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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
PART XIV.--FIRES &c.
145.-(1.) The chief constable or in his absence the inspector of the fire brigade of the Corporation or other officer of such fire brigade for the time being in charge of the engine or other apparatus for extinguishing fires attending at any fire within the borough shall from the time of his arrival and during his presence thereat have the sole charge and control of all operations for the putting out of such fire whether by the Corporation or any other fire brigade including the fixing of the positions of fire engines and apparatus the attaching of hose to any water pipes or water supply and the
selection of the parts of the building on fire or of adjoining buildings against which the water is to be directed.
(2.) The chief constable or in his absence such inspector or other officer in charge shall have power to stop or regulate the traffic in any street whenever in his opinion it is necessary or desirable to stop or regulate such traffic for the purpose of extinguishing any fire or for the safety or protection of life or property.
146. Any police constable acting under the orders of any of his superior officers and any member of the fire brigade of the Corporation being on duty and any officer of the Corporation may enter and if necessary break into any building in the borough being or reasonably supposed to be on fire or any buildings or lands adjoining or near thereto without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof respectively and may do all such acts and things as he may deem necessary for extinguishing fire in any such building or for protecting the same or rescuing any person or property therein from fire.
147. The Corporation may subject to the sanction of the Local Government Board and under such conditions as they may prescribe from time to time erect on any land belonging to them and not specifically appropriated to other purposes such cottages as they think
fit for the habitation of their firemen and may let the said cottages or any of them to such firemen on such terms and conditions at such rent or free from rent as the Corporation think fit.
PART XV.-COMMON LODGING-HOUSES.
148. The keeper of every common lodging-house shall reside constantly and shall remain between the hours of nine o'clock in the afternoon and six o'clock in the forenoon in such house and shall manage control and exercise proper supervision over the same and the inmates thereof except at such times as some other person appointed by him for that purpose and whose name is registered
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