Oct. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3773

6. All electric wires placed on the consumer’s premises shall be insulated with rubber of 600-megohm grade, and shall be thoroughly protected against injury to the insulation or access of moisture.

7. At telegraph crossings the conductors shall pass over or under telegraph or telephone wires as may be decided by the Minister of Telegraphs. At places where it may be deemed necessary by the Minister of Telegraphs as a protection to telegraph or telephone wires generally, approved guard-wires, effectively earthed, shall be erected by or at the cost of the licensee. Such guard-wires shall be carried on substantial supports at a height of 2 ft. above the conductors if the telegraph or telephone wires pass over the conductors, or 2 ft. above the telegraph or telephone wires if the latter pass under the conductors.

8. Earth-wires where led down poles shall be protected by a casing for a distance of 8 ft. from the ground. A test shall be made every three months, and oftener if required, of all earths to ensure that the earth-wire is intact and that the earth is effective.

9. The construction of the works hereby authorized shall be substantially commenced on or before the 1st day of November, 1914, and shall be completed on or before the 1st day of February, 1915.

10. The licensee shall, prior to the completion of the said works, give to the Minister of Public Works (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”) at least one month’s notice in writing of the estimated date of such completion.

11. The licensee shall not use the said electric lines, or permit the same to be used, for any purpose until the Minister has given notice in writing to the licensee that he has received from the Engineer appointed by him to inspect the works a certificate that they have been satisfactorily carried out.

12. The said electric lines, including their supports, their conductors, and their insulated covering, shall be duly and efficiently supervised and maintained by the licensee as regards both electrical and mechanical conditions, and shall not be permitted by the licensee to remain erected after they have ceased to be used for the supply of electricity.

13. This license, and the benefits and obligations hereunder, shall not be assigned by the licensee without the express consent in writing of the Minister first had and obtained, subject to such conditions and stipulations as he thinks fit to impose.

14. If the licensee fails to comply with any of the conditions of this license the Minister may, by notice in writing, require the licensee within thirty days to remedy the default specified in that notice; and if the licensee fails to comply with the terms of the notice within the said period, it shall be liable to a penalty of £10, to be recoverable by or on behalf of the Minister as a debt due to the Crown.

15. Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding clause of these conditions, if the licensee fails to comply with the terms of any such notice for ninety days after the receipt thereof, the Governor in Council may thereupon revoke this license without further notice.

16. For the purpose of ascertaining whether the conditions of this license are being faithfully complied with by the licensee, the Minister, or any person appointed by him in that behalf, may at all reasonable times enter on the lands and works and inspect the same.

17. Nothing in this license shall be deemed in any way to interfere with, affect, or abridge any rights or powers vested in His Majesty the King, or in the Governor on his behalf, authorizing the construction, management, or working of any public works; nor shall any compensation be payable to or on behalf of the licensee for injury done to the works herein authorized by the construction, management, or working of any such public works as aforesaid, or for the loss occasioned thereby, or for the exercise of any such right or power as aforesaid.

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

Prohibiting all Private Alienation of certain Native Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twelfth day of October, 1914.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and section one hundred and eleven of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by those sections, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby extend the period of an Order in Council made the fourteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, for a further period of twelve months, prohibiting all alienations of the Native land specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienations in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

BLOCK 8, RANGITOTO SURVEY DISTRICT.

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

Week-end Telegrams for Places beyond New Zealand.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twelfth day of October, 1914.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, regulations were made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), prescribing the conditions under which week-end telegrams may be accepted for transmission to places beyond New Zealand and fixing the rates therefor:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke such regulations and to make others in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations made by the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth order that the regulations hereby made shall form part of and be read together with the regulations made by Order in Council dated the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and shall have effect from the day of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.