FENCING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 868, 8 September 1881, Page 2

FENCING.

The following is, the schedule containing a: description' ■ of : sufficient ; fence''' attached to Mr Bryce's Fencing Bill. Mr Bryce must be quite an artist in fencing. 1. A post-and-rail fence, at least 4 feet in height, of substantial material, Srmly erected, with' no'greater distance between the rails' or between the rails and the ground than 9innh'es,.and |l|e pqsjs ndl■'. more than 8 feet asunder. '■■'•[ > • '' 2.A substantial upright paling, a£ least 4 feet in height, with no greater distance between the palings than 4 inches. 3. Any paling fence, 4 feet 3 inches high, with post and two rails, and having split or sawn timber placed perpendicularly, and well nailed to both rails, there being not morn than 4 inches of opening between each perpendicular piece of timber.

& A substantial wire fence, having not less than soven wires tightly stretohed, or six wires with a top-rajl, with posts of durable wood or jron/weliand' subsW tially erected, the posts orstandards, to be not more than 9 feet apart, top wire not to be less than 4 feet from the sur< face of the ground; and the wires to be not lighter than No 8 in iron or No 12 in steel. The space between each of the three bottom wires,' or the' bottom wire and the ground not to exceed 6 inches, A bank; may be substituted for the lower wires, provided always jihat Buch bank be well formed, atjd made"i)p to within § inches of the lower" wjre'j'provided al§q that a woodenrail'may be substituted for. the top wire, ' ' ' " ' , is. f A stone wall not less than 4 feet in height, exclqsive of the coping, and not less.than 2 feet (j inches in width at base. ; 6. A ban]cor wal}of subslaptialmaterajs at the >leaßt 4 feet r g inches ,in height, of which the slope' is, not nfore'than 1 loot from the perpendicular 7. A close and sufficient live fence, at least 4 feet in height, proof against cattle;

auoh fences to bo kept properly trimmed ' once at the least in wry. year. • ■_•>■ • '•"B,'A combination of the above kind.of of fences, at least four foot high. 9. .A'dit'oh notiessthan 8 feet in width and2in depth, with a bank and witesnot less than-3 feet' 6 inches in' height, the wires to be tit;htly strained, with not more than 8 inches' between'the wires, and (J inches; between the bottom wire and the bank, and the standards, or . binding wires to be not more than 9 feot \ apart. | ".,".' "]' ",' ' . 10. A doutle sod wall not less than 33 ; :' inches wide at the bottom, and 18 inches ' at the top,: the sod work, to be, not. Jess than 26 inches above the lovel of the : ground, with a ditch on each side not less than. .9, inches below the level of the ' !! lsJU|j!B> s an d-three \vire3 above the wall k flatly, attained ; the total height.of : the - fenco.to be not less than 39 inches above the level of the ground. 11. A sod wall not leas than 1G inches above the level of the ground, with four wires above the wall, with a ditch on each aide not less than nine inches below the level of the ground ; the total height of tho fence to be not less than 39 inches above the ground. 12. An Ainorican chock-and-log fence, not less than four logs, and not less than 4 feet 6 inches from the surface of the ground. 13. A stub fence, not less than double ohbck and logs, and sound timber firmly Btuddod in, notiessthan 4 feet Cinches above tho surface of the ground. 14. A fenco of butts of fern trees, erected perpendicularly, and stuck not less than 2 feet G inches in the ground, not less than 4 feet 6 inches above the surface of tho ground, nor more than 5 inches apart. 15. For swampy land n ditch, not less than 4 feot wide and 2 feet deep, with bank not less than 3 feet high, with posts not less than 4 feet high from tho surface of the ground, and more than 9 feet apart, with not less than two rails or three wires, or with one rail and two wires, or posts and four rails, or posts and seven wires, with ditch, as already described, and no bank, the posts being nnt less than 4 feet 6 inches high from tho surface of the ground, nor more than 9 feet apart where rails are used, nor more than 8 feet apart whero wires are used, the posts being inserted into the ground not less than 2 feet. 16. Any other description of fence mutually agreed upon by the persons interested. 17. A fence mude in any other way equal in efficiency to any of the abovementioned fences. Uqt to bb ereoted within Towns. }B. A ditch, not less than 3 feet broad, with a bank or any fence or combination of the above sorts of fences on either side thereof, the top ot which shall be at least 5 feet G inches from the bottom of the ditch and 3 feet 6 inches above the level of the ground, and where the slope of Ihe bank on the ditch side thereof is not more than j. h) J), and the slppo of the ditch on the bank side nut more than 1 in 2. 19, A bank or dyke, not less than 4 feet G inches high, substantially formed, i with turf on both sides, on a base not I less than 3 feet 0 inches hruad, and having a ditch not less that 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep on oach side of 6uch bank.