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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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15. SURRENDER OF LICENSE.

The licensee may at any time, with the consent of the Minister, surrender this license, and shall thereupon, if so required by the Minister, remove from the ground all removable equipment, machinery, buildings, poles, transmission and distribution lines, and other plant herein authorized to be installed or provided. If the licensee fails or neglects so to remove the said plant within twelve months after being required so to do, such equipment, machinery, buildings, poles, lines, and other plant shall, without payment or compensation, vest in and become the property of the Crown.

16. CHARGES FOR ELECTRIC ENERGY.

The charge for electrical energy shall not exceed 1s. per unit for lighting purposes, and 6d. per unit for motor-power, heating, or cooking purposes; provided that “lighting purposes” shall include the operation of motor generators for lighting purposes.

17. AREA OF SUPPLY.

The area of supply comprises the Borough of Akaroa as at present constituted.

18. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (b) (1) of clause 2 of the regulations.
The generating voltage shall be approximately 220 volts between the terminals.

19. DATUM TEMPERATURE.

For the purposes of calculating stresses as provided in clause 12 of the regulations, the datum temperature shall be taken as 30° Fahrenheit.

20. 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 Christchurch.

21. REQUIREMENTS OF AKAROA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the licensee shall not be entitled to erect, maintain, or use any electric lines within the Akaroa County, except subject to such conditions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this license and the regulations relating thereto, or any variation of this license or the regulations or new regulations which may take the place of these regulations, as may from time to time be agreed upon between the licensee and the County Council.

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

Portion of Motupipi Road, in the Takaka County, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourteenth day of January, 1918.

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 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-General 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-General by Order in Council thinks fit to impose:

And whereas the Takaka County Council, being the local authority having control of the portion of the road described in the Schedule hereto, has passed the following resolution—viz., “That portion of Motupipi Road from its junction with Factory Road, between Sections 18 and 10, to Sublot 2 of Lot 1 of Section 9, Block X, Waitapu Survey District (a distance of about eighteen chains), be exempted from the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908”:

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

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Motupipi Road, in the Nelson Land District, Takaka County, commencing at its junction with Factory Road, and proceeding thence in a south-easterly direction to the northern boundary of Sublot 2 of Lot 1 of Section 9, Block X, Waitapu Survey District.

As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 43252, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Preferential Tariff.—Regulations under the Customs Duties Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourteenth day of January, 1918.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Customs Duties Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, 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 declare that the regulations made under the said Act on the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and gazetted on the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, as amended by the regulations made on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and gazetted on the third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, shall be further amended by adding to subclause (d) of clause 1 thereof the following proviso:—

Provided that the provisions of this clause as applied to oils not otherwise enumerated, including mineral lubricating oils in vessels capable of containing one gallon or more, shall be interpreted subject as nearly as possible to the conditions existing during the month of July, 1914.

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

Restricting Shooting Season for Paradise Duck.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that paradise duck (Casarca variegata), a bird indigenous to the said Dominion of New Zealand, may be taken or killed in the Otago Acclimatization District and in the Southland Acclimatization District for a period of one month from the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, to the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, both days inclusive:

Provided that the number of the said paradise duck which may be taken or killed in the said acclimatization districts by any one person in any one day during the said period shall not exceed twenty birds.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Changing the Purpose of Portion of a Gravel Reserve in Awakino North Survey District, Auckland Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of a reserve heretofore duly set apart for gravel purposes, being a reserve within Class I of the Second Schedule of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and such land is not vested in trust in any society, body corporate, or trustees:

And whereas it is expedient that such land should be appropriated as a site for a public school, being a reserve within Class III of the aforesaid Act:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the eleventh section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, do by this notification declare that the said land shall, from and after the thirty-first day of