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for the purpose of trade or manufacture must be six inches at least from any party wall and must not be upon or within a distance of eighteen inches of any timber or wood work and the floor on or above which such oven furnace or close forge shall be built or fixed must be formed and paved under same and for a distance of two feet all round same with stone brick tile or slate at the least two inches thick or with iron at least half an inch thick or with other proper incombustible non-conducting materials.

11. Every chimney and chimney stack must be built wholly of brick or stone with mortar or cement and every such chimney and chimney stack must be built from the foundation and from the corbels if corbelled out according to Section 13 of these Regulations to the top thereof without any corbelling over whereby any upper part of the brick work of such chimney or chimney stack shall overhang any lower part of the brick work on the front thereof.

12. The breast of any angle chimney built in the internal angle of any building above the ceiling of any lower story shall not exceed eight feet in width and the jambs breast and flue must be properly supported on iron girders with brick arches or on strong stone landings at least four inches thick tailed at least nine inches into each of the two walls if of brick stone or cement forming such angle.

13. The jambs breast and flue of any single or double chimney may be built upon stone or iron corbels above the ceiling of any lower story but the projection both of such jambs and breast must not in any case exceed fourteen inches before the face of the wall or stack to which the same shall join and the brick work must be arched or corbelled over the whole width of the chimney opening up to the line of the face of the jambs in order to provide a solid bed for the back hearth.

14. The jambs of every chimney must not be less than eight and a-half inches wide on each side of such opening. The breast of every chimney and the front back width or partition of every flue must be at least four inches in thickness of bricks and the joints of the work must be filled in with mortar or cement and all the inside thereof and also all the outside or face thereof next the interior of any building must be rendered or pargetted.

15. And as to the back of every single chimney opening in any building every such back must be at least eight and a-half inches thick in any wall less than eighteen inches thick and at the least thirteen inches thick in any wall eighteen inches or more than eighteen inches thick. If two chimneys be built back to back then the thickness between the same must be at the least of the thickness described for the back of a single chimney opening.

16. No timber must be placed over any opening for supporting the breast of any chimney but there must be an arch of stone or brick over the opening of every such chimney to support the breast thereof and unless the arch be semi-circular an iron bar or bars must be built into the jambs at the least nine inches on each side to tie in the abutments and no timber or wood work must be placed or laid under any chimney opening or in any wall under any chimney opening within eighteen inches at least of the surface of the hearth to the fire place of such chimney opening and no timber or wood work must be nearer than one inch to the opening of any chimney and no trimmer must be placed nearer than eighteen inches to the front face of any chimney neither shall it be lawful to build in or insert the end of any joists rafters beams or other timber whatever in any part of any chimney or flue.

17. Nothing in the foregoing regulations shall prevent any contractors’ or builders’ temporary offices sheds and workshop from being erected of wood or iron on any building site during such building operations Provided that special application to and permission be granted by the Mayor of or by the said Council.

18. Any privy hereafter erected shall have walls of iron or wood brick or stone but the roof must be covered with iron or other incombustible material and all privies must be provided with a door.

19. The clauses 3 4 5 and 18 of this Regulation shall apply only to buildings situate in that part of the said Borough to the North of the Tidal Creek and East of the Lake Erua Moana and its branch to join Tidal Creek and also on sections No: 312 132 133 and 184 on the authenticated Map of the