PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

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
    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 inches and a-half
    inch 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 in at 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 fireplace 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 workshops 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 or by the said
    Council.

18. Any privy hereafter erected shall have
    walls of iron or wood brick or stone but the
    roofs 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 Lake
    Erua Moana and its branch to join Tidal
    Creek and also on Sections No. 312, 132, 133,
    and 134 on the authenticated map of the