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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 June, 1914, and shall be completed on or before the 1st day of August, 1914.

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; but such consent shall not be withheld if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Minister that the transferee is financially and otherwise able to carry out the obligations specified in this license.

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 said 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 work 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.

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of April, 1914.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor, by Order in Council gazetted, may, on the recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908:

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the Rangitopuni Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the Rangitopuni Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall, from the thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Blocks XIV and XV, Waiwera Survey District, and Blocks II and III, Waitemata Survey District, Waitemata County, being Allotment 227 and the south-eastern portion of Allotment 224, Parish of Pukeatua, containing 108 acres 2 roods, more or less, and being Rangitopuni Kauri-gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated 21st August, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 71, of 24th August, 1899.

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

Pomona Road and Centre Street, in the Borough of Invercargill, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of April, 1914.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply in any case where the local authority having control of any road or street by resolution declares that the provisions thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by the Governor in Council:

And whereas by subsection two of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is provided that such approval may be either absolute or subject to such conditions with respect to the building-line as the Governor, by Order in Council, thinks fit to impose:

And whereas the Invercargill Borough Council, being the local authority having control of the streets described in the Schedule hereto, did by resolution declare that the provisions of the said section one hundred and seventeen should not apply to the said streets:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution, in so far as it affects the said streets described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Pomona Road, in the Borough of Invercargill, Southland District, commencing at its junction with John Street, and proceeding thence in a northerly direction to its junction with Oteramika Road, being a distance of 50·5 chains, more or less.

Also all that portion of Centre Street, in the said borough and land district, commencing at its junction with Pomona Road, and proceeding thence in an easterly direction to its junction with Conyers Street, being a distance of 19 chains, more or less.

As the said streets are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 35375, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured blue.

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