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Sheep Inspector’s Report.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th Feb., 1874.

NOTICE has been received at this Office from the Inspector of Sheep for the Wanganui District, that he has granted a Clean Certificate for a flock of Sheep, numbering 156 (mixed), in possession of J. DICKIE, Wairoa.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Foxton Local Board.

BYE-LAWS.

I. The Board may make such provision as it shall think fit for the periodical removal from every dwelling house or other tenement as aforesaid within the district, at the expense of the owner or occupier thereof, of any night soil, dung, ashes, slops, filth, refuse, or rubbish of any kind.

II. Any person guilty of any of the following offences, omissions, or neglects within the district shall, on being convicted of any such offence, neglect, or omission, be liable to pay any penalty not exceeding (£5) five pounds :-

1. Throwing or sweeping any glass, filth, dirt, rubbish, orange peel, or other matter of a similar nature upon or into any street, channel, footway, court, alley, or public place whatsoever.

2. Leading or riding any horse or other animal, or drawing, wheeling, or driving any cart, carriage, sledge, truck, barrow, or other thing upon or along any footpath, unless permitted by the Board to do so.

3. Burning any shavings, straw, or other material upon any footpath, channel, surface drain, or carriage road without such permission as aforesaid.

4. Drawing or trailing any timber or other material upon any footpath or carriage road.

5. Allowing night soil or other offensive matter to be spilt or otherwise cast on or upon any road, street, footway, public place, or thoroughfare.

6. Leaving any inflammable materials or matter in any public street or place, or on any open space near any building without such permission as aforesaid.

7. Opening any drain or sewer, or removing the surface of any footway or carriage road without authority to do so.

8. Neglecting to clean any private yard, way, passage, avenue, watercloset, privy, or drain, or chimney, when ordered to do so, by which neglect a nuisance by offensive smell or otherwise is caused.

9. Furiously or negligently riding or driving through any public street, place, or thoroughfare.

10. Making any cellar, door, or other opening from the footway of any street or public thoroughfare without the consent or not in accordance with the directions of the Commissioners.

11. Any person placing any obstruction upon any street line whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered.

12. Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, and when meeting any other vehicle or animal not keeping on the left or near side of the street, or when passing any other vehicle or animal going in the same direction not going or passing, or not allowing any person desirous so to do to pass, when practicable on the right or off side of such other vehicle or animal.

13. Any driver of any horse or vehicle injuring any person or property whatsoever by negligence, or by driving on the wrong side of the road, or by being away from his horse or cattle, so as to be unable to have the full control over them.

14. Any person turning loose any horse or cattle upon any public street, or allowing any animal or animals to wander on any public street or thoroughfare within the District.

15. Any person leaving upon any public street or thoroughfare any plough, barrow, cart, or other vehicle without any horse harnessed thereto, unless in consequence of some accident having occurred.

16. Any person slaughtering or skinning any beast upon any public street or thoroughfare, or permitting any slaughtered beast or skin to remain there, or leaving any dead beast on such street or thoroughfare.

17. Any person having any iron, timber, or boards laid across any vehicle going along any street or thoroughfare so that either end should project more than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle.

18. Any person destroying, damaging, polluting, or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice, pipe, pump, watercourse, or fountain.

19. Any person suffering or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter to remain in any cellar or place within any building or premises in the district, or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter to run or flow from any such building or premises upon or over, or be on any carriage road or footway or other place, whether public or private, within the district, or shall allow the contents of any watercloset, privy, or cesspool, to overflow, or to soak therefrom, so as to be offensive.

Regulation No. 1.

BUILDING REGULATIONS.

1. Any person wishing to erect a verandah over any public footpath must, previous to commencing such erection, obtain from the Secretary of the Board a written permission to do so.

2. Any verandah hereafter erected contrary to the regulations and provisions herein contained shall be deemed a public nuisance, and as such shall be removed at the expense of the party causing such erection.

Regulation No. 2.

STREETS, LANES, RIGHT OF WAYS, AND FOOTPATHS.

1. No streets that may be laid off or