SEPT. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2707

By-laws under the Rotorua Borough Act, 1922.

WHEREAS by section 8 of the Rotorua Borough Act, 1922, the control of water-supply to the Borough of Rotorua is vested in the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, which for the purposes of such section is a body corporate :

And whereas in respect of such works the said Department has all the powers for the time being conferred by law on borough councils, except the power to borrow money or to make and levy any special rate :

Now, therefore, the said Department, in pursuance of such powers and all other powers thereunto enabling it, doth hereby make the by-laws hereinafter set forth, and doth hereby revoke Part XIV of the Rotorua Town By-laws, 1909, as published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 11th October, 1923, By-laws 4 (a), 4 (b), 4 (c), 4 (d), 4 (e), 4 (f), 4 (g), 4 (h), and Amendment of By-laws Nos. 4 and 14 (a) as published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 10th July, 1924, also By-laws 4, 5, and 16 as published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 3rd October, 1929, and also Amendment to By-law 4 (2) as published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 6th March, 1930, and doth substitute therefor the by-laws following ; and doth hereby declare that such by-laws shall take effect and come into force on the 1st day of October, 1935.

BY-LAWS.

PART XIV.—WATER-SUPPLY.

“Supply pipe” means any pipe leading from the street water-main to the boundary of a consumer’s property.

“Service pipe” means any pipe connected either to the supply pipe, or, in accordance with a special arrangement under section 8 of these by-laws, with another service pipe, conveying water to any house or other building, on the consumer’s property.

“Lock-up shop” means any shop which has no residential apartments, or apartments used as such, in connection therewith.

1. Water-supply must be obtained in certain cases: (a) Where the Department’s local controlling officer shall certify in writing under his hand that any dwellinghouse is without a proper supply of water, he may give notice in writing under his hand to the owner for the time being of the dwellinghouse requiring him within a time stated in the notice to obtain a supply from the waterworks under the control of the Department, and to do all works necessary for that purpose.

(b) Any such notice may be renewed from time to time.

(c) Such owner shall, within the time limited in the notice or renewed notice, comply with the requirements, and shall provide and affix in connection with the service all appliances and fittings required by these by-laws, and shall generally in relation to such service comply with the provisions of these by-laws.

2. Ordinary and extraordinary supplies: The purposes for which water shall be supplied by the Department are as follows:—

(a) Ordinary supply—Class I, domestic or household, not otherwise; Class II, commercial. Both as hereinafter defined.

(b) Extraordinary supply—For commercial and industrial purposes as hereinafter defined.

3. Application for supply: All applications for any water-supply shall be made in the form prescribed by the Department’s local controlling officer, and if for an ordinary supply shall be accompanied with a half-year’s fee payable in advance, and connection fees as hereinafter provided. All applications shall state the name of the licensed plumber engaged to make the connection.

(a) If the owner or occupier of any premises connected with the water-supply shall subdivide and [or] let or sublet the same or any part or parts thereof to any person or persons other than members of his own family he shall forthwith notify to the Department’s local controlling officer the name of the person or persons to whom such parts have been let or sublet.

4. Charges: The charges for water-supply shall be as follows:—

Ordinary Supply.—Class I, Domestic.

(a) Domestic or household supply, not otherwise: For each service to each household or each family, or for separate premises on the same land occupied as residences .. 1 13 0

Provided that where any premises are subdivided and [or] let or sublet as semi-detached dwellings, flats, apartment houses, or otherwise, and occupied by more than one separate family, then the water service to each such family shall for the purposes of these by-laws be deemed a separate domestic or household supply, and the above fee shall be payable accordingly by each such occupier even though the whole supply may be taken from the same supply pipe or the same service pipe.

(b) For flushing-supply to each patent water-closet, not metered .. 1 2 0

(c) For flushing-supply to each urinal or other sanitary convenience, not metered .. 1 2 0

(d) For each patent water-closet, urinal, or other sanitary convenience connected with a septic tank .. 0 11 0

(e) The following exceptions are made in respect of charges due under preceding subclauses (b) and (c):—

“(1) Provided that in cases of water-supply given for flushing-supply service to any premises included in the special drainage rating area for the Rotorua Borough Sewerage Loan, 1929, of £33,360, no fee shall be charged in any year for such supply, so long as a special interest rate for such loan is levied on such premises by the Rotorua Borough Council.

“(2) Provided that in the case of water-supply given for flushing-supply service for the public conveniences in the Native Village at Whakarewarewa, no fee shall be charged.”

Ordinary Supply.—Class II, Commercial.

(1) Fish-shop with dining-room .. 3 6 0

(2) Dining-rooms or restaurants where hot meals are served .. 3 6 0

(3) Manufacturing confectioners .. 3 6 0

(4) Premises in which photographs are developed .. 3 6 0

(5) Garages with washboard .. 3 6 0

(6) Tea-rooms or restaurants where morning and afternoon teas and light refreshments only are served .. 2 4 0

(7) Shops in which ice-cream or assorted drinks are made and sold .. 2 4 0

(8) Bakehouses .. 2 4 0

(9) Dental rooms .. 1 13 0

(10) Toilet rooms, barber’s shops, or hairdressing saloons .. 1 13 0

(11) Dry-massage rooms .. 1 13 0

(12) Kitchen or market gardens .. 1 13 0

(13) Horse or cattle troughs, for each trough .. 1 13 0

(14) For each additional trough off same service pipe .. 0 16 6

(15) Factories with electric power .. 1 13 0

(16) Contractor’s or carrier’s premises .. 1 13 0

(17) Fish-shop without dining-room .. 1 2 0

(18) Butchers’ shops with electric refrigerator or non-water-cooling devices .. 1 2 0

(19) Chemists’ shops .. 1 2 0

(20) Dry-cleaners’ shops .. 1 2 0

(21) Garages without washboard, or motor mechanics’ premises .. 0 11 0

(22) Lock-up shops or offices, other than those previously specified .. 0 11 0

This charge shall be payable irrespective of whether or not water is laid into any particular premises or shop.

(23) Shops in which milk in small quantities is retailed .. 0 11 0

(24) Premises where a horse is kept for delivery of goods, for each horse .. 0 11 0

(25) Halls or similar buildings, not metered, for each hall or building .. 0 11 0

(26) Flushing-supply to each patent water-closet, urinal, or other sanitary convenience, not metered .. 1 2 0

For each patent water-closet, urinal, or other sanitary convenience connected with a septic tank .. 0 11 0

(27) For concrete buildings under construction, a builder’s fee shall be payable as follows:— Per Month.
During period of concrete construction .. 0 11 0
Thereafter and only until such time as building is ready for occupation .. 0 2 9

(28) In any case not specifically mentioned in the foregoing schedules of ordinary supply, Classes I and II, and in cases of water-supply given outside the borough boundaries, the Department’s local controlling officer shall assess the charge to be paid by the consumer and shall determine whether the service shall be classed as ordinary or extraordinary supply.

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