JULY 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1845

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Elections to administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth, the gross property in each case being estimated not to exceed £400 in value.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 3rd July, 1923. J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Appointing the Time and Place for the First Meeting of the Hobson Electric-power Board.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public Works, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 19th day of July, 1923, at 7.30 o’clock p.m., as the time, and the Hobson County Chambers, Dargaville, as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Hobson Electric-power Board.

Dated at Wellington this 30th day of June, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

The Public Works Amendment Act, 1908, Section 5.—License to use Water for the Purpose of generating Electricity.

Office of the Minister of Public Works,
Wellington, 30th June, 1923.

THE Minister of Public Works hereby notifies, for public information, that the following are the requirements and provisions subject to which he will be prepared to advise His Excellency the Governor-General in Council to entertain applications for licenses under section 5 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1908.

REGULATIONS.

APPLICATIONS.

1. EVERY application for a license to use water for power purposes, under section 5 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1908, shall be made in writing to the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, and the applicant shall, when required, supply the Minister with the following particulars:—
   (1.) In the case of a company—
   (a.) Evidence to the satisfaction of the Minister that the company is duly incorporated and registered.
   (b.) A copy of the company’s memorandum of association and rules.
   (2.) In every case—
   (c.) A lithograph or sketch-plan, to a suitable scale, showing the position of the headworks, the proposed water-race or pipe-line, or both, the position of the generating-station and the tail-race, and the approximate boundaries of the area of land, if any, to be flooded.
   (d.) A statement of the quantity of water to be taken, and the difference in level between the water and the headworks and in the tail-race; a description of the electrical system to be adopted—that is to say, whether direct current or alternating current, and if the latter the number of phases and periodicity, and in either case the pressure of generation, transmission, and supply.
   (e.) A statement of the extent of the electric power proposed to be developed in the initial installation, and to be provided for in future extensions, and the use intended to be made of it.
   (f.) A plan in triplicate to a suitable scale, but in any case not less than 1 in. to the mile, showing the area of supply, the site of the power-house and substations, the routes proposed for the initial transmission-lines, indicating all roads, railways, rivers, post and telegraph lines, and other electric lines, and also private and Crown lands proposed to be crossed or traversed.
   (g.) A statement of the time to elapse between the date of the license and the complete initial installation and construction of all the hydraulic and electrical plant and works specified in the application.
   (h.) Any further or other information which the Minister may require.

2. (a.) In all cases where the applicant is not a local authority, or if a local authority desires to operate beyond its own boundaries, the consent in writing of the local authority concerned must be obtained and forwarded with the application.
   (b.) In cases where an Electric-power Board has been established under the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, the written consent of the Power Board must be obtained and forwarded with the application if it is proposed to sell electricity to consumers other than the licensee.

3. The Minister may require all or any of the aforesaid particulars to be verified on oath, and the application may be refused if, in his opinion, any of the particulars are unsatisfactory, or the quantity of water applied for is excessive or the proposed use is improper.

4. If the Minister thinks the application should be further considered, he shall appoint a commission of inquiry for this purpose, whereupon the following provisions shall apply:—
   (a.) The Commissioner shall require a minute of the application to be advertised, at the cost of the applicant, in such form and in such newspaper as he thinks fit, having regard to the nature and extent of the works, the route proposed for transmission, and the interests likely to be affected.
   (b.) The minute shall call on all persons having any objection to the proposed works to give notice thereof to the Commissioner, and also to serve a copy thereof on the applicant, within such time before the day of hearing as the Commissioner prescribes.

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