THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 621

In the matter of a Bill intituled "An Act to
Authorize the Wanganui Gas Company, Limited,
to break up Streets and Bridges, and to lay down
and place Pipes, Conduits, and Service Pipes,
and to make and construct other works for
supplying the Borough of Wanganui with Gas.

NOTICE is hereby given, that application is
intended to be made at the next Session of the
General Assembly of New Zealand for leave to bring
in a Bill to authorize the Wanganui Gas Company,
Limited, incorporated under the provisions of "The
Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860," to break up
streets and bridges, to lay down and place pipes,
conduits, and service pipes, and to make and con-
struct other works for supplying the Borough of
Wanganui and suburbs with gas, and for other pur-
poses relating thereto and to the objects for which the
said Company has been established.

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

1. The Company may, under the superintendence
   of the persons having the control or management
   thereof, open and break up the soil and pavements of
   the several streets, bridges, and wharves within the
   limits of the Act, and open and break up any sewers,
   drains, or tunnels within or under such streets,
   bridges, or 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 washings and waste
   liquids which may arise in the making of the gas, and
   for the purposes aforesaid may remove and use all
   earth and materials in and under such streets and
   bridges, and may in such streets and upon such
   bridges and wharves 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 said limits, doing as little damage as
   may be in the execution of the powers to be granted
   by the said Act, and making compensation for any
   damage which may be done in the execution of the
   said powers.

2. 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 building, or
   providing any person with pipes, burners, meters, and
   lamps, and for the repair thereof, and also from time
   to time enter into any contract with the Wanganui
   Borough Council or Road Board, or other persons
   having the control or management of any streets or
   roads within the limits of the Act, for lighting the
   same with gas, and for providing such Council, Road
   Board, or persons with lamps, lamp-posts, burners,
   and pipes for that purpose, and for the repair 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.

3. 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 remu-
   neration as shall be agreed upon between the Com-
   pany 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 Com-
   pany 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 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.

4. 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 purpose 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
   reasonable time, he shall, for every such offence,
   forfeit to the Company a sum not exceeding five
   pounds.

5. 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 pre-
   mises 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 jurisdiction.

6. That in all cases in which the Company are
   authorized to cut off and take away the supply of gas
   from any house, building, or premises under the pro-
   visions 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 afternoon, and remove and carry away
   any pipe, meter, fitting, or other works the property
   of the Company.

7. 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 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 next tenant
   shall consume any gas without having first given to
   the Company twenty-four hours' notice of his inten-
   tion to do so.

8. 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 sustained by such
   waste.

9. The Company may make by-laws or regula-
   tions, provided the same shall not be repugnant to
   this Act, or to "The Municipal Corporations Act,
   1876," or to any by-law or regulation that may now
   or hereafter be made thereunder, or to any Road
   Board or County Council Act of the General
   Assembly of New Zealand, or to any by-law or regu-
   lation which may now or hereafter be made thereunder
   respectively, and impose any penalty not exceeding
   five pounds for the breach of any by-law or regulation
   of the Company.

10. The limits within which such gasworks are
    intended to be made extend to and include all lands
    lying within a radius of ten miles from the south-east
    corner of Section No. 173 on the plan of the Town of
    Wanganui.

11. Such gasworks as aforesaid are intended to be
    made and maintained in and through the Borough of
    Wanganui and any land which has or which may be
    reclaimed from the Wanganui River for making or
    improving the town and harbour of Wanganui.

12. The works for the manufacture of gas are
    intended to be erected on that triangular piece of
    land situate in and forming part of the Town Belt of
    the Town of Wanganui, containing two acres and
    eighteen perches, more or less, and commonly known
    as the "Gas Reserve." Bounded towards the North
    by a road one thousand and seventy-five links;
    towards the South-east by the Wanganui River one
    thousand links; and towards the South-west by other
    part of Town Belt four hundred and twenty-five links.