THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 857

For six (6) working days of eight (8) hours each,
from 12 midnight to 8 a.m., first water, one pound
(£1); second water, ten shillings (10s.); and third
water six shillings (6s.), for each sluice head.
The whole of the above-mentioned rates shall be
paid monthly in advance.

6. The term "first water" shall mean the water
   taken from any of the races before being used for
   mining purposes; "second water" shall mean
   water taken up after being once used for mining
   purposes; and "third water" shall mean water taken
   up after being twice used for mining purposes.

7. The rates at which water shall be sold for work-
   ing saw-mills or other machinery shall be two pounds
   ten shillings (£2 10s.) for each sluice head per
   week of six working days of eight hours each, from
   8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

8. A day, hour, and place shall be appointed by
   the Manager for receiving the first applications for
   the supplies of water from the races for mining pur-
   poses, and the same shall be notified not less than
   seven (7) days previously by advertisement in some
   newspaper circulating in the district where the races
   are situated.

9. Any person desiring to obtain a supply of water
   from the races for mining purposes shall apply in
   writing to the Manager in the Form A in the
   Schedule hereto, stating the quantity of water
   required and when to be used, and where and when
   required to be supplied, and the number of hours per
   day that the same is required. All such applications
   shall be kept by the Manager, and numbered con-
   secutively as received.

10. If the quantity of water that any person
    applies for is available at the time for sale and de-
    livery where specified, the Manager shall issue to the
    applicant a water ticket in the Form B in the
    Schedule hereto, stating the quantity of water the
    applicant has applied to be allowed to purchase.

11. The applicant shall present the water ticket
    to the Manager, who shall receive from him, in ad-
    vance, the price of water therein mentioned, and give
    him a receipt in the Form C in the said Schedule;
    and it shall be lawful for the Manager from time to
    time to receive from the person named in such water
    ticket the price of water therein mentioned in
    advance.

12. In-allotting water to applicants, the Manager
    shall give a preference to the earlier applicants; but
    in case the amount of water applied for shall at any
    time exceed the quantity available for sale and delivery,
    it shall be lawful for the Manager to allot to appli-
    cants less quantities of water than they have applied
    for.

13. The holder of a receipt shall be entitled to
    the quantity of water therein specified, to be delivered
    at such times and places (being regular points of
    delivery from the races) as he may indicate to the
    Manager, provided the same can be conveniently ar-
    ranged, but shall have no absolute claim to such
    supply at such times or places.

14. Whenever the supply of water in the races
    shall be less than sufficient to supply to all the holders
    of water tickets the full quantity of water to which
    they are entitled, it shall be lawful for the Manager
    to reduce the supply to each holder of a water
    ticket in a proportional rate, as nearly as may be;
    and if, after such reduction has been made, the supply
    shall still be insufficient, the water available shall be
    apportioned to the several holders of water tickets
    at the reduced rate in order of their priority so far
    as it will go.

15. The Manager shall keep an account, in which
    he shall credit the holder of a water ticket with
    the amount of money received from him for water,
    and shall debit each holder of a water ticket with
    the value of water supplied to him; and in case of
    reduction of or stoppage of supplies, as in the last
    section provided, the holder of the water ticket
    shall be entitled to have the amount made up to him
    in water whenever a sufficient supply shall again be
    available for the purpose, or in cash by way of
    refund.

16. The Manager shall turn on, or cause to be
    turned on, the water from the races for the supply of
    the purchasers, and turn off, or cause to be turned off,
    the same; and no person shall turn on water or turn
    it off, or in any way interfere with the gauges, except
    by the authority of the Manager.

17. In case any person shall have paid in advance
    for a supply of water, and shall cease to require such
    water, it shall be lawful for him to obtain a refund of
    so much of the money so paid by him as is in excess
    of the value of the water delivered to him, and such
    refund shall be made by the Manager or paid out of
    the Colonial Treasury upon a voucher certified by the
    Manager.

SCHEDULE.

FORM A.

No. 187

To the Manager of the Nelson Creek Water-race.

I [or we] hereby make application for sluice heads
of water, to be delivered at or near Peg marked miles
chains on the Nelson Creek Water-race, between the
hours of and
Applicant.

FORM B.

NELSON CREEK WATER-RACE.

Water Ticket.

No. is the applicant for water.
His application is for sluice heads, which he requests
may be delivered at miles chains, between the
hours of and
Of the applications for water between and
received previous to receipt of application, the follow-
ing are still current :-
Nos. , comprising applications for sluice
heads of water daily, between and
Manager.

No. 187

FORM C.

NELSON CREEK WATER-RACE.

Receipt.

RECEIVED from Mr. the sum of pounds
shillings pence sterling for weeks
days nights supply of water, heads.

From To Manager.

187

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
fourth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Public Works.

Alterations and Additions to the Rates for the Con-
veyance, Delivery, and Storage of Goods, Parcels,
&c., on all the New Zealand Railways.

N-accordance with the By-laws for the New Zea-
land Railways, fixed by Order in Council, dated
the 17th day of April, 1877, the following alterations
to the rates for the conveyance, delivery, and storage