698
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 27

the position of the said works being indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 50424 hereinbefore referred to.
(a.) Headworks consisting of a dam and necessary intake.
(b.) Race leading from such dam to the power-house herein-after referred to.
(c.) A power-house with all necessary equipment, including water-turbines, generators, transformers, lightning-arresters, switchboards, switches, exciters, and other appliances for generating electricity.

5. ROUTE OF ELECTRIC LINES AUTHORIZED.
   All that route commencing at the power-house situated in Section 4, Block XVI, Lyell Survey District, on the right bank of the Buller River, and proceeding thence across a public road to the house and outbuildings on the said Section 4, as shown by means of a green line on the plan marked P.W.D. 50424 hereinbefore referred to.

6. INSPECTION OF WORKS.
   The Inspecting Engineer, both during and after the construction of the works, shall have free access to and liberty at any time to inspect the same so as to ensure that the provisions of this license are given due effect to.

7. MAINTENANCE OF WORKS.
   After the said works have been completed, the licensee shall maintain the same in proper working-order during the continuance of this license.

8. RIGHT TO ENTER LANDS, ETC.
   The licensee shall have the right at any time or times during the continuance of this license, with the consent of the Minister, to enter upon any road or other land, whether vested in or occupied by the Crown or any other person or body corporate, and there to construct, erect, lay down, maintain, renew or repair all such transmission-lines, poles, or other things as are required for the transmission of electricity between the generating-stations and any of the substations to which this license applies.

9. POWER TO TAKE LAND.
   The licensee is hereby empowered to take, under the Public Works Act, 1908, as for a public work such land as may, in the opinion of the Governor-General, be necessary to enable the licensee to construct and maintain the various works authorized by this license.

10. 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.

11. RENTAL.
    The licensee shall, in respect of this license, pay to the Public Works Engineer for the district, or otherwise as the Minister may from time to time require, a rental at the rate of 4s. per annum per kilowatt of maximum output as recorded by the watt-meter to be installed by the licensee at the power-house mentioned in clause 4 (c) hereof; payment to be made yearly on the 31st day of March of each year, commencing from the date the electrical power is first supplied.

For the purposes of this clause “maximum output” means twice the number of units generated in the half-hour during which the output is the maximum for the year. The said period shall be recorded at the end of each half-hour, commencing from noon on each day.

12. GRANTING OF OTHER WATER-RIGHTS.
    Nothing herein shall prevent the Governor-General in Council from granting to any person or body corporate other than the licensee a license to take water from any portion of the said creek, except at the place where the licensee is by this license empowered to take it; provided that no such license shall so operate as to reduce the natural fall between the headworks and tail-water, or the volume of the water which the licensee is by this license authorized to take from the said creek.

13. DEFAULT.
    If the licensee fails or neglects to observe any of the conditions or obligations imposed by this license, then and in any such case the provisions of clauses 50 and 51 of the regulations shall apply to the breach of any such condition or obligation.

14. VARIATION IN CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.
    The terms and conditions of this license may at any time or from time to time, at the request or with the consent in writing of the licensee, be altered by the Governor-General by Order in Council.

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-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. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.
    The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (a) (1) of clause 3 of the regulations.
    The generating voltage shall be approximately 250 volts between the terminals.

17. DATUM TEMPERATURE.
    For the purposes of calculating stresses as provided in clause 15 of the regulations, the datum temperature shall be taken as 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

18. EXTENSIONS.
    Notwithstanding anything contained in the regulations incorporated herein, no extensions or lines other than those along the route hereinbefore described shall be deemed to be authorized by this license.

19. BED OF CREEK NOT LEASED.
    Nothing herein shall be held to constitute a lease from the Crown of the bed of the said creek, nor shall the provisions of Part IX of the Property Law Act, 1908, apply to this license.

20. CONTRACT BETWEEN LICENSEE AND CROWN.
    This license shall be deemed to constitute a contract as between the licensee and His Majesty the King, and may be enforced as a contract by and against His said Majesty or the licensee accordingly.

21. REQUIREMENTS OF MURCHISON COUNTY COUNCIL.
    Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the licensee shall not be entitled to erect, maintain, or use any electric lines within the Murchison 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 Murchison County Council.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

License authorizing Wairakei Limited to use Water from the Waikato River for the Purpose of generating Electricity and to erect Electric Lines at Wairakei.

JEILICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of March, 1921.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1908, and the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, 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 hereby grant to Wairakei Limited (hereinafter, with its successors and assigns, referred to as “the licensee”)—subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto and to the regulations dated the twenty-second day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, or any regulations hereafter made in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the regulations”), and which regulations shall be deemed to be incorporated herein—a license to take and use from the Waikato River, in the Land District of Auckland (hereinafter referred to as the “said river”), for the purposes hereinafter set forth, a stream of water (hereinafter referred to as “the said water”) not exceeding twenty cubic feet per second at any one time; and also to erect and maintain electric lines for power, lighting, heating, or other uses as described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. PLANS.
   The licensee shall, before the works hereby authorized are commenced, forward for the approval of the Minister of Public Works (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”)—
   (a.) Full detailed drawings and specifications of the diverting weir and dam.