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PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

REGULATIONS REFERRED TO IN THE ABOVE NOTICE.

REGULATIONS OF THE COUNCIL
OF THE BOROUGH OF GREY-
MOUTH MADE UNDER THE 13TH
SCHEDULE OF "THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1867."


REGULATION No. I.

A Regulation of the Council of the Borough of Greymouth made under Subdivision No. 1. of Schedule 13 of the "Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," for regulating the height from the ground and for appointing the shape, figure, dimensions and material of porticoes and verandahs.

In pursuance of the powers and provisions contained in or conferred by section or provision No. 4 of Part No. 1 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:β€”

  1. No portico or verandah shall be of less height than nine feet from the kerb to the soffite of the fascia, measured in the centre of the verandah nor higher than ten feet unless in this last case the permission in writing of the Town Surveyor or other the proper officer appointed by the Council in that behalf has been first obtained.

  2. No portico or verandah shall be of less width than the foot path over which the same is erected.

  3. Every portico shall have a fall towards the outer edge of the footway upon or over which the same shall be erected sufficient to carry off immediately any water falling thereon.

  4. The pillars and supports of every portico shall be of wood or iron and such pillars or supports shall not be placed more than ten feet apart from one another.

  5. Every portico and verandah shall be furnished with O.G. spouting at the sides and front thereof of proper size to carry off the water and such water shall be conducted by a metal pipe at least one and a-half inch in diameter down one of the verandah posts into the water channel.

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. II.

Regulation of the Council of the Borough of Greymouth made under Subdivision No. 3 of Part No. 1 of the 13th Schedule of the "Municipal Corporations Act 1867" for regulating the material and the size level and fall of any drain or trunk to be laid or constructed under any footway.

In pursuance of the powers and provisions contained in or conferred by section or provision No. 14 of Part No. 1 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:β€”

  1. All drains under footways shall be constructed with iron pipes not exceeding three inches in diameter and shall be laid with a fall of three inches in the whole width of the footway, the level of the discharge mouth being the level of the water channel.

  2. The kerbing or kerb plate shall be neatly cut with a circular hole of the same size as the outside diameter of the pipe to receive the end of the pipe and relaid to line and level.

  3. The footway opened up for the reception of the pipe shall be immediately made good with the same material of which it is constructed.

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.



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  • G. W. Moss, Mayor
  • J. C. Moore, Councillor
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