but in no case must grades be steeper than
1 in 12. Grades must be as long as possible. Short grades
to avoid cuttings and fillings will not be allowed.

No. 4: Batters.—Batters of cuttings to be 1 in 1, and of
fillings 1½ to 1; and in no case will the Board permit drainage
of storm-water, or storm-water from sections, to flow over
any cutting or filling. Approved channels or drains must
be provided for these purposes.

No. 5: Formation.—No road or street shall be of less a
width than 66 ft., but it shall only be compulsory to make
the cutting at least 15 ft. wide, provided that at intervals
provision is made for the passing of vehicles by making the
cutting at least 20 ft. wide; the centre shall be 3 in. higher
than the sides, forming a crown of ¾ in. to the foot.

No. 6: Metalling.—The road or street must be metalled
with such metal as is procurable in the Ostend Road Dis-
trict, or such metal as is approved by the Board, and not
to be larger than will pass through a 2½ in. ring. The centre
of the roadway and for 6 ft. each side of same is all that shall
be required to be metalled, and shall be of a depth of 6 in.
in the centre to 3 in. at the sides; the road to be blinded in
the centre and for 2 ft. each side of same with clay, earth,
sand, or shell, as the Board may decide.

No. 7: No road or street shall be taken over by the Board
until two calendar months after completion of work, to allow
for slips, cracks, or any shrinkage that may occur within that
time being put right before dedication of the road or street
takes place, and all work must be to the satisfaction of the
Board before dedication.

These regulations are subject to amendment or alteration
as determined by the Board.

PART VII.
BEACHES, RESERVES, ETC.

Taking Sand, &c.

119A. Any person resident within the district who may
require sand, shell, shingle, rock, soil, or any other thing
forming part of the beaches or foreshore, the property of the
Board, may, at the discretion and with the consent of the
Board in that behalf first had and obtained, be supplied with
the same by any person authorized in that behalf of the
Board at a rate to be fixed by the Board not exceeding 3s.
per yard. Application for such sand, shell, shingle, rock,
soil, or other thing shall be made in writing to the Clerk.

120. No person shall, without the permission of the Board
     in that behalf, take or carry away or remove from any of the
     said beaches or foreshores any sand, shell, shingle, rock, soil,
     or other thing.

Damaging Trees, &c.

121. No person shall remove or carry away, or bend, break,
     twist, swing upon, climb upon, cut, bark, burn, disfigure,
     root up, or in anywise damage or destroy any tree, sapling,
     shrub, plant, fern, bush, flowers, creepers, or underwood,
     being the property of, or vested in, or under the control or
     management of the Board.

Depositing Rubbish.

122. No person shall place, throw, deposit, or put upon
     the said beaches or foreshore, or upon any reserve or other
     property vested in or under the control of the Board, or
     upon any public place, any bottle, broken glass, chinaware,
     garbage, filth, dirt, tins, hoops, iron, rubbish, or offensive
     matter of any description whatsoever, or wilfully break or
     destroy thereon any bottle, glass, chinaware, or other matter,
     substance, or thing likely to be a danger or menace to persons
     using such beaches, foreshore, reserves, or other property.

Animals on Beaches.

123. No person shall take, ride, drive, or have any horse
     or other animal on any of the said beaches or foreshores at
     other than a walking pace only.