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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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13. Candidates must present themselves for examination on the day fixed, as provided in Regulation No. 7.
14. The Minister of Mines retains to himself the right of cancelling any Scholarship should the holder attend irregularly or be reported for idleness or bad conduct.
15. These regulations supersede the further amended regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 25 of the 22nd June, 1912.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Mines.

The Public Works Amendment Act, 1908, Section 5.—License to use Water for Water-power Purposes.

Office of the Minister of Public Works,
Wellington, 12th March, 1913.

THE Minister of Public Works hereby notifies, for public information, that the following are the requirements and provisions subject to which he will be prepared to advise His Excellency the Governor in Council to entertain applications for licenses under section 5 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1908.

REGULATIONS.

APPLICATIONS.

1. EVERY application for a license to use water for power purposes, under section 5 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1908, shall be made in writing to the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, and the applicant shall, when required, supply the Minister with the following particulars:—
   (1.) In the case of a company—
   (a.) Evidence to the satisfaction of the Minister that the company is duly incorporated and registered.
   (b.) A copy of the company’s memorandum and rules.
   (2.) In every case—
   (c.) A lithograph or sketch-plan, to scale of 3 chains to an inch, showing the position of the headworks, the proposed water-race or pipe-line, or both, the position of the generating-station and the tail-race.
   (d.) A statement of the quantity of water to be taken, and the difference in level between the water and the headworks and in the tail-race; a description of the electrical system to be adopted—that is to say, whether direct current or alternating current, and if the latter the number of phases and periodicity, and in either case the pressure.
   (e.) A statement of the extent of the electric power proposed to be developed and the use intended to be made of it.
   (f.) A plan showing the route proposed for the transmission-line, indicating all roads, railways, rivers, post and telegraph lines, and other electric lines, and also private and Crown lands proposed to be crossed or traversed.
   (g.) A statement of the time to elapse between the date of the license and the complete installation and construction of all the hydraulic and electrical plant and works specified in the application.
   (h.) Any further or other information which the Minister may require.
2. The Minister may require all or any of the aforesaid particulars to be verified on oath, and the application may be refused if, in his opinion, any of the particulars are unsatisfactory, or the quantity of water applied for is excessive or the proposed use is improper.
3. If the Minister thinks the application should be further considered, he shall forward it to the Warden of the mining district in which the site of the proposed headworks is situate, or if it is not situate in a mining district, then to the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the land district, whereupon the following provisions shall apply:—
   (a.) The Warden or Commissioner shall require a minute of the application to be advertised, at the cost of the applicant, in such form and in such newspaper as he thinks fit, having regard to the nature and extent of the works, the route proposed for transmission, and the interests likely to be affected.
   (b.) The minute shall call on all persons having any objection to the proposed works to file notice thereof in the office of the Warden or Commissioner, and also to serve a copy thereof on the applicant, within such time before the day of hearing as the Warden or Commissioner prescribes.
   (c.) Subject as aforesaid, the provisions of the Mining Act, 1908, and the regulations thereunder (including the provisions as to fees and costs), shall apply to the application and the hearing thereof in like manner, mutatis mutandis, as in the case of an application for the grant of a mining privilege, save that no survey shall be required unless the Minister considers it necessary, and also that in lieu of himself granting or refusing the application the Warden or Commissioner shall report thereon to the Minister, with such recommendation as the Warden or Commissioner thinks fit.

CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.

4. The license when issued shall be in such form and shall contain such conditions and provisions as the Governor in Council thinks fit, including conditions and provisions for the following purposes:—
   (a.) A limitation as to time within which the powers conferred by the license shall be exercised, and a limitation as to the time within which the complete plant as authorized shall be installed.
   (b.) Power for inspection by the Minister and such officers as he appoints for that purpose, both during and after construction of all works, so as to ensure the provisions of the license being given due effect to, and the law as regards safety of life and property being duly observed.
   (c.) Power to the Governor in Council to impose fines, or suspend or cancel the license, for breach of any of its conditions.
   (d.) A statement of the time during which the license is to be current, and whether or not any renewal of the same can be obtained, and on what terms.
   (e.) A yearly rent charge of 1/20th of a penny per Board of Trade unit generated during any and every year as indicated by a watt-meter.
   (f.) A schedule of maximum charges that may be made by the licensee for the sale or supply of electricity, electrical power, light, or water supplied for mining or any other purposes.
   (g.) Power to the Governor in Council to forfeit, without payment of any compensation, any water delivered at the headworks or dam in excess of the quantity which the turbines installed are capable of utilizing.
   (h.) Requiring the licensee to submit for the Minister’s approval, before the works are commenced, detail plans of the dam and headworks.
5. Before the issue of the license the licensee shall deposit with the Public Trustee a sum of £1 per horse-power for every horse-power authorized to be used, but not exceeding a maximum deposit of £500. Such deposit shall be retained by the Public Trustee, without payment of interest, until the licensee produces a certificate under the hand of an officer appointed by the Minister to the effect that the licensee has duly and properly constructed and installed on the premises the whole of the hydraulic and electrical installations authorized by the license.

NOTE.—A horse-power means a the oretical horse-power, less 20 per cent.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Wellington Land District for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 12th March, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands are open for sale or selection under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, and the Town Hall, Ohakune, on Tuesday, the 29th April, 1913, up to 4 o’clock p.m.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMARINO COUNTY.—WHIRINAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.