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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Such equipment shall be suitable for and capable
of generating electrical energy equal to 100 kilowatts.
(d.) Transmission and other lines over the routes shown
by means of lines and small circles on the said
plan.
(e.) Such further transmission and other lines within the
Borough of Taihape as at present constituted and
within that part of the Rangitikei County situated
between the Taihape Borough boundary and the
Hautapu River, and bordered green on the plan
marked P.W.D. 33664, as may from time to time
be required within such borough and part of the
Rangitikei County respectively.

9. The licensee shall have the right at any time or times
   during the continuance of this license, with the consent of
   the Minister, to enter upon any road or other land, whether
   vested in or occupied by the Crown or any other person or
   body corporate, and there to construct, erect, lay down,
   maintain, renew, or repair all such transmission-lines, poles,
   or other things as are required for the transmission of elec-
   tricity between the generating-station and any of the sub-
   stations to which this license applies.

10. Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding
    clause, no work of any nature shall be erected or constructed
    in pursuance of this license upon, over, or under any part
    of the Government railways until the licensee has obtained
    the consent of the Minister of Railways thereto, as required
    by section 4 of the Government Railways Amendment Act,
    1910 (No. 2).

11. The Inspecting Engineer, both during and after the
    construction of the works, shall have free access to and
    liberty at any time to inspect the same so as to ensure that
    the provisions of this license are given due effect to

12. After the said works have been completed, the licensee
    shall maintain the same in proper working-order during the
    continuance of this license.

13. The licensee is hereby empowered to take, under the
    Public Works Act, 1908, as for a public work, such land
    as may, in the opinion of the Governor, be necessary to
    enable the licensee to construct and maintain the various
    works authorized by this license.

14. Nothing herein shall prevent the Governor in Council
    from granting to any person or body corporate other than
    the licensee a license to take water from any portion of the
    said river except at the place where the licensee is by this
    license empowered to take it; provided that no such license
    shall so operate as to reduce the volume of the water which
    the licensee is by this license authorized to take from the
    said river.

15. If the licensee fails or neglects—
    (a.) To use or maintain the said works after completion
    so as to secure the full benefit of the undertaking;
    or
    (b.) To observe any of the conditions or obligations herein
    imposed,—
    then and in any such case the licensee shall be liable to a
    fine of £50 for every week or part of a week during which
    such default or neglect continues, or the Governor may by
    Order in Council revoke this license.

16. Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding
    clause, this license shall not be revoked and no proceedings
    shall be taken for the recovery of a fine in respect of the
    breach thereof unless and until notice in writing of the in-
    tention so to revoke the license or to take such proceedings
    has been served upon the licensee or placed upon some
    principal or conspicuous part of the works, and default has
    been made by the licensee in repairing or remedying the
    breach or breaches specified in the said notice for the follow-
    ing periods :—
    (a.) For any breach which in the opinion of the Governor
    can be met by a fine, for thirty days after the service
    of such notice.
    (b.) For any breach which in the opinion of the Governor
    is of such a nature as to require the revocation of
    this license, for ninety days after the service of
    such notice.

17. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed in any
    way to limit any rights or powers vested in His Majesty
    the King, or in the Governor on his behalf, or otherwise
    under any Act of the General Assembly authorizing the
    construction, management, or working of any public
    works. Nor shall His Majesty, or the Governor or any
    person on his behalf, be liable to pay to the licensee any
    compensation for injury done to the works herein autho-
    rized by the construction, management, or working of any
    such public work as aforesaid, or for the loss occasioned
    thereby, or for the exercise of any such right or power as
    aforesaid.

18. The licensee may at any time, with the consent of
    the Minister, surrender this license, and shall thereupon,
    if so required by the Minister, remove from the ground all
    removable equipment, machinery, buildings, poles, trans-
    mission-lines, and other plant herein authorized to be
    installed or provided. If the licensee neglects or fails so
    to remove the said plant within twelve months after being
    required so to do, such equipment, machinery, buildings,
    poles, lines, and other plant shall, without payment or com-
    pensation, vest in and become the property of the Crown.

19. The terms and conditions of this license may at any
    time or from time to time, at the request or with the consent
    in writing of the licensee, be altered by the Governor by
    Order in Council.

20. With respect to the transmission and other lines
    authorized to be erected by this license, and to the trans-
    mission and supply of electricity in pursuance thereof, the
    following special provisions shall apply.

SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

21. The system of supply shall be a three-wire direct-
    current system, with a voltage at consumer’s terminals of
    460 volts between the outers and 230 volts between each
    outer and the neutral. The neutral shall be earthed at the
    main switchboard, but otherwise efficiently insulated through-
    out its length. 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.

REGULATION OF PRESSURE.

22. The pressure shall be maintained within 4 per cent.
    above or below the declared pressure at the consumers’
    terminals. The Council shall maintain a suitable recording
    voltmeter, and on complaint by any consumer that the
    variations in voltage exceed these limits, or on the instruc-
    tions of the Inspecting Engineer, the Council shall connect a
    recording voltmeter to record the pressure between the lines
    at their entrance to the consumers’ premises, and shall supply
    to the Inspecting Engineer a chart showing the variations in
    voltage between the lines at this point for a period of seven
    consecutive days. If the variations thus recorded exceed the
    above limits, the Council shall take immediate steps to comply
    with this regulation. If after thirty days a similar chart
    shows that the above limits of variation in voltage are not
    complied with, a breach of these regulations shall be deemed
    to have been committed. If the accuracy of the Council’s
    recording voltmeter is questioned by the consumer, a standard
    instrument shall be supplied by the Inspecting Engineer, the
    readings of which shall be accepted as final.

SWITCHBOARD.

23. All switchboards shall be made of and mounted on
    material that is not inflammable, and no switchboard con-
    ductor shall carry electric current at a density exceeding one
    thousand amperes per square inch.

CIRCUIT-BREAKERS.

24. All outgoing feeders and distributors from any power-
    house or sub-station shall be provided with automatic circuit-
    breakers or fuses, set to open circuit at 50 per cent. excess
    current over the rated full load of such feeder or distributor,
    with a time-limit not exceeding ten seconds.

DISTRIBUTION.

25. The distribution may be carried out either by under-
    ground or overhead conductors, provided that if at any time
    it is deemed by the Minister to be detrimental to the public
    safety for the conductors or any particular class of conductors
    to be overhead they shall, on receipt of notification to
    that effect from the Minister, and within ten months of such
    notification, be laid underground, and all consequent and
    necessary alterations made by and at the cost of the Council.

OVERHEAD ELECTRIC LINES.

26. Overhead electric lines shall be of stranded hard-drawn
    copper, aluminium, or other material of not less than ·0129
    square inches in section, provided that service wires of short
    span may be not less than ·0072 square inches. The lines
    shall be covered throughout with triple braiding thoroughly
    impregnated with weather-proofing compound, provided that
    where circumstances permit the lines may, with the consent
    of the Minister, be bare.

The stress in overhead conductors shall not exceed 25,000 lb.
per square inch for copper and 12,000 lb. per square inch for
aluminium in the extreme case of a temperature of 20° Fahr.
and a wind-pressure of 18 lb. per square foot of diametrical
plane occurring simultaneously. The span between supports
and the sag shall be determined to conform with the above
limiting stresses, provided that the span shall not exceed
200 ft.