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Notices Served.—One thousand four hundred and thirtyfour
preliminary notices or intimations were served in respect
of one thousand four hundred and fifty-eight houses.
It was found necessary to serve two hundred and twelve
Statutory Notices upon the owners or occupiers of two
hundred and four houses. The necessary work was executed
in all but ninety-three cases. In fifty of these the work was
actually in hand at the close of the year.
In only one instance was it necessary for legal proceedings
to be instituted.
In this case the owners of five houses failed to comply
with Notices requiring the abatement of nuisances.
At the first hearing the magistrates accepted an undertaking
given by the owners that they would complete the
remedial works within fourteen days. At the adjourned
hearing the summonses were withdrawn as the Notices had
been satisfactorily complied with.
Six hundred and thirty-four enquiries received from the
Town Clerk's Department were replied to regarding seven
hundred and eighty-four properties where negotiations for sale
were in progress.
House Drainage.—The drainage systems and sanitary
arrangements of fifty-six houses were entirely reconstructed.
Extensive alterations or repairs were carried out at eightyone
houses. At fifteen houses the drainage systems were made
water-tight by the patent internal process.
Rent (Restrictions) Acts, 1920-1933.—Five applications
for inspections under the provisions of these Acts were
received.
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