Aug. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1793

sented to him praying that the said area may be excluded from the Borough of Blenheim and included in the Omaka Road District.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration within one month from the first publication of this notice.

Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

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SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE BOROUGH OF BLENHEIM.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 145 acres 2 roods 38 perches, more or less, being part of the Borough of Blenheim, bounded towards the north by Robinson Street; towards the east by Allotments Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of original Section No. 50, Block XVI., Cloudy Bay Survey District, from Robinson Street to Pitchill Street; thence by the abutment of the said Pitchill Street and by Allotments Nos. 146 and 145 of the said Section No. 50 to St. Andrew Street; thence towards the south and again towards the east by the western and southern extensions of the said St. Andrew Street to Nelson Street; thence again towards the south by the said Nelson Street to Section No. 52; and thence towards the west by the said Section No. 52 to Robinson Street aforesaid.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

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Notifying Land in the Wellington Land District subject to “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900.”

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Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 7th August, 1903.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Normandale Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

NORMANDALE SETTLEMENT (WESTERN HUTT).

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,623 acres, more or less, being part of Subdivision 10 of the Maungaraki Block, and parts of Sections 24, 28, 75, 185, 186, 307, and 312, and Sections 80, 109, 115, 129, 190, 300, 301, 302, 308, 309, 310, 311, 319, 320, 321, 322, 422, 423, and 424, of Block VIII., Belmont Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Sections 329, 323, and 303; towards the east generally by the North Line Road, Belmont Road, and by parts of Sections 185, 186, 75, and 24, and the Wellington-Napier Railway-line; towards the south by Section 20; towards the west generally by part of Subdivision 10 and Subdivisions 9, 8, 5, and 7 of the Maungaraki Block, and Sections 22, 24, 25, 26, and 27, all in Block VIII., Belmont Survey District: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G. 19289, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon edged with red.

R. J. SEDDON,
For Minister of Lands.

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Corporation of Campbelltown authorised to erect an Electric Line in the Borough of Bluff.

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IN exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by “The Electric Lines Act, 1884,” I, Joseph George Ward, the Electric Telegraph Commissioner appointed under the said Act, do hereby authorise and license the Corporation of Campbelltown to erect, construct, and maintain an electric line for lighting purposes through the several streets in the Borough of Bluff, as such borough is now constituted under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” and which electric line is indicated by red and blue lines shown on the map (marked “B”) deposited in the office of the Superintendent of Electric Lines, and signed by me as such Commissioner as aforesaid, subject to the following conditions, namely:—

1. The system for the supply of electrical energy shall be that known as the low-pressure, continuous-current, three-wire system.

2. Continuous current shall be generated at a voltage not exceeding 500 volts between the two outer wires of the system. The declared pressure at consumer’s terminals shall be 220 and 440 volts. Lamps shall be supplied at a pressure of 220 volts.

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Low-pressure energy may be transmitted on bare copper wires, except as hereafter otherwise required.

3. Accumulators may be used in connection with the system.

4. The main switchboard shall be made of and be mounted upon material that is not inflammable.

5. The said electric-lighting line and wires shall be aerial throughout, and shall be placed on the opposite side of the streets where any telegraph or telephone lines exist at the time of their erection, except by permission from the Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

6. Where the erection of the electric-light line or wires necessitates the alteration of existing telegraph or telephone lines or wires, the expense of such alterations shall be borne by the above-named Corporation.

7. The maximum working-current in any conductor shall not be sufficient to raise the temperature of the conductor, or any part thereof, to such an extent as to materially alter the physical condition or specific resistance of the insulating covering, if any, or in any case to raise such temperature to a greater extent than 30° Fahr. The cross-sectioned area and conductivity at joints must be sufficient to avoid local heating, and the joints must be carefully made, using resin as a flux, and must be protected against corrosion. The sectional area of all conductors from any distribution block must be maintained throughout the circuit, and joints should be made only when branching off a circuit, and should be at least 8in. distant from a joint in a conductor of opposite polarity.

8. The sectional area of the conductor in any electric line laid or erected in any street shall not be less than the area of a circle of 1/10 in. diameter, and where the conductor is formed of a strand of wires each separate wire shall be at least as large as No. 20 standard wire gauge.

9. All material used for insulating electric lines or apparatus shall be of the best quality, and thoroughly durable and efficient, having regard to the conditions of its use. Suitable provision shall be made for the protection of the insulating material against injury or removal.

If the protection so provided be wholly or partly metallic it shall be efficiently connected with earth.

10. Any metallic body to be “efficiently connected with earth” shall be connected with the general mass of the earth in such manner as will insure at all times an immediate and safe discharge of electrical energy.

11. Every main shall be tested for insulation after having been placed in position and before it is used for the purposes of supply, the testing pressure being at least 220 volts, and the Corporation shall duly record the results of the tests of each main or section of a main.

12. The insulation of every complete circuit used for the supply of energy, including all machinery, apparatus, and devices forming part of or in connection with such circuit, shall be so maintained that the leakage-current shall not under any conditions exceed one-thousandth part of the maximum supply-current; and suitable means shall be provided for the immediate indication and localisation of leakage. Every leakage shall be remedied without delay.

Every such circuit shall be tested for insulation at least once in every week, and the Corporation shall duly record the results of the testings:

Provided that where the Electric Telegraph Commissioner has approved of any part of any electric circuit being connected with earth the provisions of this section shall not apply to that circuit so long as the connection with earth exists.

13. Where any portion of any electric line or any support for an electric line is exposed in such a position as to be liable to injury from lightning it shall be efficiently protected against such injury.

14. Every aerial line shall be attached to supports at intervals not exceeding 200ft. where the direction of the line is straight, or 150ft. where the direction is curved or where the line makes a horizontal angle at the point of support.

15. Every support for an aerial line shall be of a durable material, and properly stayed against forces due to wind-pressure, change of direction of the line, or unequal lengths of span. The factor of safety shall be for aerial lines and suspending wires at least 6, and for all other parts of the structure at least 12, taking the maximum possible wind-pressure at 50lb. per square foot. No addition need be made for a possible accumulation of snow.

Every support, if of metal, shall be efficiently connected with earth.

16. All aerial lines shall be attached to porcelain insulators, and shall be so guarded that they cannot fall away from the support.

17. Any aerial line or wire shall not in any part thereof be at a less height from the ground than 18ft., or within 5 ft. measured horizontally or 7 ft. measured vertically from any building or erection other than a support for the line, except where brought into a building for the purpose of supply.