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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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is also given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

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SCHEDULE.

All in the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on a plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

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Notice respecting Proposed Alteration in the Boundaries of the Borough of Avenal.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1905.

PURSUANT to section 176 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that a petition in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, has been presented to him, praying that the said area may be excluded from the County of Southland and included in the Borough of Avenal.

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 ADDED TO THE BOROUGH OF AVENAL.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District being Section No. 29, Block I., Invercargill Hundred. Bounded towards the north by the Borough of Gladstone, as described in the New Zealand Gazette, 1882, page 129; towards the east by the said Borough of Gladstone and by the Borough of Invercargill, as described in the New Zealand Gazette, 1902, page 341; towards the south by the Borough of Avenal, as described in the New Zealand Gazette, 1882, page 128; and towards the west by the New River Estuary.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

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The Corporation of the Borough of New Plymouth authorised to erect Electric Lines within and near to the Borough of New Plymouth.

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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 Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of New Plymouth (hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation”) to erect, construct, lay down, and maintain electric lines for lighting and power purposes along and near to Junction and Avenue Roads, between the generating-works situate approximately four miles and a half outside New Plymouth and a distributing-station within the borough, also through the several streets within the borough, which lines are shown on the plans marked A and B, deposited in the office of the Superintendent of Electric Lines, and on which plans the electric lines are indicated by red lines, and which are signed by me as such Commissioner as aforesaid, subject to the following conditions, viz.:

1. Single-phase alternating current shall be used in the transmission of electrical energy between the generating-station and the distributing-station at New Plymouth, a distance of about four miles and a half, and in its distribution within the Borough of New Plymouth.

2. Current shall be generated at the power-station for delivery to transmission-wires at a frequency of 40 to 60 cycles per second, and at a pressure not exceeding 2,300 volts.

3. At the generating-station a properly equipped non-inflammable switchboard mounted upon a substantial iron frame shall be provided, and the current shall be conveyed, through suitable high-tension double-pole break switches and high-tension double-pole fuses or circuit-breakers, from the switchboard to the transmission-lines by rubber-insulated cables of not less than 2,500 megohms grade of insulation, or other approved and satisfactory method. The cables must be carefully protected from liability to injury or to being interfered with.

4. The transmission-wires from the distributing-station to the outskirts of the town shall consist of cable which shall be of stranded hard-drawn copper wire, at least equivalent to a solid copper wire of No. 4 standard wire gauge, insulated with rubber throughout its entire length. The other portion of the transmission-wires may be bare, and, if bare, shall consist of hard-drawn copper wire of not less than No. 4 standard wire gauge.

5. Throughout the whole route the transmission-wires shall be attached to triple-shed highly vitrified porcelain insulators, which may have galvanised-iron swan-neck stems. Over the bare-wire portion of the line the insulator stems may be screwed into opposite sides of the poles, so as to give a minimum distance of 2 ft. between the wires. Over the other part of the line, where cable is to be used, the insulator-stems may be screwed to the poles, so that the insulators may set level with each other on opposite sides of the pole, or over the whole or any portion of the route the wires may be carried on insulators fixed to suitable cross-arms attached to the poles.

6. The poles for the transmission-line may be of ironbark or other approved timber, each not less than 25 ft. long. Approved iron rails may also be used. The spans between the poles, where bare wire is used and the direction of the line is straight, shall not exceed 200 ft. in length, and where insulated wire is used 150 ft. Where the line is curved, or where the wires make a horizontal angle at the point of support, the spans shall not exceed 150 ft. and 130 ft. respectively.

7. Along the transmission-wire route a copper wire not smaller than No. 14 standard wire gauge, and which may be bare, shall be run for telephone purposes between the generating and distributing stations. This wire shall be bound throughout to double-shed porcelain insulators, and for attachment to the poles over that portion of the line which will not be carrying any distributing high- or low-tension wires these insulators may have swan-neck stems. The wire throughout the whole transmission-route may be bound in to insulators with straight stems fixed to suitable cross-arms attached to the poles, or the insulators may be placed on the top of the poles. Two wires may be run for telephone purposes if required.

8. At the generating and distributing stations the transmission-wires shall be securely and safely led in; and protection against lightning by Siemens horn lightning-guards, or other approved high-tension lightning-guards with choking coils shall be provided on both wires at each end of the line. The telephone wire or wires shall be suitably guarded against lightning, and shall be fused, so as to prevent all possibility of injury resulting to any person using the telephone should a power-wire come into contact with the telephone-wire.

9. When wires on the transmission-line cross other lines, either telegraph or telephone, they shall cross at least 2 ft. above, or they may be taken through the other wires on special permission being obtained in each case. If the crossing be made above, the wires on the transmission-line shall be rubber-insulated throughout the whole length of the crossing span. Where the transmission-line wires are taken through telegraph or telephone wires, they shall be rubber-insulated and affixed to porcelain insulators mounted on iron brackets suitably attached to the arms on each side of the line being passed through, and then taken through bell-mouthed iron pipes secured to the arms. The iron pipe and brackets shall be efficiently earthed. Where the wires are taken through telegraph or telephone wires on that part of the route beyond the outskirts of the town, the rubber insulation shall extend at least 12 ft. beyond the supporting insulators on each side. At all such crossings and at all road and railway crossings no span shall, where practicable, exceed 1½ chains in length, and the crossings