Nga Ture O Niu Tireni: I Pahitia I Roto I Te Tau Wha Te Kau Ma Rima O Te Kuinitanga O Kuini Wikitoria, Me Te Nohoanga Tuatorutanga O Te Paremete Tuawhitu O Niu Tireni, I noho ki Poneke i timate i te rua te kau ma waru o nga ra o Mei, 1881.

Description of Sufficient Fence

Description of Sufficient Fence.

1.	A post-and-rail fence, at least 4 feet in height, of substantial material, firmly erected, with no greater distance between the rails or between the rails and the ground than 9 inches, and the poats not more than 9 feet asunder.
2.	A substantial upright paling, at 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 posts and two rails, and having split or sawn timber placed perpendicularly, and well nailed to both rails, there being not more than 4 inches of opening between each perpendicular piece of timber.
4.	A substantial wire fence, having not less than seven wires tightly stretched, or six wires with a top rail, with posts of durable wood or iron, well and substantially erected, the posts or standards to be not more than 9 feet apart, top wire not to be page 10less than 4 feet from the surface 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 a1ways that such bank be well formed, and made up to within 3 inches of the lower wire; provided also that a wooden rail may be substituted for the top wire.
5.	A stone wall not less than 4 fect in height, exclusive of the coping, and not less than 2 feet 6 inches in width at base.
6.	A bank or wall of substantial materials, at the least 4 feet 6 inches in height, of which the slope is not more than 1 foot from the perpendicular.
7.	A close and sufficient live fence, at least 4 feet in height, proof against cattle; such fences to be kept properly trimmed.
8.	A combination of the above kind of fences, at least 4 feet in height.
9.	A ditch not less than 3 feet in width and 2 in depth, with a bank and wires not less than 3 feet 6 inches in height, the wires to be tightly strained, with not more than 8 inches between the wires, and 6 inches between the bottom wire and the bank, and the standards or binding wires to be not more than 9 feet apart.
10.	A double sod wall not less than 33 inches wide at the bottom, and 18 inches at the top: the sod work to be not less than 26 inches above the level of the gronnd, with a ditch on each side not less than 9 inches below the level of the ground, and three wires above the wall tightly strained; the total height of the fence to be not less than 39 inches above the level of the ground.
11.	A sod wall not less than 16 inches above the level of the ground, with fonr wires above the wall, with a ditch on each side not less than 9 inches below the level of the ground; the total beight of the fence to be not less than 39 inches above the level of the ground.
12.	An American 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 chock and logs, and sound timber firmly studded in, not less than 4 feet 6 inches above the surface of the ground.
14.	A fence of butts of fern trees, erected perpendicularly, and stuck not less than 2 feet 6 inches in the ground, not less than 4 feet 6 inches above the surface of the ground, nor more than 5 inches apart.
15.	For swampy land a ditch, not less than 6 feet wide and 2 feet deep, with bank not less than 3 feet high, with posts not less than 4 feet high from the 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 not less than 4 feet 6 inches high from the surface of the ground, nor more than 9 feet apart where rails are used, nor more than 8 feet apart where 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 made in any other way equal in efficiency to any of the above-mentioned fences.