SEPT. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2545

46. The pit of every pit-privy shall be covered in with clean
    earth before the faecal matter therein rises to within 12 in.
    of the surface of the ground, and the privy shall be thereafter
    moved.

G.--INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

47. Where the Medical Officer of Health notifies that an
    infectious disease exists in a village or district, no hui,
    gathering, or tangi shall be held until such time as the village
    or district is declared clean of the disease.

48. Where an infectious disease has been notified in a
    village or district, the Council and the committee shall render
    every possible assistance to Native-school teachers, Native
    nurses, sanitary inspectors, medical officers, or health officers
    in the early tracing of cases of sickness in the village or district.
    The Council and the committee shall make it as widely known
    as possible that such an infectious disease exists. Any
    person, after receiving such notice, who does not notify
    cases of sickness existing in a house or camp owned or
    occupied by him shall be deemed guilty of an offence.

49. No person suffering or suspected to be suffering from
    an infectious disease shall travel or be removed to other
    dwellinghouses or camps already occupied, unless to a hospital,
    without the consent of a nurse, sanitary inspector, or medical
    officer.

50. Where so directed by a sanitary inspector, Native
    nurse, or qualified medical practitioner, no person living in
    a house, building, or camp where infectious disease exists
    shall travel about to other occupied houses or districts unless
    he possesses a certificate from a qualified medical practitioner
    that he is free from infection.

51. Any person, not acting under the instructions of a
    qualified medical practitioner or an official of the Department
    of Health, who treats cases of sickness other than in his own
    immediate family, or allows cases of sickness to collect in a
    house or camp owned or occupied by him, shall be deemed
    guilty of an offence.

52. No clothing, blankets, or domestic utensils shall be
    removed for further use from a house in which infectious
    disease exists or has existed until such material has been
    properly disinfected by a Native nurse, sanitary inspector,
    or under the orders of a qualified medical practitioner.

53. Any person infringing any of by-laws 47, 48, 49, and
    50 shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 for each
    offence, and of by-law 51 not exceeding £25.

H.--TANGIS, HUIS, AND GATHERINGS.

54. The committee of the village or district where a tangi,
    hui, or gathering is held shall be responsible for the proper
    regulation of such tangi, hui, or gathering from a sanitary
    standpoint.

55. The committee shall take steps to ensure that proper
    precautions are carried out with regard to cleanliness, ventilation, and overcrowding of meetinghouses, cleanliness of the
    marae and cookinghouses and places used for the storage of
    food and the proper disposal of refuse and rubbish.

56. The committee shall take steps to ensure that sufficient
    privy-accommodation to the satisfaction of the Medical
    Officer of Health is provided for each sex, and that such
    privies are kept in a clean and sanitary condition.

57. The committee shall take steps to prevent the fouling
    of water-supplies.

58. The committee shall take steps to prevent any tangi,
    hui, or gathering being so unduly prolonged as to be a menace
    to public health.

59. The committee shall prevent any acute cases of sickness
    remaining in a meetinghouse, and shall insist on their being
    removed to a detached dwellinghouse, tent, or to their own
    homes.

60. Any person depositing excreta or urine within a Maori
    kainga at other than places appointed shall be guilty of an
    offence, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 10s. for
    each offence.

61. The committee may appoint a sanitary squad to carry
    out the provisions of this section. Where any expense is
    incurred, it shall be a charge upon the funds of the tangi,
    hui, or gathering, or may be raised as a levy or contribution,
    as the committee may deem fit.

62. Where there is no duly constituted health committee
    in a village where the tangi, hui, or gathering is held, the
    relatives of the deceased or the promoters of the hui or
    gathering shall be held responsible for the carrying-out of
    the clauses of this section.

I.--WATER-SUPPLIES.

63. The Council shall make such by-laws regarding water-
    supplies to suit the particular circumstances of their district
    as the Medical Officer of Health approves.

64. Where the water-supply of any dwellinghouse is drawn
    from a rain-water tank it shall be the duty of the owner or
    occupier of every such dwellinghouse to cause such rain-
    water tank to be cleaned out at last once in every year and
    at any more frequent intervals should circumstances require.

