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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 26th September, 1904.

THE following notice, received from the Moa Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

MOA ROAD BOARD.

RESULT of poll of ratepayers of the Lepper Road North Special-rating District, taken 6th July, 1904, upon the following proposal: (1.) To form and metal the Lepper Road North from the Junction Road northwards. (2.) To borrow for such purpose the sum of £600, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and its amendments, at 5 per cent. per annum for twenty-six years. (3.) To strike as security for such loan a special rate of 2½d. in the pound. (4.) To constitute the Lepper Road North Special-rating District, to comprise the following lands, viz.: Sections 102, 103, part 105, 107, 108, part 109, part 135, part 136, part 137, Block IV., Egmont Survey District. (5.) All expenses in connection with raising this loan to be paid out of loan-money.

Total number of ratepayers on special roll, 7; total number of votes exercisable, 8; total number of votes recorded for proposal, 6; number of votes recorded against proposal, nil.

I hereby declare proposal carried.

H. TRIMBLE,
Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 27th September, 1904.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Carterton, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

J. G. WARD,
For Colonial Treasurer.

BOROUGH OF CARTERTON.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

In pursuance of the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” notice is hereby given that a poll was taken on the 16th day of September, 1904, on the proposal to borrow £750 for the purpose of constructing open water-races to supply land within the Borough of Carterton, and that such proposal was duly carried.

Number of votes recorded, 108: Number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 66; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 39; number of informal votes, 3.

GEO. A. FAIRBROTHER,
Mayor.

I, George Augustus Fairbrother, of Carterton, in the Provincial District of Wellington and Colony of New Zealand, Auctioneer, and Mayor of the Borough of Carterton, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all proceedings required by law to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the electors to the proposal to borrow £750 for the purpose of constructing open water-races to supply land within the Borough of Carterton have been duly taken, and that the proposal has been duly carried; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

GEO. A. FAIRBROTHER,
Mayor.

Declared at Carterton, this 21st day of September, 1904, before me—James Brown, Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

The Corporation of the City of Dunedin authorised to lay and erect Electric Lines within the City of Dunedin.

IN exercise of the power 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 Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Dunedin (hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation”) to erect, construct, lay down, and maintain electric lines for lighting and power purposes, either overhead or underground, throughout the several streets of the City of Dunedin, which lines are shown in red on the plan marked A deposited in the office of the Superintendent of Electric Lines, and which plan is signed by me as such Commissioner as aforesaid, subject to the following conditions, viz.:

1. Three-phase current shall be used in the high- and low-tension distribution of electrical energy from the converter-station situate on Sections 13 and 14, Block XV., City of Dunedin.

2. The main switchboard shall be equipped with all necessary apparatus, which shall be mounted upon and be attached to material that is non-conducting and not inflammable.

3. At the converter-station the pressure shall be transformed from 5,000 volts to a pressure of 2,200 volts between any two wires for the high-tension distributing-feeders within the city, and for supplying some of the low-tension distributing-mains pressure shall also be transformed at the converter-station from 5,000 to 220 volts. The low-tension distribution throughout the city for lighting, power, and other purposes shall be at a pressure of 220 volts between any two wires, with a periodicity of 50 cycles per second.

4. The feeders and distributing-mains shall be laid underground along the following streets: Along Princes Street from Market Street to the Octagon; along George Street from the Octagon to St. David Street; along High Street from Manse Street to Jail Street; along Jail Street to Stuart Street; and along Stuart Street from Castle Street to York Place.

5. Along all other streets or by-ways within the said City of Dunedin the said electric lines and wires may be placed wholly underground or overhead, or partly underground and overhead, as may be deemed advisable.

6. Transformers may be placed underground in brick or concrete chambers, properly drained, or attached to poles or suitable brick or stone buildings so as to be inaccessible except by the use of a ladder or other special appliance. They may be of oil-filled, air-blast, or any other satisfactory and approved type. The windings of the primaries may be mesh-connected, and where the pressure is transformed from 5,000 volts to 220 volts, or from 2,200 volts to 220 volts, the windings of the secondaries shall be star-connected. The centre point of the star winding and the metal frames of the transformers shall be connected to earth. All transformers shall have easily removable fuses for the primary circuit, and may have secondary fuses, and the fuse-chambers shall be entirely separate from the transformers. All transformers affixed to poles or to suitable buildings shall be fitted with watertight cast-iron cases, and where underground chambers are used for sheltering transformers precaution must be taken to avoid all possibility of the chambers becoming flooded. A test shall be made of each transformer every six months, to see that each coil is highly insulated from the other and from the iron case. A record shall be kept by the Corporation of the result of all such tests.

7. No wire smaller than the equivalent of a No. 6 standard wire gauge shall be used for making earth connections. The earth-wires shall be of stranded copper, and those used for earthing-transformers placed on poles or buildings shall be highly insulated and carefully protected from all liability of damage or of being interfered with. The earth-wires shall be run as straight as possible, and be properly electrically connected to an efficient earth, which shall be provided at the site of the transformer. An examination and test shall be made every three months, and oftener if required, of all earths, to secure that the earth-wire is intact, its insulation unimpaired, that it is in intimate contact with the earth-plate, and that the earth is effective.

8. The wire of all overhead conductors shall be of hard drawn copper, and where rubber insulation is used the copper conductor shall be tinned. The overhead high-tension conductors shall be insulated throughout their entire length with a grade of vulcanised-rubber insulation of not less than 750 megohms per mile. Low-tension conductors which run on the same poles as the high-tension shall be insulated throughout their entire length with not less than 300 megohms per mile grade of vulcanised rubber. Where low-tension conductors only run on poles, weatherproof insulation may be used, except where they cross telegraph, telephone, fire-alarm, or trolly wires.

9. Poles carrying both high- and low-tension conductors shall be spaced at intervals not exceeding 2 chains in length.

10. All overhead lines shall occupy only one side of any street, 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. Where overhead lines cross over railways, the minimum height above the ground of such crossings shall be 22 ft., and where trolly-wires are crossed over, the electric-light wires shall cross at a height above them of not less than 3 ft., and shall be securely suspended by raw-hide hangers or other suitable means from galvanised-steel bearer-wires, which shall be firmly attached to porcelain insulators. As far as possible only the primary wires should cross over