Municipal Regulations




PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

"Municipal Corporations Act 1867" for
prescribing the distance from any adjoining
land or from any building within which it
shall not be lawful to make or keep any stack
of hay corn straw or other produce if not
placed under roof or cover and for prohibiting or restraining the use for such covering
of such inflammable materials and also
for prescribing the distance from any building
which it shall not be lawful to deposit combustible materials or save in some properly
constructed fireplace to light a fire :—

In pursuance of the powers contained in
section or provision No. 3 of Part 7
of the 13th Schedule of the "Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," the Council of the
Borough of Greymouth make the following
Regulation that is to say:—

  1. It shall not be lawful to keep any stack
    of hay corn or straw or other agricultural
    produce belonging to the class of cereals
    stored in the open air and at a less distance
    than sixty feet from any building and street
    line and from the land of the adjoining
    owner.

  2. It shall not be lawful to keep any stack
    of hay or straw stored in any building within
    the Borough of Greymouth attached to or at
    a less distance than thirty feet from any other
    building unless the roof of such firstmentioned
    building is covered with iron or slates and
    the walls are covered with iron stone or
    brick but nothing herein contained shall
    extend to pressed hay or chaff which may be
    kept in any building.

  3. It shall not be lawful to deposit any
    timber shaving in any wooden building at a
    less distance than thirty feet from any adjoining land street public place or other building.

  4. It shall not be lawful to light or make
    any fire in any building within the Borough
    of Greymouth situate at a less distance than
    fifty feet from any other building save in a
    properly constructed fireplace.

  5. Any building while used as a stable
    only may be used for the storage of hay corn
    straw or other agricultural produce whether
    complying with the foregoing Regulations or
    not provided if built of wood or iron its
    storing capacity shall not exceed 3000 cubic
    feet.

Passed by the said Council this fifth day
of March, A.D., one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.

(L.S.) G. W. MOSS, Mayor.
J. C. MOORE, Councillor.
JOHN A. WHALL, Town Clerk.

REGULATION No. VIII.

Regulation made under Subdivision No. 1,
of part No. 8 of the 13th Schedule of the
"Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,"
relating to the keeping of swine.

In pursuance of section or provision No. 1
of Part 8 of the 13th Schedule of the
"Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," the
Council of the Borough of Greymouth make
the following Regulation that is to say:—

It shall not be lawful to keep any swine
within the following limits that is to say in
that part of the Borough bounded on the
North by the River Grey on the East by the
East Town Boundary on the South by the
North Town Belt produced to the Western
Boundary of the Native Reserve No. 32 thence
along the East bank of the Erua Moana
Lagoon to the River Grey aforesaid and which
said part is colored Blue on a plan of the
Borough deposited in the Office of the Town
Clerk and sealed with the seal of the
Borough.

Passed by the said Council this fifth day
of March, A.D., one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.

(L.S.) G. W. MOSS, Mayor.
J. C. MOORE, Councillor.
JOHN A. WHALL, Town Clerk.

REGULATION No. IX.

Regulation of the Council of the Borough
of Greymouth made under Subdivision
No. 1, of Part No. 8, of the 13th
Schedule of the "Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," for appointing times
and places for removing night soil offal
or other offensive matter.

In pursuance of section or provision No. 2
of Part 8 of the 13th Schedule of the
"Municipal Corporations Act 1867" the



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  • G. W. Moss, Mayor
  • J. C. Moore, Councillor
  • John A. Whall, Town Clerk

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Swine Keeping, Zoning Regulations, Greymouth Borough
  • G. W. Moss, Mayor
  • J. C. Moore, Councillor
  • John A. Whall, Town Clerk

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