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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
That if any person supplied with gas neglect to
pay the rent due for the same to the Company
the Company may stop the gas from entering the
premises of such person by cutting off the service
pipe or by such means as the Company shall
think fit and recover the rent due from such
person together with the expense of cutting off
the gas and the cost of recovering the rent by
action in any Court of Law of competent juris-
diction.
That in all cases in which the Company are author-
ized to cut off and take away the supply of gas
from any house building or premises under the
provisions of this Act the Company their agents
or workmen after giving forty-eight hours' pre-
vious notice in writing to the occupier or if no
occupier then after leaving such notice on any
portion of the premises may enter into such
house building or premises between the hours
of nine in the forenoon and four in the afternoon
and remove and carry away any pipe meter
fittings or other works the property of the Com-
pany.
When any consumer leaves the premises where gas
has been supplied to him without paying to the
Company the gas rent due from him the Com-
pany shall be entitled to require from the next
tenant payment of the arrears accruing since the
meter shall have been last taken by the Com-
pany if such next tenant shall consume any gas
without having first given to the Company
twenty-four hours' notice of his intention to
do so.
Every person supplied with gas by the Company
who wilfully suffers any pipe meter or other gas
fitting to be out of repair so that the gas is
wasted shall for every such offence forfeit to the
Company any sum not exceeding five pounds
over and above the loss which the Company
sustain by reason of such waste.
The Company may make by-laws or regulations
provided the same shall not be repugnant to
this Act or to "The Municipal Corporations Act
1867" or to any by-law or regulation that may
now or hereafter be made thereunder or to any
Road Board Act or Ordinance of the General
Assembly or of the Province of Canterbury or to
any by-law or regulation which may now or
hereafter be made thereunder respectively and
impose any penalty not exceeding the sum of
Five Pounds for the breach of any by-law or re-
gulation of the Company.
The limits within which such gas works as afore-
said are intended to be made extend to and include
all lands lying within a radius of two miles from
the south-west corner of Municipal Reserve No. 34
in the Town of Lyttelton in the Province of Canter-
bury.
Such gas works as aforesaid are intended to be
made and maintained in and through the Borough of
Lyttelton and any land which has or which may be
reclaimed from the sea for improving the harbour
of the Town of Lyttelton.
The works for the manufacture of gas are intended
to be erected on section No. 326 and part of section
No. 327 of the Town of Lyttelton containing by ad-
measurement one rood and twenty perches more or
less commencing at the south-west corner of the sec-
tion No. 326 extending thence along the south-
western boundary of the said section No. 326
and section No. 327 a distance of 150 links in a
south-easterly direction thence in a north-easterly
direction at right angles with the westernmost
boundary of section No. 327 to the north-eastern
boundary of section No. 327 thence along the north-
eastern boundary of sections Nos. 327 and 326 to the
north-west corner of section No. 326 and thence in a
south-westerly direction along the north-western
boundary of said section No. 326 to the commencing
point.
It is not intended to apply for powers to remove
the works for the manufacture of gas from the land
aforesaid.
The plans and books of reference and copy of
notice to be inserted in the Gazette will be deposited
for public inspection at the office of the Commis-
sioner of Crown Lands for the Province of Canter-
bury in the City of Christchurch in the said Province
on or before the 28th day of May instant, and will on
or before the commencement of the Session be depo-
sited in the office of the Colonial Secretary and in the
Examiner's Office.

Dated this 28th day of May, 1874.

HENRY N. NALDER,
Solicitor for the Bill.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
Parliamentary Agent.
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