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2. Notice of intention to claim the aforesaid bonus must
   be given in writing to the Minister of Mines not later
   than 31st March, 1912.

3. The claim must be made and the conditions duly
   fulfilled on or before the 31st March, 1915.

4. The first claimant who proves to the satisfaction of
   the Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions
   under any of the headings $(a)$, $(b)$, $(c)$, or $(d)$ shall be the
   recipient of the bonus payable under that heading. The
   oil must in each case be produced from the well or wells
   of one proprietary only.

5. All conditions as to quantity, quality, priority, and
   value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer ap-
   pointed for the purpose by the Government.

6. This offer cancels the offer dated the 1st June, 1909,
   and appearing in the New Zealand Gazette.

R. McKENZIE,

Minister of Mines.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks VI, XI, and
XV, Tauakira, and III and VII, Waipakura Survey
Districts, for the Preservation of Scenery.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, the Scenery
Preservation Act, 1908, and the Scenery Preservation
Amendment Act, 1910, to take the land described in the
Schedule hereto for the preservation of scenery. And
notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land
so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at
Koriniti, and is there open for inspection; and that all
persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if
they have any well-grounded objections 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 cf Public Works, at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate Area
of each of the Parcels
of Land
required to
be taken.

A. R. P.
30 1 33 Te Tuhi No. 1
12 1 8 Tauakira 2q
30 3 16
112 2 0
306 1 0
105 0 0
35 2 30
386 2 0 Ohotu No. 5
40 0 0 Te Tuhi No. 1
50 0 0 Ahuahu B
146 0 0 F
50 0 0 A
87 0 0 Ngarakau-
Whakarara

Being Portion
of Block

Situated
in Survey
District of

Shewn
on
Plan

Coloured on
Plan

XV Tauakira P.W.D. Edged
25525 pink.
VII Waipakura Ditto Ditto.

" 2q ..
" 2N ..
" 20 ..
" 2P ..
" 2Q ..
" "
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" "
" "
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XI Tauakira
" "
" "
" "
" "
" "
" "
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All in the Wellington Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as
above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister
of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Pro-
vincial District.

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

R. McKENZIE,

Minister of Public Works.

The Corporation of the Borough of Ashburton authorized
to erect Electric Lines within the Borough of Ash-
burton.

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 Ash-
burton (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

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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.

CONDITIONS.

DEFINITIONS : In the following regulations,--

"Consumer's wires" means any electric lines on a
consumer's premises which are connected to the
service-lines of the Corporation at the consumer's
terminals.

"Pressure" means the difference of electrical poten-
tial 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
pressure 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
pressure 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 immediate 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 not in excess
   of 250 volts when two wires are used, and at not in excess
   of 500 volts 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. Incandescent-
   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; at other places it shall
   be maintained the same as that of the outers. It shall be
   so erected and specially supervised as to reduce to a mini-
   mum its liability to break, so as to avoid the burning-out
   of consumers' lamps. 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 cop-
   per, and where they cross over or under open telegraph or
   any other aerial wires they shall be insulated throughout
   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 re-
   ferred to are insulated at those crossing-spans with not less
   than 300-megohms-per-mile grade of vulcanized rubber, or
   are otherwise satisfactorily insulated. In cases where tele-
   graph or other aerial wires already exist and are required
   to be insulated their insulation shall be effected at the Cor-
   poration'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, subject to an understanding being arrived
   at with the Minister's representative as to what are out-
   lying 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 insu-
   lated 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-
   graphs shall be judge--the latter wires shall be insulated
   as in clause 7, and suspended if deemed necessary.

9. In places where it may be required to cross with the
   electric-light wires through any other aerial wires or through