1846

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 55

CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.

5. The license when issued shall be in such form and shall contain such conditions and provisions as the Governor-General in Council thinks fit, including conditions and provisions for the following purposes:-

(a.) A limitation as to time within which the powers conferred by the license shall be exercised, and a limitation as to the time within which the complete initial plant as authorized shall be installed.

(b.) Power for inspection by the Minister and such officers as he appoints for that purpose, both during and after construction of all works, so as to ensure the provisions of the license being given due effect to, and the law as regards safety of life and property being duly observed.

(c.) Power to the Governor-General in Council to impose fines, or suspend or cancel the license, for breach of any of its conditions.

(d.) A statement of the time during which the license is to be current, and whether or not any renewal of the same can be obtained, and on what terms.

(e.) A yearly rental charge of ls. per kilowatt of maximum output generated during each and every year in the case of local authorities or Electric-power Boards, with a minimum charge of £10 per year; and in all other cases at the rate of 4s. per kilowatt of maximum output generated during each and every year, with a minimum charge of 5s. per year. The output shall be measured by means of a wattmeter when available, otherwise it shall be determined on the maximum capacity of the generator or generators installed.

(f.) A schedule of maximum charges that may be made by the licensee for the sale or supply of electricity.

(g.) Power to the Governor-General in Council to forfeit, without payment of any compensation, any water delivered at the headworks or dam in excess of the quantity which the turbines installed are capable of utilizing.

(h.) Requiring the licensee to submit for the Minister's approval, before the works are commenced, detail plans of the dam, pipe-line, and headworks.

(i.) For all or any of the purposes prescribed by the Regulations under section 2 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, published in Gazette No. 73, of 12th October, 1922.

6. Before the issue of a license the licensee shall deposit with the Public Trustee a sum of £1 per kilowatt for every kilowatt authorized to be used, but not exceeding a maximum deposit of £500. Such deposit shall be retained by the Public Trustee, without payment of interest, until the licensee produces a certificate under the hand of an officer appointed by the Minister to the effect that the licensee has duly and properly constructed and installed on the premises the whole of the hydraulic and electrical installations authorized by the license.

7. In order to standardize the conditions as far as possible throughout the Dominion, it is suggested that when convenient the three-phase four-wire system be adopted for distribution at a frequency of 50 cycles per second, and a voltage of 230 between each phase and a neutral for lighting purposes and small motors, and 400 volts between phases for supply to large motors.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Notice to Mariners.-No. 31 of 1923.

WESTPORT HARBOUR.-DREDGER AT WORK.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 3rd July, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that during daytime the dredger "Mawhera" will be operating off the lower end of the Crane Wharf, and will work in a direction up stream. Between sunset and sunrise the dredger will be moored alongside the Crane Wharf, and will exhibit, from her outside quarter and bow respectively, one all-round white light.

Vessels must not pass between the dredger and the wharves unless instructed to do so by the Harbourmaster.

Care should be taken to avoid fouling the dredger moorings, and vessels at all times when passing the dredger must do so at reduced speed.

Charts, &c., affected.--Plan of Westport Harbour on Admiralty Chart 2591 ; "New Zealand Pilot," ninth edition, 1919, page 383 ; "New Zealand Nautical Almanac," 1923, page 283, and plan facing page 284.

A. D. PARK, Secretary.

Notice to Mariners.-No. 32 of 1923.

OTAGO HARBOUR.-MONUMENT ERECTED.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 3rd July, 1923.

INFORMATION has been received that a grey stone monument to the memory of fallen soldiers has been erected at Burns Hill, Otago Peninsula, in latitude 45° 53' south, longitude 170° 35' east (approx.).

The monument, which is not to be used for navigational purposes, may in clear weather be seen by vessels off Taiaroa Heads for a distance of 5 miles.

Charts, &c., affected.--Admiralty Chart No. 2411 ; "New Zealand Pilot," ninth edition, 1919, page 360 ; "New Zealand Nautical Almanac," 1923, page 266, and plan facing page 270.

A. D. PARK, Secretary.

CROWN LANDS NOTICE.

Lands in the Southland Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd July, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by resolution of the Southland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 20, Merrivale No. 1 Settlement, Block XI, Waiau Survey District. Tenure : R.L./L.S. Lease No. 85. Former lessee : James Farquharson. Reason for forfeiture : Arrears of rent and abandonment of section.

Section 7, Block III, Mid. Wakatipu Survey District. Tenure: L.I.P. Lease No. 82. Former lessee : District Public Trustee, administrator in estate of Nicholas Paul Baltazar Von Tunzelmann. Reason for forfeiture : At request of District Public Trustee.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Portion of a Provisional State Forest in Otago Land District for Lease by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Invercargill, 2nd July, 1923.

WRITTEN tenders will be received at this office up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Friday, the 17th of August, 1923, for a grazing lease over the undermentioned land in terms of the Forests Act, 1921-22.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.-SOUTHLAND FOREST- CONSERVATION REGION.

ALL the open land, containing about 750 acres, in the Upper Dart Valley, Forbes, and Humboldt Survey Districts, locally known as Daley's, Quinn's, and Cattle Flat portion of Provisional State Forest No. 29.

Term, five years from 1st September, 1923 ; minimum annual rental, £10.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The land will be used for grazing purposes only.

2. An annual rental as stated above will be payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st day of March and September in each year.

3. Not more than fifty head of cattle may be grazed on the land at the same time.

4. The lessee shall keep down noxious weeds and destroy rabbits to the satisfaction of the Conservator of Forests.

5. No compensation shall be paid for any improvements which may be effected on the land.

6. The lessee shall take every precaution to prevent fires spreading on the land or into the adjoining bush.

7. The lease shall be liable to forfeiture if the lessee fails to fulfil any of the conditions thereof within thirty days after the date on which the same ought to have been fulfilled.

Each tender must be accompanied by a deposit of a half-year's rent at the rate offered, plus £1 1s. lease fee, and be enclosed in an envelope addressed to the undersigned, and endorsed on the outside "Tender for lease."

D. MACPHERSON, Conservator of Forests.