APRIL 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 453

The Company under the superintendence of the persons
having the control thereof respectively may open and break
up or cross over the soil and pavement of the several streets
roads rivers and bridges within the limits of the Act and
may open and break up or cross over any sewers drains or
tunnels within or under such streets roads rivers and bridges
and lay down and place within or over the same limits pipes
conducts and service-pipes and mains service-lines and dis-
tributing-mains and make construct and do other works and
things and from time to time repair alter or remove the same
and for the purposes aforesaid may remove and use all earth
and materials in and under such streets roads rivers and
bridges and may in or on such streets and bridges erect any
pillars bridges arches or poles lamps and other works and do
all other acts and things which the Company shall from time
to time deem necessary for supplying electrical energy within
the limits hereinafter mentioned doing as little damage as
may be in the execution of the powers by the Act 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 by means of electricity
or supplying with electrical energy any public or private
buildings or for providing any person with pipes service-
mains transformers accumulators conductors burners meters
and lamps and for the repair thereof and may also from
time to time enter into any contract with the Mayor and
Corporation of Christchurch or the City Council thereof or
other persons or body corporate having the control of any of
the streets roads rivers or bridges within the limits aforesaid
for lighting the same or any of them by means of electricity
or for supplying them with electrical energy and for provid-
ing such Mayor and Corporation or City Council persons or
body corporate with lamps lamp-posts burners and pipes
mains transformers accumulators or conductors for such
purpose and for the repairs thereof in such manner and
upon such terms as shall be agreed upon between the Com-
pany and the said Mayor and Corporation City Council or
other persons or body corporate and the maximum charge to
be made for the actual amount of energy supplied to any
consumer or the electrical quantity contained in any such
supply shall be at or according to the rates specified in the
Act or in the Schedules thereto.

That the Company may let for hire any meter for ascer-
taining the quantity of electrical current or electrical energy
consumed absorbed or supplied and also any electrical
fittings including transformers for altering tension and
accumulators for storing the energy 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 electrical energy
supplied 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 proceed-
ing 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 supplied by the Company with
electrical energy in order to inspect the meters fittings
transformers accumulators and other instruments or things
and for regulating the supply thereof and for the purpose of
ascertaining the quantity of current or energy consumed
absorbed or supplied and if any person hinder such officer as
aforesaid from entering and making such inspection as
aforesaid at any reasonable time he shall for every such
offence be liable to forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

That if any person supplied with electrical current or
energy neglect to pay the rent due for the same to the Com-
pany the Company may stop such current or energy from
entering the premises of such person by switching the same
off or by such means as the Company shall think fit and may
recover the rent due from such person together with the
expense of switching off the current or energy and the cost
of recovering the rent by action in any Court of law of
competent jurisdiction.

That in all cases in which the Company are authorised to
switch off and take away the supply of electrical current or
energy from any house building or premises under the pro-
visions of the 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 fore-
noon and four in the afternoon and remove and carry away
any main switch transformer accumulator meter fittings or
other things being the property of the Company.

The Company may make by-laws or regulations provided
the same shall not be repugnant to the Act or to “The
Electric Lines Act 1884” or to “The Municipal Corporations
Act 1886” or to any statutory amendment thereof or to any
Road Board or County Council Act of the General Assembly
or to any by-law or regulation which may now or hereafter
be made thereunder respectively and may impose any penalty
not exceeding the sum of £5 for the breach of any by-law or
regulation of the Company.

The limits within which such works as aforesaid are in-
tended to be made and maintained extend to and include
the Town District of Sumner and all lands lying within a
radius of five miles from the southernmost point of the East
Belt of the City of Christchurch excepting therefrom any
lands which are included in the Borough of Lyttelton.

Such works as aforesaid are intended to be made and
maintained wholly in the County of Selwyn in and through
the City of Christchurch the Boroughs of St. Albans and
Sydenham the Town Districts of Woolston Linwood and
Sumner and portions of the Avon Riccarton Templeton
Spreydon Halswell and Heathcote Road Board Districts.

Dated this 13th day of April, 1891.

HARPER AND CO.,
Solicitors for the said Bill.

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CONTENTS.

APPOINTMENTS .. 440
CROWN LANDS NOTICES .. 443
CUSTOMS .. 442, 445, 447
GENERAL POST OFFICE RETURNS .. 448
LAND—
Taken for Lighthouse .. 439
Taken for Railway .. 442
LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES .. 451
MINING NOTICES .. 451
MISCELLANEOUS—
Civil Service Examination .. 442
Commissioner’s Decisions under Tariff Acts .. 443
Game Notices .. 440
Governor of Auckland College and Grammar
School re-elected .. 443
Immigration and Emigration Return .. 446
Notice to Mariners .. 442
Notice under “The Crown and Native Lands Rating
Act, 1882” .. 442
Officiating Ministers .. 442
Police Officers dispensed with .. 441
Regulations under “The Post and Telegraph
Classification and Regulation Act, 1890” .. 439
Tenders .. 443
NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES .. 444
PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS .. 452

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