Oct. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3653

this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that
behalf of the Appropriation Act, 1915, and shall operate
accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General in Council
to the raising of the loans hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

Column B.
£
WAIPA County Council .. .. .. 400
Whangarei Borough Council .. .. .. 4,000
Sumner Borough Council .. .. .. 3,750
Franklin County Council .. .. .. 6,000
Petone Borough Council .. .. .. 5,150

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities
from the State Advances Office.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth
day of October, 1918.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty-six, subsection one, of
the Appropriation Act, 1915, it is provided that,
notwithstanding any Act to the contrary, it shall not be
lawful or competent for any local authority or for any
Harbour Board, during the present war with Germany, to
borrow or contract to borrow any money (otherwise than
by way of bank overdraft within the limit of its powers,
if any, in that behalf), whether from the State Advances
Office or from any other source whatever, and whether in
pursuance of a special Act or under any other authority
whatever, without the precedent consent of the Governor-
General in Council :

And whereas application has been made for the consent
of the Governor-General in Council to enable the several
local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto to borrow
the sums set opposite the names of the said local authorities
respectively, for the several purposes specified in the said
Schedule, from the State Advances Office :

And whereas it is expedient that the precedent consent of
the Governor-General in Council should issue :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doth hereby consent to the borrowing from the State
Advances Office of the loans hereinafter mentioned by the
several local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto for the
purposes specified in the said Schedule; and it is hereby
declared that this Order in Council is made under the pro-
visions in that behalf of the Appropriation Act, 1915, and
shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General
in Council to the raising of the loans hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

£
RAGLAN County Council .. .. .. 500
Ohinemuri County Council .. .. .. 550
Kairanga County Council .. .. .. 2,000
Manukau County Council .. .. .. 5,000
Otamatea County Council .. .. .. 4,750
Piako County Council .. .. .. 4,100
Featherston County Council .. .. .. 1,200
Kirikiri roa Drainage Board .. .. .. 500
" .. .. .. 800
Parawera Road Board .. .. .. 5,000
Franklin County Council .. .. .. 600

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

License authorizing the Rangiora County Council to erect
Electric Lines within the Rangiora County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth
day of October, 1918.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two of the Public Works Amend-
ment Act, 1911, it is provided that no person shall
lay, construct, place, put up, or use any electric line except
under the authority of a license issued by the Governor-
General in Council under that Act :

And whereas the Rangiora County Council (hereinafter
referred to as “the licensee”) desires to erect lines within
the area of supply as defined in the Schedule hereto, and
hereinafter called “the area of supply,” and it is expedient
accordingly to issue a license in respect thereof under the
said section :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred upon him by the said section, and of all other
powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, His Excel-
lency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth, subject to the conditions
set forth in the Schedule hereto, and to the regulations
(except clause seventeen thereof, which is replaced by clause
three of the Schedule hereto, to which references in the
regulations to clause seventeen shall apply) made under sec-
tion two of the aforesaid Act, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette dated the twenty-ninth day of April, one
thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and hereinafter referred
to as “the regulations,” hereby authorize the licensee to
erect and maintain electric lines for lighting, power, and
heating purposes within the area of supply hereinafter de-
scribed.

SCHEDULE.

1. AREA OF SUPPLY.

THE area of supply comprises the County of Rangiora as at
present constituted as shown coloured red on the plan marked
P.W.D. 44475, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public
Works, Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington.

2. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (e)
of clause 2 of the regulations.

The electrical energy shall be received from the Lake Cole-
ridge supply at a pressure not exceeding 11,000 volts between
phases, and transformed down for distribution on the three-
phase system at a pressure not exceeding 3,300 volts between
phases.

3. COVERING OF OVERHEAD LINES.

Electric lines at low pressure shall be covered throughout
with triple braiding, thoroughly impregnated with weather-
proof compound; provided that where circumstances permit
the lines may, with the previous consent of the Minister
obtained, and before the work is commenced, be bare.
Electric lines at high pressure shall be insulated with vul-
canized rubber of at least 600 megohm grade; provided that
where circumstances permit the lines may, with the previous
consent of the Minister obtained and before the work is com-
menced, be bare.

Electric lines at extra high pressure shall be bare.

Earthed neutral or intermediate conductors may in all
cases be bare.

Every pole or support carrying extra-high-pressure lines or
high-pressure lines, the conductors of which are bare, shall
have attached to it a plate marked “Danger—Live Wires.”

Bare low-pressure and bare high-pressure lines erected
with the consent of the Minister shall be subject to the fol-
lowing conditions :—

(a.) The electric lines upon which workmen are engaged
shall be disconnected from the source of supply, but if a
suitable raised platform is used the electric lines need not be
so disconnected.

(b.) Where telegraph-lines cross the licensee’s bare electric
lines the licensee shall bear the cost of insulating, protecting,
and maintaining the insulation and protection of all telegraph-
lines, whether erected before or after the bare electric lines,
and also the cost of all special work and the maintenance
thereof which the Minister of Telegraphs deems it necessary
to carry out in consequence of the licensee’s electric lines
being bare.

(c.) When, in the opinion of the Minister of Telegraphs, it
is considered necessary owing to special circumstances that
such bare electric lines at any crossing should be replaced by
electric lines insulated in the manner prescribed in the first
part of this clause, the licensee shall insulate such bare electric
lines when requested to do so by the Minister of Telegraphs.

(d.) When, in the opinion of the Minister, it is necessary in
the interests of the public safety that the use of bare electric
lines should be discontinued, the licensee shall, upon receiving
notice from the Minister, substitute therefor electric lines
covered in the manner prescribed by the first part of this
clause.

(e.) Bare low-pressure wires which at any portion of their
length are carried bare on the same poles or supports as
high-pressure lines or extra-high-pressure lines shall be deemed
to be “infected” throughout their entire length by such high-