2702

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 72

with any inflammable material, in the open air at a distance
of less than 30 ft. from any building, fence, street, private
street, or public place, or adjacent land.

(e.) It shall not be lawful to make or place or keep stored
any such stack as aforesaid in any building within the Fire
Board District attached to or at a less distance than 20 ft.
from any other building, unless the roof of such first-mentioned
building is covered with 22-gauge corrugated iron or best-
quality slates, and its walls are constructed wholly of brick,
stone, or concrete, or of any combination of such materials;
provided always that this clause shall in no case apply to the
case of any such agricultural produce required for the keeping
of horses, and stored in any building used only for the bona
fide purpose of or in connection with a stable the storing-
capacity of which shall not exceed 2,000 cubic feet.

(f.) Every occupier of premises, within six days in the case
of stacks of agricultural produce, and forty-eight hours in the
case of other materials, after the service upon him of a notice
in writing from the Superintendent so to do, shall remove
from such premises all stacks of hay, corn, straw, or other
inflammable matter or combustible material which shall have
been made, deposited, or kept on such premises prior to the
coming into force by these by-laws, but which it would have
been under any of the foregoing by-laws illegal to have made,
deposited, or kept thereon had this part of these by-laws
been in force.

6. ELECTRICAL FIRE-ALARM CIRCUITS.

The Board may establish, or contract with any person or
corporation for the establishment of, an electric fire-alarm
circuit, and may from time to time extend such circuit and
provide for the connection therewith of street alarms and
public and private buildings and premises. All connections
shall be carried out to the approval of the Board, at the cost
of the owner of the property to be connected. The cost of
maintenance of all public and private connections, and of the
periodical examination and testing of such connections, shall
be borne by the owner of the property connected, and all
such connections shall be efficiently maintained to the satis-
faction of the Board or the officer appointed by the Board
for that purpose. With the consent of the owner, such cost
may be commuted to the payment of such annual sum as is
agreed on between the Board and the owner.

7. FIRES OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT.

The Superintendent may render such assistance as he may
deem necessary at any fire taking place outside the district,
provided he can do so without jeopardizing the safety of the
Foxton Fire District. For such assistance the Board may
charge the owner of the property endangered such fees as will
recoup the Board the costs incurred.

8. INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS.

The owner or occupier of any building within the district
shall not connect up any electrical installation in such building
until the same has been inspected and approved by an officer
appointed by the Board for such purpose.

The fee payable by the owner or occupier for such inspec-
tion and approval shall, for the first inspection and approval,
be as follows:—

For any building having six points or less: 5s.
For any building having seven to twelve points: 10s. 6d.
For any building having more than twelve points: £1 1s.
And thereafter no fee shall be payable for any inspection.

It shall be the duty of the owner or occupier of any building
in which there shall be any electrical installation in use at the
date of the coming into force of this by-law to notify the
Secretary of the same, and to obtain the approval of the officer
of the Board to the continued use of such installation.

The officer appointed by the Board for such purpose shall
have free access at all reasonable times to any building or
premises, and to any part thereof, in which any electrical
installation shall be used, to view and inspect the state and
condition thereof, and it shall be the duty of the owner and
occupier of the said building and premises to cause the said
electrical installation to be inspected and approved by the
said officer at least once in every three years.

9. INSPECTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

The fee to be paid by the owner or occupier of any building
for the inspection of such building, under the provisions of
section 51 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, shall be according
to the following scale:—

Buildings to seat not more than two hundred persons: 5s.
Buildings to seat more than two hundred but not more
than three hundred persons: 7s. 6d.
Buildings to seat more than three hundred persons: 10s.

The owner and occupier of any such building shall be
severally liable for the payment of the proper fee according
to the above scale.

10. PAYMENT OF FEES.

All fees payable under these by-laws shall be payable to
the Secretary of the Board on demand.

11. PENALTIES.

Every person guilty of an offence against, or committing
any breach of, or failing to perform any duty imposed upon him
by any of the provisions of these by-laws shall be liable for
such offence, breach, or failure to such a penalty not exceeding
£20 as the Court inflicting the same shall, in its discretion,
think fit; and in each case in which such offence, breach, or
failure shall be a continuing one, to such a penalty not
exceeding £5 as such Court shall think fit for every day or
part of a day during which such offence, breach, or failure
shall continue.

At a special meeting of the Foxton Fire Board held in the
Town Hall Supper-room, Foxton, on Friday, the 21st day of
July, 1922, it was resolved that the by-laws as passed at such
meeting be the by-laws of the Foxton Fire Board.

JOHN K. HORNBLOW, Member.
R. BRYANT, Member.
H. FRANKLAND, Secretary.

The foregoing by-laws of the Foxton Fire Board are
approved this 29th day of September, 1922.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VI, Waiapu Survey
District, for the Purposes of a District Nurse's Cottage,
Kahukura.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under
the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to
execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of
a district nurse's cottage, Kakukura, in Block VI, Waiapu
Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work
the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be
taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of
the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-
office at Kahukura, and is there open for inspection; and
that all persons affected by the execution of the said public
work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have
any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said
public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the
same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days
from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of
Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken:
4 acres 1 rood 29 perches.
Portion of Tikitiki Block, situated in Block VI, Waiapu
Survey District (Poverty Bay R.D.). (S.O. 1005, brown.)

In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 55082,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
edged red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 2nd day of
October, 1922.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Uawa County
Council.—Notice No. 2211.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 29th September, 1922.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the
Uawa County Council has, by special order, declared
Japanese wineberry (Rubus phoenicolasius) to be a noxious
weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908,
in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 29th September, 1922.

I HEREBY acknowledge receipt of the sum of £1,
forwarded to the District Treasury Officer, Auckland,
by a person unknown, as conscience-money to the New
Zealand Government.

Also the receipt of the sum of 8s. 2d., forwarded to the
Railway Department at Dunedin by a person unknown, as
conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

J. J. ESSON, Secretary to the Treasury.