PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

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erected added to altered renewed or repaired in accordance with the following regulations:—

2. Before beginning to erect any new building or to alter add to or renew any building already erected or which may hereafter be erected or to execute any other work placed under the control and supervision of the Council of the Borough of Greymouth in or by these regulations the builder owner or occupier shall deliver at the office of the Town Surveyor of the said Borough three clear days’ notice in writing signed by him stating such intention and describing the site upon which it is proposed to erect such new building and describing the building so to be altered built added to or removed.

3. It shall not be lawful to cover the exterior of the walls except the front walls thereof facing a public street of any building to be hereafter erected or to alter repair or renew the wall of any building now erected or being with any boarding of wood or other combustible material provided that the provisions of this clause shall not extend to buildings of one story and no higher distant from any other building at least twelve feet nor shall this clause extend to privies.

4. The external parts of any roof flat or gutter of any building hereafter to be built and every turret dormer lantern light or other building on the roof or flat of such building must be covered with slates tiles or metal iron glass artificial stone or cement except the door frames and doors and window frames and sashes of such turrets dormers lanterns lights or other erections which may be made of such wood as shall be necessary.

5. If the external parts of any roof flat or gutter of any building already built or the external parts of any turret dormer lantern light or other erection on the roof or flat of such building be rebuilt stripped ripped or uncovered then every such part except the door frames and doors window frames and sashes of such turrets dormers lanterns lights or other erections must be covered with slates tiles or metal iron glass artificial stone or cement and such exempted parts may be made of or covered with such wood as shall be necessary but this provision shall not extend to any trifling repairs which may require to be done to any shingle roof now in existence and for which repairs the permission of the Council has been first obtained.

6. It shall not be lawful hereafter to construct any chimney or fireplace within the limits of the Borough of Greymouth or to alter renew or repair any chimney or fireplace now erected or hereafter to be erected within the limits of the said Borough of or with other materials than brick or stone and every such chimney shall be carried up at least two feet above the highest part of the ridge of the roof of the building to which such chimney belongs provided that nothing herein contained shall apply to stove pipes nor to cowls nor chimney tops of iron attached to a brick or stone chimney carried up to height above mentioned.

7. Every detached stove set or fixed in any building within the said Borough shall be fixed subject to the requirements of furnaces &c. contained in Section No. 10 of these regulations with the stove pipe leading into a brick or stone flue.

8. Front hearths of all chimneys and fireplaces shall be composed of bricks tiles slates stone marble cement or other proper and sufficient incombustible substance at the least nine inches longer than the opening of every chimney when finished and at least fifteen inches in the front of the arch over the same and shall be laid before the opening of every chimney and in every floor except the lowest floor such hearths must be laid upon brick trimmer arches or upon a solid bed of cement concrete laid uniform in thickness and without a join to form a bed for the hearth and front hearth or hobs provided nevertheless that the boarding under the front hearth to carry the concrete bed be not nearer to the finished surface of the hearth than six inches at the least should the joists not be deep enough to allow of such depth of six inches being obtained a brick trimmer arch must in all cases be used. In the lowest floor the slab or slabs may be laid upon a brick or stone tender or bedded on the solid ground.

9. The back hearths of every brick chimney must be laid and bedded wholly on brick or stone or other incombustible materials which must be solid for a depth of nine inches at least below the surface of the hearth.

10. Every oven furnace close fire or forge for the purpose of trade or manufacture must