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consent of the Minister obtained and before the work is
commenced, 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 electric lines
erected with the consent of the Minister shall be subject to
the following 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-pressure or extra-
high-pressure lines, and shall be subject to the
regulations governing high-pressure and extra-high-
pressure lines respectively.

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

5. 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 Public
   Works Engineer at present stationed at Dunedin, and to the
   Telegraph Engineer of the District, or his deputy, at present
   stationed at Dunedin.

6. DURATION OF LICENCE.
   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.
   Recreation Reserve in Wellington Land District brought under
   Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth
day of February, 1919.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.
By virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by
the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and
Domains Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl
of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and
declare that the reserve for recreation in the Wellington
Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be and
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the same is hereby brought under the operation of and
declared to be subject to the provisions of Part II of the
said Act; and such reserve shall hereafter be known as the
Linton Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt
with as a public domain.

SCHEDULE.
All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District,
containing by admeasurement 4 acres 0 roods 20 perches,
more or less, being Section 300, Town of Linton, known as
Gladstone Square. Bounded towards the north by a public
road, 550 links; towards the east by Derby Street, 750
links; towards the south by a public road, 550 links; and
towards the west by Beaconsfield Street, 750 links: be all
the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/648, deposited in the
Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington,
and thereon bordered red.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Ohakune Fire District constituted.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day
of February, 1919.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section four of the Fire Brigades Act,
1908 (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), it is provided that the Governor-General may by Order in Council,
on the application of any Borough Council, declare the
district within the jurisdiction of such Borough Council to
be a fire district under the said Act:
And whereas an application has been made by the Ohakune Borough Council in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, and it appears expedient to grant the said application:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise
of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the
said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby
declare the Borough of Ohakune to be a fire district under
the said Act.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Authorizing Special Investment of £20,000 of the Public Trust
Office Funds.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day
of February, 1919.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid
Board (hereinafter called "the said Board"), incorporated under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act,
1909, has applied to the Public Trustee for a loan of twenty
thousand pounds:
And whereas the said Board, as security for the said loan,
has agreed to enter into a deed of covenant with the said the
Public Trustee that a contribution will be levied annually,
under the provisions of section forty-one of the said Act, for
the full amount of interest and principal payable by the said
Board to the said the Public Trustee for the year (such
security being referred to herein as "the said security"):
And whereas the said security is not one authorized by the
Public Trust Office Act, 1908:
And whereas by section ninety-one of the Public Revenues
Act, 1910, it is enacted that it shall be lawful to invest any
part of the balance of the Public Trust Office Account in any
security which shall be declared by the Governor-General by
Order in Council to be securities in which such balance may
be invested:
Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of
Liverpool, the Governor-General in and for the Dominion of
New Zealand, do hereby declare that it shall be lawful for
the Public Trustee to invest out of the balance of the Public
Trust Office Account the said sum of twenty thousand pounds.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.