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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block IV, Nuhaka
Survey District, for the Purposes of a Native School.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute
a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a Native
school in Block IV, Nuhaka Survey District, and for the
purposes of such public work the land described in the
Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is
hereby further given that the plan of the land so required
to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Nuhaka, and is
there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by
the execution of the said public work or by the taking of
the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objec-
tions to the execution of the said public work or to the
taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send
such writing, within forty days from the first publication of
this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land required to be taken :—

In the Land District of Hawke’s Bay; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 29803,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works,
at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this eighteenth
day of July, one thousand nine hundred and
eleven.

R. McKENZIE.
Minister of Public Works

Motor-cars.—Value for Duty.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the
Customs Law Act, 1908, I, Roderick McKenzie,
Minister of Customs, do hereby direct—
(a.) That, in order to arrive at the correct basis of value
for duty of the bodies and accessories of motor-cars, the
invoices for such cars shipped to New Zealand after the
30th September, 1911, shall be expected to show, in addi-
tion to the price to be paid for the complete car, a state-
ment showing the price ordinarily charged for home
consumption in the country whence exported of the chassis,
tires, body, foot-boards, mud-guards, lamps, and any other
accessories when sold separately, also the usual and ordi-
nary trade discount on such articles when sold for home
consumption in the quantities appearing in the invoice.
(b.) That a declaration in the following terms shall be
made on the face of each invoice by the manufacturer or
supplier, or by some person authorized on his behalf :—
I, , manufacturer or supplier of the goods de-
scribed in this invoice, do hereby declare that the prices
shown therein for the complete car and for the several
parts as separately stated are, at the present time, not less
than the prices charged to purchasers of similar cars and
parts when sold for home consumption in similar quantities
in this country.

Witness :
Signature :
Date :
Date :

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this thirteenth
day of July, one thousand nine hundred and
eleven.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 967.]

The Corporation of the Borough of Gisborne authorized
to erect Electric Lines within the Borough of Gisborne.

IN exercise of the power and authority conferred upon
me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, I, Thomas
Mackenzie, the Acting Minister of Telegraphs, appointed
under the said Act, do hereby authorize and license the

Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Gis-
borne (hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation”) to
erect, construct, lay down, and maintain electric lines
for lighting and power purposes through those streets
within the borough in which the electric lines are shown
on the plan marked “A,” deposited in the office of the
Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, and on
which plan the electric lines are indicated by red lines,
and which is signed by me as such Minister as aforesaid,
subject to the following conditions, viz. :—

DEFINITIONS.

In the following regulations “consumer’s wires” means
any electric lines on a consumer’s premises which are con-
nected to any service lines of the Corporation at the con-
sumer’s terminals.

“Pressure” means the difference of electrical potential
between any two conductors through which a supply of
energy is given, or between any part of either conductor
and the earth.

Where the conditions of supply are such that the pres-
sure at any pair of consumer’s terminals does not exceed
250 volts, the supply shall be deemed a low-pressure
supply.

Where the conditions of supply are such that the pres-
sure exceeds 250 volts, but does not exceed the maximum
voltage of the system, the supply shall be deemed a
medium-pressure supply.

“Telegraph” includes telephone.

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 imme-
diate and safe discharge of electrical energy.

1. The supply of electrical energy shall be given by the
   continuous-current two- or three-wire system.

2. Continuous current shall be generated at a voltage
   not exceeding 250 when two wires are used, or not ex-
   ceeding 500 between the two outers of the system where
   three wires are used. The declared pressure at the con-
   sumers’ terminals shall be 220 and 440 volts. Incan-
   descent-lamp circuits for private lighting shall be supplied
   at a pressure of 220 volts.

3. The neutral wire of the three-wire system shall be
   earthed only at the power-station. It shall be so erected
   and specially supervised as to reduce to a minimum its
   liability to break, so as to avoid the burning-out of con-
   sumers’ lamps. At other places its insulation shall be
   maintained the same as that of the outers. A switch
   shall be provided to cut off the earth from the neutral wire
   for testing purposes.

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

5. All overhead conductors shall be of hard-drawn
   copper, and where they cross over or under open telegraph
   or any other aerial wires they shall be insulated through-
   out the entire length of every crossing-span with not less
   than 300-megohms-per-mile grade of vulcanized rubber,
   except that where it may be impracticable or undesirable
   to so insulate the electric-light wires over spans at such
   crossing-places the insulation of the electric-light wires
   may be triple weatherproof; provided that all other aerial
   wires referred to are insulated at those crossing-spans
   with not less than 300-megohms-per-mile grade of vul-
   canized rubber, or are otherwise satisfactorily insulated.
   In cases where telegraph or other aerial wires already
   exist and are required to be insulated, their insulation
   shall be effected at the Corporation’s expense, and shall
   be to the satisfaction of the Minister of Telegraphs.

6. All electric-light wires shall be insulated throughout
   their entire length, and, except where otherwise provided,
   that insulation may be triplex weatherproof compounded
   insulation. In the outlying streets bare hard-drawn-
   copper wire may be used for street-lighting purposes, sub-
   ject to an understanding being arrived at with the
   Minister’s representative as to what are outlying streets.
   If at any time it be found detrimental to the public
   safety to have these wires bare, they shall be insulated
   when deemed necessary. No electric-light wire shall
   come within 3 ft. of any other class of aerial wires or of
   cables, except where it may be permitted to pass the
   electric-light wires through these other wires or cables at
   a pole.

7. Where lead-covered telephone-cables are crossed
   above by the electric-light wires, the latter wires shall
   be insulated with not less than 300-megohms-per-mile
   grade of vulcanized rubber throughout the crossing-span,
   and over every such span they shall be suitably suspended
   from effectively earthed steel bearer-wires if the Minister
   of Telegraphs shall so require.

8. Where lead-covered telephone-cables may be crossed
   under by the electric-light wires, if the height and other
   circumstances permit—and of this the Minister of Tele-