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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 loans set out in column B therein:

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 raising of the loans hereinafter mentioned by the several local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto, provided that the rate of interest at which the loans or any of them are to be raised shall in no case produce to the lender a return exceeding five and one-quarter pounds per centum per annum; and it is hereby declared that 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.

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SCHEDULE.

Column B.
£
Awakino County Council .. .. .. 700
Kirikiriroa Road Board .. .. .. 4,000
Egmont County Council .. .. .. 145
Raetihi Town Board .. .. .. 1,000
Wairoa Harbour Board .. .. .. 7,000

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

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Declaring Portion of Road in Block I, Waimea Survey District, to be a Government Road.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighth day of January, 1919.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise 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 order and declare that the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a Government road

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the portion of road declared to be a Government road: 1 acre 1 rood 38·6 perches.

Adjoining or passing through Section 108, Block I, Waimea Survey District (Nelson R.D.).

In the Nelson Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 44483, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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

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License authorizing George C. Thomson, Farmer, of North Taieri, to lay or erect an Electric Line at Wairongoa, North Taieri.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighth day of January, 1919.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two of the Public Works Amendment 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 George C. Thomson, farmer, of North Taieri (hereinafter referred to as “the licensee”), desires to erect an electric line along the route defined in the Schedule hereto and hereinafter called “the said electric line,” 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 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, subject to the conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto and to the regulations (except clause seventeen thereof, which is replaced by clause four of the Schedule hereto, to which references in the regulations to clause seventeen shall apply) made under section 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 lay, put up, place, and maintain an electric line for lighting, power, and heating purposes along the route described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

1. THE ROUTE OF THE ELECTRIC LINE AUTHORIZED.

ALL that route commencing at the generating plant situated on Section 52, Irregular Block, East Taieri Survey District, and running across part of the said Section 52, Half-way Bush, to Muir’s Road, and part Section 51, Irregular Block, East Taieri Survey District, to stables situated on the said Section 51. As the said route is more particularly delineated by means of a red line on the plan marked P.W.D. 45123, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington.

2. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (a) (1) of clause 2 of the regulations.

The generating voltage shall be approximately 32 volts between the terminals.

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 12 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. 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 vulcanized 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 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