AUCTION SALE OF WASTE LANDS OF THE CROWN

under "The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870."

WE, the undersigned, Commissioners of
the Waste Lands Board of the
County of Westland, in accordance with the
provisions of section thirty-four of "The
Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870," do hereby
notify, that Tuesday, 25th November
next, at noon, in the Land Office, Hokitika,
is fixed as the time and place when an auction
sale of town and suburban lands shall take
place.

G. G. FITZGERALD,
Chief Commissioner.

H. L. ROBINSON,
E. PATTEN,
Commissioners.

Office of the Central Board of Health,
Hokitika, October 6, 1873.

THE following extracts from "The
Public Health Act, 1872," are published
for general information, and the Local
Boards of Health in the County are requested
to pay particular attention to them.

By order,

A. E. TENNANT,
Secretary to the Board.

28. The Local Boards of Health within
    their respective jurisdictions shall cause all
    sewers and drains to be covered and kept so
    as not to be a nuisance or injurious to health,
    and to be properly cleared, cleansed and
    emptied; and for the purpose of clearing,
    cleansing and emptying the same, may con-
    struct and erect such works as may be
    necessary, and may cause all or any of such
    sewers to communicate with and be emptied
    into such places as they may deem fit or
    necessary; and no person shall, without the
    consent of the Local Board, cause any pri-
    vate drain or sewer to be emptied or flow
    into any public drain or sewer under the
    control of such Local Board, nor do any act,
    matter or thing which shall, in the opinion of
    such Local Board, tend to the injury or stop-
    page of any such drain or sewer.

29. Each Local Board shall provide that
    all drains wheresoever, and the water-closets,
    private cesspools and ashpits within their
    jurisdiction, be constructed and kept so as not
    to be a nuisance or injurious to health, and
    may, upon the written application of any
    person showing that any drain, water-closet,
    privy, cesspool, ashpit or other matter is a
    nuisance or injurious to health, and after
    twenty-four hours' notice in writing, or in
    case of emergency without notice, to the
    occupier of the premises of which complaint
    shall be made, enter into and examine such
    premises, and cause the ground to be opened
    or do any other necessary act to examine any
    drain, water-closet, privy, cesspool, ashpit or
    other place; and if such drain, water-closet,
    privy, cesspool, ashpit or other place shall be
    found to be in proper order and condition, the
    Local Board shall cause the ground to be
    closed, and any damage done to be made good
    as far as can be, at the expense of such Local
    Board; but if the drains, cesspools, water-
    closet, privy, ashpit or other place shall be
    found to be in a bad condition, or to require
    alteration or amendment, the ground shall be
    closed up and notice given by such Local
    Board to the proprietor or occupier, requiring
    him to make such alteration or amendment
    within a time to be named in such notice;
    and if such owner or occupier shall fail to
    comply with such notice, it shall be competent
    for the Local Board to cause such
    alteration or amendment to be executed at
    the expense of the proprietor of such premises.

30. The Local Board of Health shall cause
    to be drained, cleansed, covered or filled up
    all ponds, pools, open ditches, sewers, drains
    and places containing or used for the collection
    of any drainage, filth, water, matter or thing
    of an offensive nature, or likely to be preju-
    dicial to health.

And they shall cause written notice to be
given to the person causing any such nui-
sance, or to the owner or occupier of any
premises whereon the same exists, requiring him,
within a time to be specified in such notice,
to drain, cleanse, cover or fill up any such
pond, pool, ditch, sewer, drain or place, or to
construct a proper sewer or drain for the dis-
charge thereof, as the case may require.

If the person to whom such notice is given
fail to comply therewith, the said Local
Board shall execute the works mentioned or
referred to therein at the expense of the party
to whom such notice was given.

The said Local Board may however, if they
see fit, order that the whole or a portion of
the expenses incurred in respect of any such
last-mentioned work be defrayed out of the