THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Copies of the Bill will be deposited in the Examiner's
Office on or before the commencement of the Session.

It is intended to apply for the following powers on
behalf of the Company, that is to say,-

The Company, under such superintendence as is
hereinafter specified, may open and break up the soil
and pavement of the several streets, bridges, and
wharves within the limits of this Act, and may open
and break up any sewers, drains, or tunnels within or
under such streets, bridges, and wharves, and lay
down and place within the same limits pipes, conduits,
service pipes, and other works, and from time to time
repair, alter, or remove the same, and also make any
sewers that may be necessary for carrying off the wash-
ings and waste liquids which may arise in the making of
the gas, and for the purposes aforesaid may remove
and use all earth and material in and under such
streets and bridges, and may in such streets erect any
pillars, lamps, and other works, and do all other acts
which the Company shall from time to time deem
necessary for supplying gas within the limits herein-
after mentioned, doing as little damage as may be in
the execution of the power hereby granted, and making
compensation for any damage which may be done in
the execution of such powers.

That the Company may from time to time enter
into any contract with any person for lighting or
supplying with gas any public or private buildings,
or for providing any person with pipes, burners,
meters and lamps, and for the repair thereof, and may
also from time to time enter into any contract with
the Timaru Borough Council, Road Board, or other per-
sons having the control of any of the streets within the
limits aforesaid, for lighting the same or any of them
with gas, and for providing such Council, Road Board,
or persons with lamps, lamp-posts, burners, and pipes
for such purpose, and for the repairs thereof, in such
manner and upon such terms as shall be agreed upon
between the Company and the said Council, Road
Board, or other persons.

That the Company may let for hire any meter for
ascertaining the quantity of gas consumed or supplied,
and any fittings for the gas, for such remuneration in
money as shall be agreed upon between the Company
and any person to whom the same may be so let, and
such remuneration shall be recoverable in the same
manner as the rents or sums due to the Company for
gas, and such meters and fittings shall not be subject
to distress for rent of the premises where the same
may be used, nor to be taken in execution under any
process or proceeding of a Court of law, or equity, or
in bankruptcy, against the person in whose possession
the same may be.

That the Clerk, Engineer, or other officer duly
appointed for the purpose by the Company, may at
all reasonable times enter any building or place lighted
with gas supplied by the Company in order to inspect
the meters, fittings, and works for regulating the
supply of gas, and for the purposes of ascertaining
the quantity of gas consumed or supplied; and if any
person hinders such officer as aforesaid from entering
and making such inspection as aforesaid at any reason-
able time, he shall for every such offence forfeit to the
Company a sum not exceeding five pounds.

That if any person supplied with gas neglects 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 recover-
ing the rent by action in any Court of law of competent
jurisdiction.

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

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of this Act, the Company, their agents or workmen,
after giving forty-eight hours' previous 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 after-
noon, and remove and carry away any pipe, meter,
fittings, or other works the property of the Company.

When any consumer leaves the premises where gas
has been supplied to him without paying to the Com-
pany the gas rent due from him, the Company shall
be entitled to require from the next tenant payment
of the arrears accruing since the meter shall have
been last taken by the Company, if such 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 Pro-
vince of Canterbury, or to any by-law or regula-
tion 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 regulation of the Company.

The limits within which such Gasworks as afore-
said are intended to be made, extend to and include
all lands lying within a radius of ten miles from the
south-east corner of the allotment No. 227 on the
plan of Rhodes' Township of Timaru, deposited in
the Land Transfer Office as Plan No. 1, which said
allotment is part of Rural Section No. 8 on the map
of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury,
setting out and describing the rural lands in the
Timaru District of the said Province.

Such Gasworks as aforesaid are intended to be
made and maintained in and through the Borough of
Timaru, and any land which has or which may be
reclaimed from the sea for making or improving the
harbour of the Town of Timaru.

The works for the manufacture of gas are in-
tended to be erected and are being erected on those
pieces of land containing by admeasurement one acre
and twenty-seven perches, more or less, being the
allotments Nos. 314, 233, 231, and 227 on the plan of
the Messieurs Rhodes' Township of Timaru, deposited
in the Land Transfer Office as Plan No. 1, and being
parts of Rural Section No. 8 on the map of the Chief
Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out
and describing the rural land in the Timaru District
of the said province, commencing at the south-eastern
corner of allotment No. 315 on the said plan, and
extending back in a westerly direction a distance of
two hundred and fifty links; thence at a right angle
southerly a distance of five chains; thence at a right
angle easterly a distance of one hundred and fifty-
one links, or thereabouts; thence at an angle to a
point in a line with the eastern boundary of said
allotment No. 231; thence in a direct line 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 Commissioner