546

ELECTION OF WARDENS WITHIN HUNDREDS.

THE Settlers desirous of obtaining depasturing licenses within Hundreds, and of electing Wardens, are requested to make and comply with the Clauses 56 and 62 of the Land Regulations, which provide that application for depasturing license must be made on or before the 1st January in each year, and that a return of the number of acres occupied by the applicant must be made to the Waste Land Board.

If a sufficient number of persons in each Hundred do not take out licenses before the 1st of January, there can be no election of Wardens.

W. H. CUTFIELD,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
7th November, 1863.

POSTAL.

General Post Office,
Auckland, Nov. 14, 1863.

NOTICE is hereby given, that on and after the 1st January, 1864, all Post Offices in the Colony will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., for public business.

T. B. GILLIES,
Postmaster-General.

The following Regulations, prepared in accordance with the 10th Clause of the “Common Lodging Houses Ordinance, 1862,” which have been approved by His Honor the Superintendent, are published for general information—

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.
9th December, 1863.

REGULATIONS FOR THE WELL ORDERING OF COMMON LODGING HOUSES.

1. No keeper of a Common Lodging House, within the City of Dunedin, shall receive any Lodgers into his Common Lodging House until the same has been inspected by the officer appointed by the Local Authority for inspecting Common Lodging Houses, and has been approved by the Local Authority, and placed upon the Register.

2. No keeper of a Common Lodging House, within the said City, shall admit or suffer to remain in such House, or any room thereof, a greater number of Lodgers than shall be fixed by the Local Authority.

3. Each room occupied as a sleeping-room shall be furnished with bedsteads, and sufficient bedding for the number of Lodgers authorised to be received in such room.

4. Persons of different sexes shall not occupy the same sleeping room, except married couples, or parents with their children under 10 years of age.

5. More than one married couple shall not occupy the same sleeping room, unless the beds are separated by a partition to secure the privacy of each married couple; such partition to be of wood or other solid material, and of such height as shall be fixed in each case by the officer appointed by the Local Authority for inspecting Common Lodging Houses.

6. The Keeper of such Lodging House shall cause all the rooms, passages, stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls, ceilings, privies, cesspools, and drains thereof to be thoroughly cleansed as often as shall be required by the Officer appointed by the Local Authority, and shall cause the walls and ceilings of every room, and of the staircases and passages of such house to be well and efficiently lime-washed twice at least in every year, during the months of October and April, and shall cause the floors of all the rooms, passages, and stairs of such house to be kept at all times clean, and washed and swept as often as necessary, and the blankets, rugs or covers, and sheets used in such house shall be kept clean and in a wholesome condition.

7. The Keeper of such Lodging House shall cause every room, and the passage in such House, to be ventilated to the satisfaction of the Officer appointed by the Local Authority for inspecting Common Lodging-Houses.

8. The Keeper of such Lodging House shall, at all times, keep conspicuously exposed, in each bedroom of such house, the Ticket, furnished by the Local Authority, setting forth the number of Lodgers to be received in the room.

9. The Keeper of such Lodging House shall provide such accommodation for washing, and such a supply of water for the use of the lodgers, as shall be satisfactory to the officer appointed by the Local Authority for inspecting Common Lodging Houses.

10. A Water Closet shall be provided for every such Lodging House, having a yard or other facilities for the erection thereof: And where such facilities do not exist, the water-closet must be provided in some place conveniently contiguous, to the satisfaction of the officer appointed by the Local Authority for inspecting Common Lodging Houses.

11. The room from which any person ill of fever or any infectious or contagious disease, has been removed, or in which any person has died, shall be thoroughly cleansed and fumigated, and the bedding washed, to the satisfaction of the officer appointed by the Local Authority for inspecting Common Lodging Houses, prior to lodgers being again received therein.