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MOVEABLE DWELLINGS.
Forty-one -licences to station and. use moveable
dwellings (caravans) were granted during the year.
Twenty-four of the caravans are standing on the
Riverhill Estate which has been leased to a local
Sports Club. The remainder are stationed on odd
sites throughout the Borough.
There is one site on which some unlicensed
caravans are parked which is receiving consideration.
The byelaws with respect to tents, vans, sheds
and similar structures made in 1935 were repealed
as it was felt they no longer served any useful
purpose.
PET ANIMALS ACT, 1951.
This Act is designed "to regulate the sale of
pet animals.
Licences in respect of three such premises
were issued during the year.
Fifteen inspections were made and one minor
infringement of the conditions imposed was put
right.
SHOPS ACT, 1950.
Three hundred and fifty-one visits were made
in the administration of this Act, and thirty-one
infringements were corrected.
As a result of a petition from local traders
an Order was made under section 1 (4) of the Act
exempting from the provisions of section 1 shops
in which the trade or business of the retail sale
of motor vehicles, caravans and accessories therefor
is carried on.
Such shops need no longer close for the
serving of customers at 1 o'clock on one week-day
in every week.
DISINFECTION.
(a) During the year disinfection was carried out
at fifty-one premises in which the following
diseases occurred :-
Anterior Poliomyelitis (or suspected) 8
Suspected Diphtheria 1
Meningo-coccal infection 1
Scarlet Fever 15
Tuberculosis 11
Miscellaneous 15
Disinfection was also carried out at forty-nine other
33.