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to apply to the whole or separately to
any part or parts of the district de-
scribed by boundaries in such bye-law,
and may provide as to the subject-matter
thereof, either absolutely or with relation
to the consent of the Council or of the
proper officer of the Board, to be given
or withheld in any case to be in question
under such regulation.

  1. Every person who shall make or
    place any stack of hay, corn, straw, or
    other produce, or place as or for the
    covering of any such stack any inflammable material, or deposit any combustible
    material, or light any fire contrary in
    any such case to any regulation under
    this subdivision, and every occupier of
    any premises whereon any stack, or any
    such covering of a stack shall be, or any
    combustible materials have been deposited, if the same, though lawfully
    made, placed, or deposited before the
    coming into force of any such regulation
    shall be there contrary to the tenor of
    such regulation, who shall not within
    seven days after notice from the Board
    so to do remove such stack, covering, or
    materials, or who shall suffer to remain
    any such stack, covering, or materials
    unlawfully made, placed, or deposited
    before the coming into force of such
    regulation, shall forfeit, on conviction of
    such offence, a sum not exceeding five
    pounds, and in every such case a further
    sum not exceeding forty shillings for
    every day after any such conviction during
    which such stack, covering, or materials
    shall so continue.

  2. Every person who wilfully sets fire
    to any inflammable matter whatsoever in
    the open air, without having given notice
    in writing to the occupiers of the land
    adjoining to the land upon which such
    matter shall be, and also to the Chairman
    of the Board, of his intention so to do, or
    within twenty-four hours after giving the
    giver of such notices, or between the
    hours of four in the afternoon of any day
    and eight in the morning of the following
    day, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding
    five pounds.

  3. Every person who shall light any
    bonfire, tar-barrel, or firework upon or
    within sixty yards of any public or private
    street, or any public place, shall forfeit a
    sum not exceeding five pounds.

  4. It shall not be lawful for any person
    to make or place, or to keep or continue
    any fence of brushwood, bushes, or other
    like material within the borough, and
    every person who shall make or place
    any such fence, and every owner or
    occupier of any premises who for seven
    days after notice from the Board to
    remove any such fence thereto appertaining, if lawfully made or placed before the
    coming into operation of this sub-division,
    shall suffer any such fence or any part
    thereof to remain, or who shall suffer to
    remain any such fence unlawfully made
    before such coming into operation, shall
    forfeit, on conviction, for such offence
    a sum not exceeding five pounds, and in
    every such case a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after
    any such conviction during which such
    fence shall continue.

Part VIII.

Clauses 1 to 7 inclusive.

  1. It shall be lawful for the Board
    from time to time to make regulations for
    appointing by limits, to be set forth
    therein, portions of the District in which
    it shall not be lawful to keep any swine,
    and if any person shall keep any swine
    within any such prescribed limits he shall
    forfeit for every day during which he shall
    so offend a sum not exceeding five
    pounds.

  2. Every person who shall empty any
    privy, or load, carry, remove, or deposit
    any night-soil or offal, or other offensive
    refuse or matter, save between such hours
    of the night, or shall deposit the same
    save at such places as respectively shall
    have been appointed by some regulation
    of the Board in that behalf, or who shall
    use for any such purpose any cart or
    carriage not having a covering proper for
    preventing the escape of the contents of
    such cart, or of the stench thereof, shall
    forfeit for every such offence a sum not
    exceeding five pounds; and it shall be
    lawful for the Board from time to time to
    make such regulations for appointing
    such hours and places aforesaid.

  3. It shall be lawful for the Board of
    the District, if the Board shall not as yet
    have provided within such district, and duly
    notified the same as ready for public use,
    to license upon payment of such sum not
    exceeding two pounds as shall be appointed by regulation in that behalf, such
    slaughter-houses as they from time to
    time may think proper for slaughtering
    cattle within the borough, and every such
    licence shall be in force for a year from
    the time of granting the same and no
    longer.

  4. Every person who, without having
    such a licence as aforesaid in force, uses
    as a slaughter-house any place within
    such borough as in the last preceding
    section mentioned other than a slaughter-
    house, which was in use at the time of
    the issue of the Proclamation by which
    such district was constituted under the
    provisions of "The Local Boards Act,
    1873," shall for each such offence forfeit,
    on conviction, a sum not exceeding five
    pounds, and a like penalty for every day
    after such conviction upon which he shall
    so offend.

  5. Every place which at the time
    of the issue of such Proclamation as
    aforesaid was in use as a slaughter-
    house, and has so continued ever
    since, shall, within one month after...



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Wellington Provincial Gazette 1874, No 29





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