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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 64

shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress
into, through, and out of the aforesaid land and the
hoppers erected thereon without payment.

5. The licensee shall maintain the above-mentioned
   hoppers in good order and repair, and shall at all times
   exhibit therefrom, and maintain at his own cost, suitable
   and necessary lights for the guidance of vessels; pro-
   vided that no light shall be exhibited until after it has
   been approved of by the Minister.

6. Any person authorized by the Minister may at all
   reasonable times enter upon the said hoppers and view the
   state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister leaving at
   or posting to the last known address of the licensee a
   notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such
   hoppers, requiring him within a reasonable time, to be
   therein prescribed, to repair the same, he shall with all
   convenient speed cause such defect to be removed or such
   repairs to be made.

7. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the licensee
   to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or incon-
   sistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regu-
   lation of the Minister of Customs, or with any provisions
   of the Harbours Act, 1908, or its amendments, or any
   regulations made thereunder, and that are now or may
   hereafter be in force.

8. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or
   under this Order in Council shall continue in force for
   the term of fourteen years, computed from the date hereof,
   unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges
   are altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority;
   and the licensee shall not assign, charge, or part with any
   such right, power, or privilege without the previous
   written consent of the Minister first obtained.

9. The licensee shall be liable for any injury which
   the said hoppers may cause any vessel or boat to sustain
   through any default or neglect on his part.

10. In case the licensee shall—

(1.) Fail to exercise the rights hereby conferred for a
period of nine calendar months from the date
hereof ;

(2.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions herein-
before set forth, or any of them ;

(3.) Cease to use or occupy the said land below low-
water mark for a period of thirty days after the
said period of nine calendar months ;

(4.) Become bankrupt, or be brought under the opera-
tion of any law for the time being in force
relating to bankruptcy; or

(5.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause 3 of these
conditions—

then and in any such case this Order in Council, and every
license, right, power, or privilege thereby conferred, may
be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council,
without any notice to the licensee or other proceedings
whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette
of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be
sufficient notice to the licensee, and to all persons con-
cerned or interested, that this Order in Council and the
license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and con-
ferred have been revoked and determined.

11. The removal by the licensee of any shingle or sand,
    or the erection of any hoppers on the said land, shall be
    sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the licensee of the
    terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

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

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Authorizing the Frankton Town Board to erect Electric
Lines within the Frankton Town District.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
second day of July, 1912.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section two of the Public Works
Amendment Act, 1911, it is provided that no
person shall lay, construct, put up, place, or use any
electric line except under the authority of a license issued
to him by the Governor in Council under that Act :

And whereas the Frankton Town Board (hereinafter
referred to as “the Board”) desires to erect electric lines
for lighting and power purposes, and it is expedient ac-
cordingly to issue a license in respect thereof under the
said section :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred on him by the said section, and of all other
powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, His Ex-
cellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of the said Dominion, doth, subject to the
conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto, hereby autho-
rize and license the Board to erect, construct, lay down,
and maintain electric lines for lighting and power purposes
within the Frankton Town District, such electric lines
being indicated by red lines on the plan marked P.W.D.
31431, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public
Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial Dis-
trict.

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SCHEDULE.

CONDITIONS.

1. In the following conditions,—

“Consumer’s wires” means any electric line on a con-
sumer’s premises which is connected with the service lines
of the Board.

“Inspecting Engineer” means the Engineer or other
officer appointed by the Minister for the purpose of in-
specting the works to be constructed or maintained by the
Board.

“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.

“Minister” means the Minister of Public Works.

“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 ensure at all times an imme-
diate and safe discharge of electrical energy.

2. The supply of electrical energy shall be given to
   private consumers by means of direct current on the
   two- or three-wire system at a pressure of 230 volts
   effective between each of the outer wires and the neutral
   and 460 volts between the two outer wires. The declared
   voltage at the consumers’ terminals shall be 230 and 460
   volts respectively.

3. The neutral wire shall be efficiently insulated through-
   out its length, and shall be earthed only at the power-
   station. The earth connection shall be provided with a
   switch for cutting off the earth connection for testing, and
   with a recording ammeter reading to a maximum of
   5 amperes.

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

5. Except where otherwise provided, the overhead con-
   ductors may be of bare hard-drawn copper or aluminium
   wire. If at any time it is found detrimental to the public
   safety to have these wires bare, the Minister may require
   the Board to have them insulated, and they shall thereupon
   be insulated accordingly. 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 such other wires or cables at a pole.

6. Where lead-covered telephone cables or any open
   telegraph or other aerial wires are crossed above or
   beneath by the electric-light wires, the latter wires shall
   be insulated with not less than 600-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.

7. In places where it may be required to cross with the
   electric-light wires through any other aerial wires or
   through cables, 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, preventing
   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 Tele-
   graphs. Where the insulated wires cross through on the
   pole they shall be encased in a protecting tube for the
   entire length of the arms on such pole. If metal pipe is
   used to encase the wires it shall be effectively earthed.

8. Efficient guard-wires shall, if so required by the
   Minister of Telegraphs or the Minister, be erected in a
   manner to meet with the approval of either one Minister
   or the other, or both, as the case may require, at all
   crossings and places where the electric-light wires inter-
   sect telegraph or other wires. The Board shall bear the
   expense of such guard-wires in all cases where an electric-
   light wire intersects a telegraph or other wire previously
   existing.

9. In running the lines authorized by this license through
   streets where no telegraph lines exist, the Board shall
   keep to one side of the street; and in running service wires
   to the opposite side of the street, the Board shall arrange