APRIL 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 993

Special Order made by the Portobello Road Board making
By-laws.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th March, 1922.
THE following special order, made by the Portobello
Road Board, is published in accordance with the
provisions of the Road Boards Act, 1908.
R. HEATON RHODES,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.
PORTOBELLO ROAD BOARD.
SPECIAL ORDER MAKING BY-LAWS OF THE BODY CORPORATE
UNDER THE NAME OF “THE INHABITANTS OF THE PORTO-
BELLO ROAD BOARD,” AND MADE AND ENACTED BY THE
PORTOBELLO ROAD BOARD.
In pursuance of the powers vested in it by the Road Boards
Act, 1908, the Public Works Act, 1908, the Public Health
Act, 1908, and by all or any other statutes it hereunto
enabling, the Portobello Road Board doth hereby make and
enact the following by-laws, namely:-

1. The short title of this by-law shall be the “Portobello
   Road Board By-Law No. 1, 1921.”
2. This by-law shall come into force on the day
   of , 1922.
   Interpretation.
3. In the interpretation of this by-law the following words
   and phrases shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them
   unless there is something in the subject-matter or the context
   inconsistent with such meaning:-
   “The road district” shall mean the Portobello Road
   District:
   “The Board” shall mean the Road Board of the Porto-
   bello Road District:
   “The Chairman” shall mean the Chairman for the time
   being of the Road Board of the Portobello Road
   District:
   “The Inspector” shall mean any Inspector for the time
   being appointed by the Road Board of the Porto-
   bello Road District in whatsoever capacity, and
   every person now holding such appointment, and
   shall include the District Health Officer or Inspector
   appointed under the Public Health Act, 1908:
   “The Clerk” shall mean the Clerk of the Road Board
   of the Portobello Road District:
   “Approval” shall mean approval by the Clerk or In-
   spector:
   “Approved manner” shall be the manner approved by
   the Clerk or Inspector:
   “The Surveyor” shall mean the Surveyor, Engineer,
   or District Engineer of the Board who act in their
   behalf:
   “Cattle” includes bull, cow, ox, steer, heifer, or calf,
   sheep, ram, ewe, or wether, or goat:
   “Drain” means drain or sewer neither vested in the
   local authority nor under the control of or main-
   tained by the local authority:
   “Dwellinghouse” means a building used or constructed
   or adapted to be used wholly or principally for
   human habitation:
   “External wall” means an outer main wall (not being
   a party wall) of a building, even though adjoining
   the wall of another building, or even though con-
   stituting the wall of some lean-to or other building
   adjoining thereto; the outer wall of such lean-to
   or other building adjoining shall also be deemed an
   external wall for the purposes of this by-law:
   “Living-room” includes every room in a dwellinghouse
   except such as are used exclusively for the purpose
   of a laundry, washhouse, scullery, bathroom, privy,
   or for the storage of goods other than such as are
   or are intended for human consumption:
   “Occupier” in respect of any premises means the person
   by whom or on whose behalf such premises are
   actually occupied, and in the case of a factory
   includes any agent, manager, foreman, or other
   person acting or apparently acting in the general
   management or control of such factory, and in the
   case of any premises not in the actual occupation
   of any person means the owner:
   “Privy” includes earth-closets, water-closets, pan privy,
   and every place for the reception of human faecal
   matter:
   “Pan privy” means a privy in which provision is made
   for the reception of human faecal matter in a mov-
   able metal receptacle:
   “Sanitary appliance” includes privy, urinal, sink, bath,
   lavatory, ashpit, sewage-tank, and any fitting con-
   nected therewith, and any receptacle, appliance, or
   thing for the reception or removal of human or
   animal excreta, sewage, urine, or dirty water, or
   other liquid waste:
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   “Stable” includes any stall, loose-box, byre, pen, shed,
   or any building used or intended to be used for
   stabling or confining any horse or cattle.
   In respect of Public Health.
