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plication to the Board of Control, and on payment of the
cost of such inspection, be inspected and be tested for the
existence of leakage by an Electric Officer. This provision shall be indorsed on every notice given under the
provisions of either of the last two preceding sections.

89. From and after the time when the Corporation commences to supply energy through any distributing-main it
    shall maintain a supply of sufficient power for the use of
    all the consumers for the time being entitled to be supplied
    from such main, and such supply shall be constantly maintained except between the hours of 7.45 a.m. and noon
    on Sundays: Provided that, for the purpose of testing
    or for any other purposes connected with the efficient working of the undertaking, the Board of Control may permit
    the Corporation to further cease the maintenance of
    supply at such intervals of time and for such periods as
    it may think expedient. When the general supply is so
    discontinued, public notice, as far as may be practicable,
    shall be given of such discontinuance, and of the probable
    duration thereof.

90. The variation of pressure at any consumer's terminals shall not under any conditions of the supply which
    the consumer is entitled to receive exceed 4 per cent.
    from the normal pressure at which he is being supplied.

91. The Board of Control may at any time order an
    inspection to be made of the works, lines, and wires used
    for electric lighting and power purposes, and for the proper
    erectio'n and maintenance of which the Corporation is held
    responsible. When a defect or defects are found to
    exist, they must be remedied forthwith, and, should they
    be serious in the opinion of the person inspecting, the
    Board of Control may direct the Corporation to at once
    cease transmitting energy either over the whole of such
    lines and wires or over any part thereof. as to the Board
    may seem fit, until such defect or defects are repaired
    or remedied. The cost of such inspection shall be borne
    by the Corporation.

92. A written notification shall be sent to the Telegraph
    Engineer, Dunedin, in respect of every extension involving the erection of new line or of overhead wire, or with
    respect to the alteration of existing aerial line or wire
    which involves the intersection of wires other than those
    of the Corporation.

93. The recovery of a penalty as provided for in the
    Waipori Falls Electrical Power Act, 1904, shall not affect
    the liability (if any) of the Corporation to make compensation in respect of any damage or injury which may be
    caused by reason of a default of the Corporation.

J. F. ANDREWS.
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under Post and Telegraph Act, 1908. for
Control of Borough of Hastings in Works used for
Electric-lighting Purposes.

ISLINGTON. Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings. at Wellington, this first
day of November, 1911.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, BART.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in him by section one hundred and seventy-
three of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, His Excellency
the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Dominion, doth make the following regulations
for the use, management, and control of the works used
for electric-lighting purposes by the Corporation of the
Borough of Hastings, for the conduct of persons employed
in such works, and for securing the safety of the public
from personal injury or from fire or otherwise.

REGULATIONS.
INTERPRETATION.
In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,-
"Corporation" means the Mayor, Councillors, and
Burgesses of the Borough of Hastings.
"Consumer's wires" means any electric lines on a consumer's premises which are connected to any service lines
of the Corporation at the consumer'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 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 240 to 250
   volts when two wires are used, or at 480 to 500 between
   the two outers of the system where three wires are used.
   The declared pressure at the consumers' terminals shall be
   '40 and 480 volts. Incandescent-lamp circuits for private
   lighting shall be supplied at a pressure of 240 volts.

3. The neutral wire of the three-wire system shall be
   eyarthed 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 consumers' 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 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 referred 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 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 'nsulation; provided that in the outlying streets bare hard-drawn-copper wire may be used for street-lighting purposes. subject 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 Telegraphs shall be the 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 cables because of the impracticability of crossing above or below-and crossing above or below shall be done if possible-all such through crossings, if permitted, shall be effected at a pole. In every case of a through crossing, no matter whose property the lines crossed through may be, the method of carrying the electric-light wires across the pole, protecting them thereon, protecting other wires from coming into contact with them, and protecting persons working on the poles from danger of shock shall be to the satisfaction of the Minister of Telegraphs. The electric-light wires shall be insulated with not less than 300-megohms-per-mile grade of vulcanized rubber where they pass through on the poles and over the whole length of the span on each side of the pole crossed through. Where the insulated wires cross through on the pole they shall be encased in some hard protecting substance for the entire length of the arms on such pole. If metal pipe be used to encase the wires it shall be effectively earthed.

10. In running these lines through streets where no telegraph-lines exist, the Corporation shall keep to one side of the street; and in running service wires to the opposite side of the street to that on which their line of poles is placed the Corporation shall arrange to supply so as to interfere as little as possible with the route on that side of the street.