J.--HAWKERS.

65. The following by-laws shall apply to Indian, Assyrian,
    and other hawkers selling their goods in the Maori kaingas
    within the district, that is to say,
    (1) Such person shall have a license from the Council
    before he may sell his goods within the kaingas of
    the district.
    (2) The license in the Form B in the Schedule hereto shall
    have force throughout the whole of the district and
    the fee therefor shall be £2.
    (3) The Chairman or Clerk of the Council or a member of
    the Council duly authorized by the Council in that
    behalf, is empowered to issue such licenses.
    (4) All fees paid for licenses shall be forwarded to the office
    of the Council.
    (5) Any person hawking goods without a license within
    any Maori kainga in the district shall be liable to a
    fine not exceeding £5.

A special license may be issued by the Chairman or Clerk
or any member of the Council, or by the chairman of the
village committee of a kainga where any hui or gathering is
held, to any person desirous of hawking and selling goods at
such hui or gathering on payment of 10s., or for any other
kind of sale 5s. Such license shall be in force only while such
hui or gathering lasts, and no longer. Any person hawking
or selling goods at such hui or gathering without a special
license, or without a license as provided in the foregoing
by-laws, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £5.

REGULATING SHELL-FISH.

66. (1) No person shall transport into any place being a
    Maori village, pa, or assemblage of houses, in respect of which
    a Komiti Marae has been appointed, for consumption in such
    place any shell-fish taken from any area declared in respect
    of such place to be a prohibited area.
    (2) If a Medical Officer of Health or Inspector of Health
    is of opinion that any area is contaminated or liable to
    contamination from sewage outfall or nightsoil-deposit he
    may advise the Maori Council to declare such area to be a
    prohibited area for the purpose of this by-law.
    (3) The Maori Council may thereupon by its Chairman
    instruct the Chairman of any Komiti Marae to publish at the
    meetinghouse of such place or at some other suitable place a
    notice that the area is a prohibited area for the purposes of
    this by-law and such area shall thereupon in respect of such
    place be a prohibited area accordingly.
    (4) Proof that any notice has been published in any place
    as aforesaid shall be sufficient proof that all necessary steps
    have been taken under this by-law for constituting the area
    referred to in such notice a prohibited area in respect of such
    place for the purposes of this by-law and shall be prima
    facie evidence that such area continues to be a prohibited
    area as aforesaid.
    (5) Any such declaration may from time to time by like
    procedure be revoked.
    (6) Any person committing a breach of this by-law is
    liable to a fine not exceeding £5.

The powers under this by-law are in addition to and not
in substitution for the powers conferred by any other Act.

K.--DRUNKENNESS.

67. (1) No alcoholic liquor shall at any time be supplied,
    drunk, or brought to any Maori kainga.
    (2) Where a public meeting is held by invitation, the
    person or persons issuing such invitations shall be jointly
    and severally liable, if he or they supply or cause to be
    supplied any alcoholic liquor to the visitors, or any of them,
    or to any person whatsoever attending such a meeting, to
    a fine not exceeding £5.
    (3) Any person found drunk at any kainga or Maori meeting
    shall be liable to a fine of not less than 5s. and not exceeding
    £10.
    (4) Any person shall be guilty of an offence who--
    (1) Being drunk or under the influence of liquor, methyl-
    lated spirit, or mixture containing methylated
    spirit, enters a meetinghouse or a church or some
    other public building within a Maori kainga :
    (2) Takes any alcoholic liquor, methylated spirit, or mixture
    containing methylated spirit into a Maori kainga :
    (3) Drinks or causes anyone else to drink any alcoholic
    liquor, methylated spirit, or mixture containing
    methylated spirit in any meetinghouse, church, or
    public building.

And such person shall be liable to a fine of not less than
5s. and not exceeding £10 for a first offence, and not exceeding
£20 for every subsequent offence.

L.--SMOKING.

68. Every person, whether European or Maori who sells,
    gives, or supplies any cigarette, tobacco, or torori to any
    Maori under the age of fifteen years shall be deemed guilty
    of an offence, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £5.