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Marine store shops are now within the scope of Offensive Trades, and we
have had many commence this business without the written consent of the
Council, but they move, and remove, and instead of taking their goods home,
they have resorted to sorting their rags, etc., on some of the vacant lands. I
am now preparing a register as I find it will be necessary to take proceedings
against some of them.
The Pig Keepers premises are periodically inspected and most of their
styes are of a temporary nature.
During the year one man commenced to keep pigs within the prescribed
distance of the bye-laws; he was at once notified of the contravention and
discontinued keeping them.
Since the Council gave up the collection of fish offal, the work continues
to be well carried out by the Belvedere Fish Guano Co., and no cause for
complaint has been observed during the year.
HOUSE T© HOUSE INSPECTION.
During the year the Inspector who was appointed to carry out the house to
house inspections joined the "Queen's Westminsters," the Council appointed a
temporary inspector to continue the work, there has been a great deal done, but
thorough inspection takes up some considerable time, as the work involves the
making out of preliminary and statutory notices and the service of same, under
the various Acts and Regulations, watching the work of remedying defects from
day to day, and entering in the work records the results of the inspection and
the work carried out. For the first time since the Act came into force the
the Council proceeded at the recommendation of their officers to carry out work
under Section 15 of the "Housing and Town Planning Act," and three houses
were selected as an experiment in a well known street.
The men employed were paid by the Council day work as it was impossible
to get a contract for such repairs; as soon as the defective woodwork and
plastered walls were touched they simply fell to pieces. The workmen were
much handicapped as the tenants were in the house all the time. However
when the work is done we hope the desired result will be attained, viz.; A
house made reasonably fit for human habitation, but the work and worry
it has been will not I am afraid give your officers much energy to proceed
again under this Section of the Act.
The house to house inspection has again found that continual nuisance
from converting little sheds in the back yards into stables without paving or
drainage; notices have been served to abate the nuisance. One man we had