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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Tauranga Racecourse Domain.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of March, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section forty of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, with respect to any public domain, appoint such persons (not exceeding nine) as he thinks fit to be a Domain Board having, subject to Part II of the said Act, control of such domain:

And whereas by an Order in Council made on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four, a Domain Board was appointed to control the Tauranga Racecourse Domain:

And whereas the period for which the said Board was appointed expired on the twelfth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen:

And whereas it appears expedient to again appoint a Domain Board to control the domain:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint

GERARD ARNOLD WARD,
JAMES McCLURE DARRAGH,
THOMAS TANNER,
DAVID ASHER, and
HENRY AUGUSTUS SHARP

to be the Tauranga Racecourse Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of the said Act; and doth hereby appoint Monday, the third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, at four o’clock p.m., as the time when, and Messrs. Sharp and Tudhope’s Office, Tauranga, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

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SCHEDULE.

TAURANGA RACECOURSE DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 200 acres, more or less, being Allotments 22, 23, 24, and 25, Parish of Te Papa, Tauranga Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Allotment 373, the abutment of a public road, Allotment 22B, the abutment of a public road, and Allotment 22A, all of the Parish of Te Papa, 4262 links; towards the south-east by a public road 100 links wide, 5067 links; towards the south-west by Allotment 38 of the aforesaid parish, 3680 links; and towards the north-west by Allotments 528 and 527 of the aforesaid parish, 5054 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/567, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Plan 435, blue.)

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

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License authorizing Edward Parker, Flax-miller, Blenheim, to use Water from Murphy’s Creek, Blenheim, Marlborough Provincial District, for the Purpose of generating Electricity.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of March, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 Edward Parker, of Blenheim, Flax-miller (who, with his successors and assigns, is hereinafter referred to as “the licensee”), has applied for a license under the said section to take and use water from Murphy’s Creek, Blenheim, in the Provincial District of Marlborough (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 all other powers in anywise 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 licensee (subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto) a license to take and use from the said stream, for the purposes hereinafter set forth, a stream of water (hereinafter referred to as “the said water”) not exceeding one hundred cubic feet per second at any one time.

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SCHEDULE.

1. UTILIZATION OF THE WATER.

The said water shall be used for the purpose of generating electricity, and shall be returned to the Omaka River at or near the power-house. Nothing in this license shall affect the liability of the licensee in respect to the riparian rights of the owner of any property affected by the diversion of the said water from the said stream to the Omaka River.

2. LOCATION OF HEADWORKS.

The said water shall be taken from the said stream at the headworks, situated near the junction of the said stream with the Omaka River in Section 5, Block XVI, Cloudy Bay Survey District, at a point indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 36932, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

3. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORKS.

The licensee 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. 36932 hereinbefore referred to.

(a.) Headworks consisting of a dam and necessary intake.

(b.) Race 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, and other appliances for generating electricity.

4. MAINTENANCE OF WORKS.

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

5. POWER TO TAKE LAND.

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.

6. DURATION OF LICENSE.

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 1st January, 1915. 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 licensee shall thereupon cease and determine; but such expiration or determination shall not relieve the licensee of any liability theretofore incurred under this license.

7. RENTAL.

The licensee shall, in respect of this license, pay to the Public Works Engineer at present stationed at Blenheim,