3554

Consenting to a Mortgage of Native Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventh
day of September, 1914.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section two hundred and thirty of the
Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided that no instrument of alienation of Native land by way of mortgage or
charge, other than a mortgage or charge in favour of a State
Loan Department, shall be confirmed by a Board or the
Court without the precedent consent of the Governor in
Council:

And whereas application has been made for the consent of
the Governor in Council to a mortgage of the block or parcel
of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto: And whereas it
is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor in
Council should issue:

Now, therefore, 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 consent to the confirmation of an alienation
by way of mortgage of the block or parcel of land set out in
the Schedule hereto. And it is hereby declared that this
Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf
of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly
as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings
hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

Kopua lb 2 Section 3A Block :. Approximate area, 32 acres;
Auckland Provincial District.

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

Directing Sale of Railway Land under the Public Works
Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fourteenth
day of September, 1914.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the thirtieth section of the Public
Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said
Act”), it is enacted that if it is found that any land held,
taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or
any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise how-
soever for any public work, is not required for such public
work, the Governor may, by an Order in Council publicly
notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the
conditions set forth in the said Act:

And whereas the parcel of land described in the Schedule
hereto has been, inter alia, taken for the purposes of the
Kaipara-Waikato Railway by a conveyance dated the
twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three, and duly registered in the office of the
Registrar of Deeds at Auckland, as No. 48184 :

And whereas the said parcel of land is not now required
for the purposes of the said Kaipara-Waikato Railway, and
the Minister of Railways has recommended that this Order
in Council should be issued directing such parcel of land to
be sold:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and direct the
sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land: 1 acre and 30·6
perches.
Portion of railway reserve (S.O. 17676, blue).
Situated in Block XI, Drury Survey District, Franklin
County.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 21811,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at
Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon coloured green.

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

[No. 102

License authorizing the New Plymouth Borough Council to
use Water from the Waiwakaiho River for the Purpose of
generating Electricity, and to erect Electric Lines within the
Borough of New Plymouth and the Taranaki County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fourteenth
day of September, 1914.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section five of the Public Works Amend-
ment Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may
from time to time by Order in Council grant to any person
or body corporate a license to use water from any fall, river,
stream, or other source for the purpose of generating elec-
tricity for electric light, mechanical power, or other uses,
and to exercise in respect of that purpose any of the powers
and authorities specified in that behalf in the said section:
And whereas it is further provided by the said section that
any such license may confer upon the licensee a right at any
time or times during the continuance of the license (but sub-
ject to such conditions and restrictions as are expressed in
the license) to enter upon any road, railway, 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 cables, wires, and
other things as are required for the transmission of electricity
between the fall, river, stream, or other source aforesaid, and
any place to which the licensee is authorized to transmit
electricity in pursuance of the license:

And whereas the New Plymouth Borough Council (which,
with its successors and assigns is hereinafter referred to as
“the Council”) has applied for a license under the said
section to take and use water from the Council’s waterworks
on the south bank of the Waiwakaiho River near the
junction of Albert and Waiwakaiho Roads in Section l,
Block X, Paritutu Survey District, Taranaki Land District
(hereinafter referred to as “the said waterworks”), for
the purpose of generating electricity as aforesaid, and it
is expedient to issue such license accordingly:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred upon him as aforesaid, and of the powers conferred
by section two of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911,
and of all other powers in anyway 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 hereby grant
to the Council, subject to the terms and conditions set forth
in the Schedule hereto, a license to take and use from the
said waterworks, for the purposes hereinafter set forth, a
stream of water (hereinafter referred to as “the said water”)
not exceeding one hundred and fifty cubic feet per second
at any one time; and also to erect and maintain electric
lines for power, lighting, or heating purposes within the area
of supply hereinafter described.

SCHEDULE.

Conditions of License.

1. In these conditions—

“Consumer’s wires” means any electric line on the con-
sumer’s premises connected with the Council’s elec-
tric-supply lines:

“Council” means the New Plymouth Borough Council:
“Earthed,” as applied to any conductor, means that
such conductor shall be so connected to the general
mass of earth as to ensure at all times an immediate
and safe discharge to earth of electrical energy:

“Electric line” means any wire, wires, conductor, or
other means used for conveying, transmitting, or
distributing electricity for power, lighting, or heat-
ing purposes, and includes any instrument, insu-
lator, casing, tubing, pipe, covering, or post enclosing
or supporting an electric line or anything connected
therewith:

“Extra high pressure” means pressures over 3,300 volts:
“High pressure” means pressures over 650 volts and up
to 3,300 volts:

“Inspecting Engineer” means and includes any Inspect-
ing Engineer appointed by the Minister to inspect
works constructed or maintained by virtue of any
electric-line licenses, or any water-power licenses, or
any combined water-power and electric-line licenses
issued under the Public Works Act, 1908, and any
or all of its amendments, or under any one or more
of such amendments only or any Act or Acts passed
in amendment thereof or substitution therefor: