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funds from which it is hereinbefore provided
the expenses of this Part of this Act are to
be defrayed.

31. All houses hereafter to be erected or
    rebuilt shall have attached to them sufficient
    water-closets, earth-closets or privies, with
    proper drains and cesspools, or other adequate
    provision for avoidance of nuisance and for
    sanitary purposes; and if at any time it shall
    be made to appear to any Local Board that
    any house within its jurisdiction, whether
    built at any time before or after the coming
    into operation of this Act, has not a sufficient
    water or earth closets or privy drains and
    cesspools or other adequate provision as aforesaid, and the proprietor or occupier, on due
    notice to that effect from such Local Board,
    shall not erect such water or earth closets or
    privy drains and cesspools in the time to be
    named in such notice, the Local Board may
    cause a privy to be erected at the expense of
    the proprietor of such house, with drains and
    cesspools.

32. If it shall appear to the Local Board that
    any house is used or intended to be used as a
    school or a factory or building in which persons above fifteen in number are gathered or
    employed, or intended to be gathered or employed, at one time, such Local Board may,
    by notice in writing to the owner or occupier
    of such house, require him, within a time to
    be specified in such notice, to construct a
    sufficient number of water-closets, earth-closets or privies for the use of such persons,
    and (if they are of different sexes), separate
    for those of each sex; and if the proprietor or
    occupier shall neglect to erect such water-closets, earth-closets or privies within the
    time mentioned in such notice, the Local
    Board may cause water-closets, earth-closets
    or privies to be constructed at the expense of
    the proprietor or occupier of such house or
    premises.

33. If upon the certificate of the Medical
    Officer of Health (if any), or of any two medical
    practitioners, it appear to the Local Board
    of Health that any house or part thereof is in
    such a filthy or unwholesome condition that
    the health of any person is affected or endangered thereby, or that the whitewashing,
    cleansing or purifying of any house or part
    theof would tend to prevent or check infectious or contagious disease, the said Local
    Board shall give notice in writing to the
    owner or occupier of such house or part
    of the premises to whitewash cleanse, or purify the same as the case may require. And if
    the person to whom notice is so given fail to comply
    therewith within such time as shall be
    specified in the said notice, the said Local
    Board may (if they shall think fit) cause such
    house, building or part thereof to be whitewashed, cleansed or purified; and the expenses
    incurred by them in so doing shall be repaid
    by the owner or occupier, and recovered as
    hereinafter mentioned.

34. If at any time it shall appear to any
    Local Board that any accumulation of manure,
    dung, soil, filth, offal, coal ashes or other
    offensive or noxious matter whatsoever ought
    to be removed from any abattoir, slaughterhouse, yard, house, out-buildings, lane, alley
    or other place, they shall give notice to the
    person to whom the same belongs, or to the
    occupier of the premises whereon it exists, to
    remove the same from the premises; and if
    at the expiration of twenty-four hours after
    such notice the same be not complied with,
    the manure, dung, soil, filth, offal, coal ashes
    or matter referred to shall be removed by the
    Local Board at the expense of the party to
    whom such notice shall have been given, and
    such expenses shall be recovered as hereinafter
    mentioned.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
56, of the 25th of September, 1873.]

Member of Local Cattle Board appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, September 22nd, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

FITZHERBERT DERMOTT, ESQ.,

to be a Member of the Local Cattle Board of
the District of Westland, vice Dr. Garland,
resigned.

DANIEL POLLEN.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
54, of the 11th of September, 1873.]

Special Sitting of the Westland Waste Lands

Board.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS on the twenty-eighth day of
August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in
pursuance of the powers vested in the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand by
"The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870,"
certain days were appointed to be the days on
which the Waste Lands Board of the County
of Westland should sit at the principal Land
Office of the said County in the Town of
Hokitika: And whereas by the said recited