4. No person shall—
   (a.) Deposit or allow to remain any nightsoil, offal, filth,
   rubbish, or other refuse or offensive matter in any
   part of the road district other than at such place or
   depot as shall or may from time to time be appointed
   or provided by the Board and approved of by the
   District Health Officer in accordance with the pro-
   visions of the Public Health Act, 1908.
   (b.) Keep live poultry in any premises in the road district
   under such conditions as to create a nuisance or to
   be dangerous or injurious to health.
   (c.) Keep, permit, or suffer to remain any fowls or poultry
   in any cellar, room, or enclosed space in any build-
   ing, house, or shop within the road district.
   (d.) Place, throw, or leave, or suffer to remain, on any
   premises in the road district any refuse in such a
   manner or for such a time as to have a tendency to
   encourage rats or other vermin to infest, visit, or
   frequent such premises; and the owner or occupier
   of such premises shall comply with any requisition
   by the Inspector with respect to such accumulation
   of refuse within the time specified in such requisition.
   (e.) The owner and occupier of every building or premises
   shall take all reasonable practicable precautions to
   prevent such building or premises being infested, or
   continuing to be infested, with rats, mice, flies, or
   other vermin or insects likely to contaminate any
   article of food for human consumption, or cause
   or spread any disease. The owner and occupier of
   such building or premises so infested through his
   omission or neglect to take all reasonably practic-
   able precautions as aforesaid shall be guilty of an
   offence.
   (f.) Throw or leave any dead animal or part thereof, or
   animal-remains, or offensive matter of any kind,
   upon any place, or into any river, creek, stream, or
   other water, or on the banks thereof.
   (g.) Bury any horse, cattle, sheep, pig, dog, or other animal
   within 2 chains of any public or private road or street,
   or public place, or of any dwelling; and any person
   burying any such animal shall do so at such a depth
   and in such a manner as to prevent any nuisance or
   any danger to health therefrom to the approval of
   the Inspector.
   (h.) Throw or place any garden cuttings, rubbish, or any
   other substance or refuse into any river, stream, or
   watercourse whereby the flow of water therein may
   be impeded.
   (i.) Suspend or place any carcase, meat, or offal so as to
   overhang any part of a public place or encroach
   thereon.
   (j.) Deposit in or discharge into any river, stream, or
   watercourse, or on the banks thereof, any sawdust,
   refuse, chemicals, household sewage, nightsoil, waste
   matter, or any other matter or thing which may
   pollute such river, stream, or watercourse so as to
   become, or cause such river, stream, or watercourse
   to become, a nuisance or injurious to the public
   health.
   (k.) Deposit in or on or near the bank of any river, stream,
   or watercourse any house-refuse, offensive matter,
   or any other material, matter, or thing of any
   description.
   (l.) Permit or cause any offensive liquid or matter to run
   or flow from any land, premises, manufactory, or
   any establishment for the boiling or preparing of
   any animal matter, or any brewery, slaughterhouse,
   butcher’s shop, or any inn, house, or premises, or
   from any dunghill, closet, privy, cesspool, or other
   receptacle, into or upon any street, public or private,
   or any right-of-way, or any footway or channel.
   (m.) Suffer or allow any waste or impure or other matter
   to remain in any cellar or place within any building
   or premises in the road district, or allow any waste
   or impure water or other matter to run or flow
   from any such building or premises into any river,
   stream, or watercourse within the road district, or
   to run or flow from any such building or premises
   upon or over or be on any carriage-way, or footway,
   or gutter, or water-channel, street (public or private),
   or other place whether public or private, within the
   road district, or shall allow the contents of any water-
   closet, privy, or cesspool to overflow or soak there-
   from so as to be offensive.
   (n.) Carry on, or permit to be carried on, within the said
   road district any noisome, noxious, or offensive
   trade or manufacturing business which shall in any
   manner whatsoever be a nuisance to the neighbour-