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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

SCHEDULE.
MANUNUI DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 52 acres 2 roods 34·4 perches, more or less, being Section No. 15, Manunui Village. Bounded towards the north-west and north-east generally by a road 1 chain wide along the bank of the Wanganui River; towards the south-east by Section No. 14, 1959 links; and towards the south-west generally by public roads, 953·3 links, 675·9 links, 1378·2 links, and 483·3 links.

Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres 0 roods 16 perches, more or less, being Section No. 140, Manunui Village. Bounded towards the north-east generally by a road along the bank of the Wanganui River, 609·8 links, 398·3 links, and 484·7 links; towards the south generally by Sections Nos. 75 and 76, by the abutment of a road, and by Section No. 144, 388·2 links, 314 links, and 750·2 links; and towards the north-west by the abutment of a road and by Crown lands, 737·6 links.

Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same are delineated on the plans marked L. and S. I/539A and I/539B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

License authorizing the Kaponga Town Board to use Water from the Kaupokonui Stream for the Purpose of generating Electricity and to erect Electric Lines in the Kaponga Town District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1915.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section five of the Public Works Amendment 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 electricity 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 subject 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 Kaponga Town Board (which with its successors and assigns is hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) has applied for a license under the said section to take and use water from the Kaupokonui Stream, in the Provincial District of Taranaki (hereinafter referred to as “the said stream”), 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 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 Board, subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, a license to take and use from the Kaupokonui Stream aforesaid, for the purposes hereinafter set forth, a stream of water (hereinafter referred to as “the said water”) not exceeding twenty-five cubic feet per second at any one time, and also to erect and maintain within the Town District of Kaponga as at present constituted (hereinafter referred to as “the area of supply”) as indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 36898, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, electric lines for lighting, heating, and power purposes as hereinafter described.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.

1. In this license—
   “Board” means the Kaponga Town Board.
   “Consumer’s wires” means any electric lines on the consumer’s premises which are connected with the Board’s electric lines.
   “Distribution line or lines” means the portion of any line from which service wires are connected for the purpose of supplying consumers.
   “Earthed” means connected to the general mass of earth in such manner as to ensure at all times an immediate and safe discharge to earth of electric energy without danger.
   “Electric line” means any wire, wires, conductor, or other means used for conveying, transmitting, or distributing electricity for power, lighting, or heating purposes, and includes any instrument, insulator, casing, tubing, pipe-covering, or post enclosing or supporting an electric line or anything connected therewith.
   “Inspecting Engineer” means and includes any Inspecting Engineer appointed by the Minister to inspect works to be constructed or maintained by virtue of 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.
   “Low pressure” means pressures up to 650 volts.
   “Minister” means the Minister of Public Works.
   “Pressure” means difference of electric potential between any two conductors through which supply of energy is given, or between any part of either conductor and the earth.
   “Public Works Engineer” means the engineer in charge of the Public Works District in which the area of supply is situated.
   “Street” includes road.
   “Telegraph” includes telephone.
   “Telegraph line” has the same meaning as “electric line” in the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908; and also includes all telegraph, telephone, and electric signalling wires belonging to the Government Railways Department.

2. The said water shall be used solely for the purpose of generating electricity.

3. The said water shall be taken from the said stream at the headworks, situated about 16 chains up the said stream from Eltham road bridge over the said stream, at a point indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 36898, hereinafter referred to.

4. From the said headworks the water shall be conducted in a southerly direction by means of a pipe-line for a distance of about 18 chains to the power-house, the positions of the said pipe-line and power-house being more particularly delineated on the plan referred to in the last preceding clause hereof. All water taken from the said stream by the Board in pursuance of this license shall be returned thereto at the power-house.

5. The Board shall, in respect of this license, pay to the Public Works Engineer at present stationed at Stratford, or otherwise as the Minister may from time to time require, a fee of one pepper-corn per annum if demanded.

6. This license shall, unless sooner determined in accordance with the provisions hereinafter expressed, continue in force for a period of forty-two years, commencing on the date hereof. Upon the expiry of the said term, or upon the sooner determination of this license by revocation or otherwise, all rights hereby granted to the Board shall thereupon cease and determine, but such expiration or determination shall not relieve the Board of any liability therefor incurred under this license.

7. This license may be assigned by the Board with the express consent in writing of the Governor in Council.

8. The Board is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and use the following works for the purposes of this license, the position of the said works being indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 36898 hereinafter referred to:—
   (a.) Headworks consisting of a dam and necessary intake.
   (b.) Pipe-line leading from such dam to the power-house hereinafter referred to.
   (c.) A power-house with all necessary equipment, including water-turbines, generators, lightning-arresters, switchboards, switches, exciters, and other appliances for generating electricity. Such equipment shall be suitable for and capable of generating electrical energy equal to 45 kilowatts.
   (d.) Electric lines over the routes shown by means of small circles on the said plan.