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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 75

Declaring Portion of Kawakawa Bay to Hauarahi Stream Road, in the Franklin County, to be a County Road.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of September, 1912.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 hereby order and declare that the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of road in the Auckland Land District, Franklin County, known as Kawakawa Bay, to Hauarahi Stream Road, commencing at a point of junction of roads in the north-western portion of Te Kawakawa No. 2099 (red) Block, Block V, Wairoa Survey District, and proceeding thence towards the east generally along the northern boundary of Te Kawakawa No. 2099 (red) Block, along sea-front on the northern boundary of Te Kawakawa No. 2 No. 2550 (red) Block, and Orere and Taupo No. 2547 (red) Block, Blocks V and VI, Wairoa Survey District; thence in a southerly direction generally through the said Orere and Taupo No. 2547 (red) Block and part of Kiripaka No. 2010 (red) Block, Blocks VI and X, Wairoa Survey District, to the Kiripaka Stream, being a distance of about four miles and a half: as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 32289, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red and lettered A B.

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

Declaring a Road in Block XI, Waitara Survey District, to be a Government Road.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of September, 1912.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 hereby order and declare that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a Government road.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Taranaki Land District; as the said road is 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 Provincial District.

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

License authorizing the Hastings Borough Council to erect Electric Lines within and beyond the Borough of Hastings.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of September, 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 by the Governor in Council under that Act: And whereas the Hastings Borough Council desires to erect electric lines within and beyond the Borough of Hastings, and it is expedient accordingly to issue a license in respect thereof under the said section:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the said section, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, 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, subject to the conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto, hereby authorize the Hastings Borough Council to erect and maintain electric lines for lighting and power purposes within the Borough of Hastings as indicated by red lines on the plan marked P.W.D. 31083, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and along the Omahu–Havelock North Road from the boundary of the borough to Havelock North, and thence by the Te Mata Road and Duart Road to the lands owned by one Thomas Mason Chambers, and thence through a portion of the said lands to the reservoir of the Hastings Borough Corporation situate contiguous to the said lands, as indicated by red lines on the plan marked P.W.D. 32359, also deposited in the said office.

REGULATIONS.

CONDITIONS.

In these conditions, 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.

“The Minister” means the Minister of Public Works.

“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.

“Street” includes road.

“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 240 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 earthed only at the power-station. It shall be so erected and specially supervised as to reduce to a minimum its liability to break. 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-