1784
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

12. The lessee shall whenever necessary, but not less than once a year during the term of his lease, properly clean and clear from weeds, and shall at all times during the said term keep open, all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses upon the land; and the Commissioner of Crown Lands (hereinafter called “the Commissioner”), or any Crown Lands Ranger of the land district, shall have the power at any time to enter upon and make through the land any drain or watercourse that he deems necessary, without payment of any compensation to the lessee; and it shall be lawful for the Commissioner to have such work done, and to recover the cost of the same from the lessee in the same manner as rent.

13. In any case where the channel of any creek, or natural or artificial water-race or watercourse, runs on more sections than one, then each lessee on whose land any part of such channel runs shall have the right to the reasonable use and enjoyment of a reasonable proportion of the water that would flow in such channel if it were not stopped or diverted by any other lessee; and for the purpose of securing such right as between the respective lessees it is here declared that no lessee on whose land any portion of such channel runs shall at any time alter such portion, or stop or divert the water flowing therein, save to such extent as the Commissioner deems reasonable, and the decision of the Commissioner shall be final and conclusive.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Approving of Removal of Shingle from the Hutt River.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of August, 1902.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section one hundred and fifty-six of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve of plan in duplicate, marked M.D. 2550, showing (in red) shingle accumulations which the Hutt River Board propose to remove from the tidal lands and waters of the Hutt River, subject to the condition that a reasonable quantity of shingle shall be left alongside the banks of the river for their protection.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Part of the Livingstone-Kyeburn Road to be a County Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of August, 1902.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by section one hundred and two of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the road described in the Schedule below, and which was made by the Governor under powers contained in “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and has hitherto been a Government road, shall on and after the date of this Order in Council become a county road within the Waitaki County.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the road known as the Livingstone-Kyeburn Road which commences at Pukeraro, on the said Livingstone-Kyeburn Road, and runs in a generally south-westerly direction to the Maruwenua Bridge over the Maruwenua River, near the said Township of Pukeraro, and opposite to Section No. 3, Block X., Maruwenua Survey District; all in the County of Waitaki, in the Land District of Otago: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked R. 1515, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Renewing Regulations under “The Electric Lines Act, 1884.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of August, 1902.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fifteen in Part I. of “The Electric Lines Act, 1884” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, amend, and revoke regulations for the transmission of telegrams by means of any electric line, and for the other purposes in such section mentioned; and by section forty-four in Part III. of the said Act it is provided that all powers, duties, and authorities contained in or exercisable under Part I. of the said Act in relation to the construction and maintenance of electric lines of communication by telegraph, and the regulation thereof, and all other powers and authorities therein contained, may, mutatis mutandis, be applied and exercised in relation to electric lines of communication by telephone: And whereas by Orders in Council named in the First Schedule to this Order in Council, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the dates set forth in such First Schedule, regulations were made for the aforesaid purposes, and also for the purpose of transmission of messages by telephone, and for the payments to be made therefor; and it is desirable to revoke such regulations and to make others in lieu thereof in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the regulations and the fees and rates specified in the First Schedule hereto, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations and fix the fees and rates set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, for the purposes of the transmission of telegrams by means of electric lines, and for their delivery, and for the disposal of all unclaimed or undelivered telegrams, for fixing and determining the fees and rates to be demanded and received for the transmission of any telegram, and otherwise; and doth hereby order and declare that such regulations, fees, and rates shall be in force and take effect on and from the first publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.