Oct. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2529

Rates of Pay.

80. Members of the brigade will be paid for attendances at fires in accordance with the following schedule:—
    (1.) Firemen shall receive pay at the rate of three shillings (3s.) per hour or any part of an hour.
    (2.) For false alarms and chimneys and other fires when not required to leave the station the rate of pay will be two shillings (2s.) per man.

81. The sum of one pound ten shillings (£1 10s.) per annum, payable in two half-yearly instalments of fifteen shillings (15s.) each of the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December in each year, will be paid as boot allowance to all members of brigades who have been at least six months in the brigades and who shall have attended at not less than two-thirds of the drills or practices and not less than two-thirds of the musters required to be held under paragraph 50 during the preceding half-yearly period.

Brigades may make Rules.

82. Subject to the approval of the Board, and provided they in no way conflict with the Board’s by-laws, any brigade may make rules and regulations for its own government.

Donations received by Brigades.

83. Donations by the public in recognition of the services of any brigade shall be the property of the brigade, and shall be used for the recreation and comfort or otherwise for the benefit of the members of such brigade.

In respect of Fires outside the District.

84. If any brigade or any portion of any brigade established and maintained by the Board within the district attends and performs any services at any fire in any building outside the district at the request of the owner or occupier of such building, then such owner or occupier shall pay to the Board for such attendances and services the following fees:—
    For the first hour or fraction of an hour .. £5
    For each subsequent hour or fraction of an hour .. £5

PART III.

REGULATION OF THE STORAGE OF INFLAMMABLE SUBSTANCES.

85. It shall not be lawful to make or place or keep stored, or suffer to remain on any premises within the district, any stack of hay, corn, straw, or other agricultural produce belonging to the class of cereals, or to cover any such stack with any inflammable material, in the open air at a distance of less than thirty feet (30 ft.) from any building.

86. If any person shall within the district store benzine, kerosene, explosives, empty crates, cases, ot other packages, shavings, hay, straw, or other inflammable substances contrary to the provisions of the by-laws of the Hastings Borough Council for the time being in force relating thereto, the Inspector may by written notice require such person within the space of forty-eight hours (48 hours) from the receipt by him of such notice to remove the same. If such person shall fail to comply with any such notice, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this by-law.

87. No person shall keep or store for the purposes of sale within the district any matches, except safety matches, unless the boxes or other coverings containing such matches are kept stored or contained in a closed metal container or receptacle.

FIRE-ALARM CIRCUITS.

88. The Board may within the district 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 alarms in streets and public and private buildings and premises. All connections of alarms installed in public or private buildings or premises, and all alterations to the same, shall be carried out to the approval of the Board at the cost of the owner of the property connected; and the cost of maintenance and of periodical examination and testing of such connections shall be borne by the owner of the peoperty connected, and all such connections shall be efficiently maintained to the satisfaction of the Board or of the Inspector approved by the Board for that purpose.

With the consent of the owner of any premises so connected such cost may be commuted for the payment of such annual sum as may be agreed upon between the Board and such owner.

SCALE OF FEES FOR INSPECTIONS OF BUILDINGS UNDER SECTION 51 OF THE ACT.

89. The following fees shall be paid by the owners or occupiers of buildings for the inspection of such buildings under section 51 of the Act, namely:—

Buildings used for purposes of public workshops: Five shillings (5s.) each building.
Buildings used for public meetings, or as assembly-rooms or as theatres, music-halls, dancing-halls, or for any public performances or public amusements: Ten shillings and sixpence (10s. 6d.) each.

And no license shall be issued by any local authority for the use of any building within the district for any of the purposes referred to in the said section until the said fees shall have been paid.

The said fees shall be payable whether, as the result of such inspection, any such license shall be issued or not.

90. This by-law shall come into force on the fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

The foregoing by-law was duly made by the Hastings Fire Board by resolution of the Board passed at a meeting of the Board convened and held for that purpose on the 19th day of March, 1924, and sealed with the seal of the Board on the 19th day of March, 1924, in pursuance of an order of the Board made on the said 19th day of March, 1924, and recorded in the Board’s minute-book.

Sealed with the common seal of the Hastings Fire Board on the 19th day of March, 1924, in the presence of—

G. A. MADDISON, Chairman.
S. T. TONG, \ Members of
P. M. COHR, / the Board.
J. B. PICKERING, Secretary.

The foregoing by-law is hereby approved this 7th day of October, 1924.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-law made by the Hastings Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th October, 1924.

THE following by-law made by the Hastings Fire Board is published in accordance with the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

COPY OF RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE HASTINGS FIRE BOARD AT ITS QUARTERLY MEETING HELD ON 10TH SEPTEMBER, 1924.

THAT by-law Number 1 passed on the 19th day of March, 1924, be amended by deleting clause 40 thereof, and substituting in lieu thereof the following clause:—
“40. After the Superintendent and the Deputy Superintendent members of the brigade shall be classed as follows: Foreman, senior fireman, motorman, and fireman; and they shall rank according to numbers or rotation of service in their respective station.”

We, the undersigned, hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution of the Hastings Fire Board which was duly passed at a meeting of the said Board held on the 10th day of September, 1924.

G. A. MADDISON,
Chairman of the Hastings Fire Board.

J. B. PICKERING, Secretary.

The foregoing by-law is hereby approved this 7th day of October, 1924.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Thames Borough Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st October, 1924.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-laws made by the Thames Borough Council on the 30th day of June, 1924.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the within-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 14th day of July, 1924.

Dated this 21st day of October, 1924.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.