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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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distributing-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, rivers,
and bridges, and may in or on such streets and bridges erect
any pillars, 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 this 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 Auckland, 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 providing such Mayor and Corporation, 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
company 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 for the electrical quantity contained in any
such supply, shall be at or according to the rates specified in
this Act or in the schedules hereto.

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 ac-
cumulators 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 remu-
neration shall be recoverable in the same manner as the
rents or sums due to the company for electrical energy sup-
plied; 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 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
costs 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 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 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 this Act or to “The
Electric Lines Act, 1884,” or to “The Municipal Corpo-
rations Act, 1886,” or to any statutory amendment thereof,
or to any Road Board or County 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 five pounds 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 City of Auckland, the Borough of Parnell, the Borough
of Newmarket, the Borough of Devonport, and all lands
lying within a radius of five miles from the Auckland City
Market.

Such works as aforesaid are intended to be made and
maintained wholly in the Counties of Waitemata, Eden, and
Manukau, and through the City of Auckland, the Boroughs
of Parnell, Newmarket, and Devonport, and the whole or
portions of the Mount Eden, Eden Terrace, Mount Roskill,
Epsom, Remuera, and One-Tree Hill Road Districts.

Dated this 13th day of April, 1891.

HESKETH and RICHMOND,
Solicitors for the said Bill.

By Authority: GEORGE DIDS BURY, Govt. Printer, Wellington.