APRIL 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1051

Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become Government roads.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the portions of road declared to be Government roads:—

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
4 0 14 Allotment 70, Ararimu Parish, 49H, Riverhead Homestead Settlement.
2 2 30 Allotments 70, S.E. 69, Ararimu Parish, 42H, Riverhead Homestead Settlement.

Situated in Block I, Waitemata Survey District. (S.O. 21809.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 55599, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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

The Eastern Side of Portion of Ridge Lane, in the Borough of New Plymouth, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 9th day of April, 1923.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, 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 resolution passed by the New Plymouth Borough Council on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, viz.:—

“That the New Plymouth Borough Council, being the local authority having control of the street hereinafter mentioned, hereby resolves and declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen, subsection one, of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to that portion of the eastern side of Ridge Lane to which part Subdivision A of Q, New Plymouth (containing 32·6 perches), has frontage ”;

such portion of street being described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of street situated in the Taranaki Land District, Borough of New Plymouth, known as Ridge Lane, fronting part Subdivision A of Q, Town of New Plymouth. As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56566, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Fixing Maximum Price payable in respect of the Half Cost of erecting certain Kinds of Fences.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 9th day of April, 1923.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by section forty-one of the Fencing Act, 1908, as amended by section five of the Fencing Amendment Act, 1922 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), that the maximum price payable under that Act in respect of the half cost of erecting any non-rabbit-proof fence shall be such sum as may from time to time be fixed by the Governor-General by Order in Council:

And whereas it is desirable to make such Order in Council fixing the maximum price payable in respect of the half cost of erecting certain kinds of fences mentioned in the Second Schedule to the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority 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 fix as the maximum amount payable under the said Act, in respect of the half cost of erecting a fence of the kind described in clause one of Part I of the Second Schedule to the said Act, the sum of one hundred and forty shillings per chain; of the kind described in clause two of Part I of the said Second Schedule, the sum of eighty-five shillings per chain; of the kind described in clause three of Part I of the said Second Schedule, the sum of ninety shillings per chain; of the kind described in clause four of Part I of the said Second Schedule, the sum of forty shillings per chain; of the kind described in clause five of Part I of the said Second Schedule, the sum of thirty shillings per chain; exclusive of half the reasonable and proper cost of felling and clearing bush along the line of such fence.

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

License authorizing the Waipukurau Borough Council to erect Electric Lines in the Borough of Waipukurau and Portion of the Waipukurau County.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 9th day of April, 1923.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by 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—subject to the conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto, and to the regulations made under section two of the aforesaid Act, and dated the ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twelfth day of the same month, or any regulations hereafter made in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor (and hereinafter collectively referred to as “the regulations”), and which regulations shall be deemed to be incorporated herein—hereby authorize the Waipukurau Borough Council (hereinafter referred to as “the licensee”), to erect and maintain electric lines for lighting, power, and heating purposes within the area of supply hereinafter described, such electric lines at present proposed to be erected being indicated by means of yellow and green lines on the plan marked P.W.D. 55438, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

SCHEDULE.

1. AREA OF SUPPLY.

THE area of supply comprises the Borough of Waipukurau as at present constituted and portion of the Waipukurau County. As the said area is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 55769 deposited as hereinbefore referred to, and thereon bordered red.

2. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

The system of supply shall be as described in paragraphs (c) and (e) of clause 2 of the regulations. The generating voltage shall be approximately 420 volts, and 3,300 volts between the terminals, and 3,300 volts for distribution.

3. 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; provided that the Board of the Central Hawke’s Bay Electric-power District, an electric-power district duly constituted under the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, and including the area of supply hereinbefore referred to, shall have the right, at any time during the currency of this license, to purchase and take over the licensee’s installation in the said area of supply, at a valuation to be agreed upon between the said Board and the licensee, and failing such agreement, at a valuation to be fixed by a single arbitrator to be appointed pursuant to the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1908, and thereupon the Governor-General may by Order in Council