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(b.) Drawings showing how and in what manner the water
diverted is to be returned to the said river.
(c.) Contour-plan showing difference in level of water due
to the construction of the headworks.

2. UTILIZATION OF THE WATER.
   The said water shall be used solely for the purpose of
   generating electricity, and shall be returned to the said
   river at or near the power-house.

3. LOCATION OF HEADWORKS.
   The said water shall be taken from the said river at the
   headworks, situated about 10 chains above the Huka Falls,
   in Block XIV, Tatua Survey District, East Taupo County,
   at a point indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 50205,
   deposited in the office of the Minister at Wellington, in the
   Land District of Wellington.

4. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORKS.
   The licensee is hereby authorized to construct, maintain,
   and use the following works for the purposes of this license ;
   the position of the said works being indicated on the plan
   marked P.W.D. 50205 hereinbefore referred to:
   (a.) Headworks consisting of a dam and necessary intake.
   (b.) Fluming, 200 yards in length, leading from such dam
   to the power-house hereinafter 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.
   (d.) Transmission or other lines over the route shown by
   means of a green-line on the said plan.

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

6. 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.

7. 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 elec-
   tricity between the generating-stations and any of the sub-
   stations to which this license applies.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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, com-
mencing from noon on each day.

11. 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 river, except at the place where the licensee is
    by this licensee 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 river.

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12. DEFAULT.
    If the licensee fails or neglects to observe any of the con-
    ditions 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.
    The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (c)
    of clause 3 of the regulations.
    The generating voltage shall be approximately 440 volts
    between the terminals.

16. 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.

17. 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.

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

19. 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.

20. TIME FOR SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION OF WORKS.
    The licensee shall substantially complete the works hereby
    authorized within a period of one year from the date of this
    license, or within such further time as the Minister may allow
    in the event of the work being delayed by strikes, lockouts,
    breakdowns, or other unavoidable causes not due to any
    neglect by the licensee.

21. REVOCATION.
    Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the
    Governor-General may by Order in Council revoke this license,
    without payment of compensation, at any time after giving
    the licensee two years' notice in writing of the intention so
    to revoke this license.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Portions of Smith Road, in the Taranaki County, exempted
from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act,
1908, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

JELLICOE, 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 by the
Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in any-
wise 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 approve of the following resolu-
tion passed by the Taranaki County Council on the fourth
day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-
viz., "That the Taranaki County Council, having control of
that portion of the road called Smith's Road running from
the boundary of the Borough of New Plymouth to the old
Avenue Road, by resolution declares that the provisions of
section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act,