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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 71

3. DATUM TEMPERATURE.
   For the purpose of calculating the stresses as provided in clause 12 of the regulations, the datum temperature shall be taken as 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. NOTICES re EXTENSIONS, ETC.
   Records of results of tests (Regulation 37), and notices re commencement of work (Regulation 44) and re extensions and alterations (Regulation 49), should be sent to the Under-Secretary, Public Works Department, Wellington, and to the Telegraph Engineer of the district, or his deputy, at present stationed at Auckland.

5. CHARGES FOR ELECTRIC ENERGY.
   The charge for electrical energy shall not exceed 9d. per unit for lighting purposes, and 5d. per unit for motor-power, heating, or cooking purposes; provided that "lighting purposes" shall include the operation of motor generators for lighting purposes. The charge herein of 5d. per unit for motor-power, heating, or cooking purposes shall be reduced to 4d. per unit in two years' time from the date of 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 from 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 licensee shall thereupon cease and determine; but such expiration or determination shall not relieve the licensee of any liability theretofore incurred under this license.

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

Portions of the Eastern Side of Hobson Street, the Southern Side of Lemon Street, and the Western Side of Watson Street, in the Borough of New Plymouth, 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 tenth day of April, 1917.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., 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 a 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, and clause (b) of subsection one of section thirteen of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, it is provided that such approval may be either absolute or subject to such conditions as the Governor in Council thinks fit to impose, and may refer to one or both sides of the road or street:

And whereas the New Plymouth Borough Council, the local authority having control of the portions of streets described in the Schedule hereto, has passed the following resolution—viz., "That the New Plymouth Borough Council, being the local authority having control of the streets hereinafter mentioned, hereby resolves and declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to such portions of the following streets within the Borough of New Plymouth as are hereinafter described—(a) that portion of Lemon Street to which Pukenui Street and Subdivisions 1 to 9 (both inclusive) shown on plan No. 3096, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at New Plymouth, have frontages; (b) that portion of Watson Street to which Subdivisions 9, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, and 29, shown on the said deposited plan No. 3096, have frontages; (c) that portion of Hobson Street, between Lemon Street and Gilbert Street, to which Sections 2117, 2131, 2147, 2162, and Pukenui No. 14 have frontages":

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved, in so far as it refers to the portions of the eastern side of Hobson Street, the southern side of Lemon Street, and the western side of Watson Street, described in the Schedule hereto:

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 Acts, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution to the extent hereinbefore mentioned.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that portion of Hobson Street, in the Taranaki Land District, Borough of New Plymouth, situated between Lemon and Gilbert Streets, and adjoining Sections 2117, 2131, Pukenui No. 14, 2147 and 2162, shown on plan P.W.D. 31451.
Also all that portion of Lemon Street, in the said land district and borough, adjoining Subdivisions 1 to 9, D.P. 3096, shown on plan P.W. 41985.
Also all that portion of Watson Street, situated between Lemon Street and the Public Cemetery, and adjoining Subdivisions 9, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, and 29, D.P. 3096, shown on plan P.W.D. 41985.
As the said portions of streets are more particularly delineated on the plans marked as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £3,500 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Waitomo.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1917.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Waitomo County Council, acting under and in pursuance of section sixteen (e) of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, lately proposed to raise a loan of three thousand five hundred pounds for the following purposes, namely:
(a.) For widening, culverting, and metalling Ngapaenga Road from the end of the present metal;
(b.) For widening, culverting, and metalling Tawarau Road from its junction with Ngapaenga Road to the northern boundary of Section 2, Block III, Maungamangero Survey District;
(c.) For widening, culverting, metalling, and bridging the Mahoenui-Kawhia Road from Section 1, Block VII, Maungamangero Survey District, to the north-east corner of Section 9, Block III, Maungamangero Survey District:

And whereas the ratepayers' consent given under section sixteen (e) aforesaid is irregular, in that one of the subscribing ratepayers has attested the signatures of the other subscribers thereto:

And whereas the said ratepayers have not been in any way misled by the said irregularity, and it is expedient that the irregularity should be validated:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and of every other power and authority enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the ratepayers' consent shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the signatures to the same had been properly witnessed, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £2,500 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Matamata.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1917.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Matamata County Council, acting under and in pursuance of section sixteen (e) of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, lately proposed to raise a loan of