2046
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

paid within fourteen days of due date the charges shall not exceed 9d. per unit for lighting purposes and 4½d. per unit for motor-power, cooking, and heating purposes.

In the case of wholesale supply the charge shall not exceed £16 per kilovolt-ampere per year plus ½d. per unit. Wholesale supply for this period shall be held to be a supply in respect of which the consumer shall guarantee to pay not less than £180 per annum.

10. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (e) of clause 2 of the regulations.

The generating voltage shall be approximately 6,600 volts between the terminals, and transformed to 33,000 volts for transmission.

11. INTERCHANGE OF SUPPLY OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY.

(a.) In the event of the Minister establishing a hydro-electric-power scheme outside the area of supply of a frequency of 50 cycles per second on the three-phase-alternating-current system, he may require the licensee to connect that system with the licensee’s electrical system in such a manner that an interchange of electrical energy between the two systems may be made from time to time and when required by either the licensee or the Minister, up to at least one-half of the total capacity of the plant installed at the licensee’s power-house.

(b.) The licensee shall erect and maintain in good order, at the expense of the licensee, the necessary transmission-lines between the licensee’s power-house and a point on the boundary of the area of supply to be determined by the Minister.

(c.) The Minister shall erect and maintain in good order, at the expense of the Minister, the necessary transmission-lines outside the area of supply for the purpose of connecting the two systems at the point last mentioned in subclause (b) hereof.

(d.) The licensee and the Minister respectively shall, on demand, and from time to time as and when required, supply to each other so much of the surplus electrical energy as is then required and is available, but not in excess of one-half of the capacity of the plant installed in the licensee’s power-house.

(e.) The price to be paid by the licensee or the Minister shall not exceed the following rates:—

Between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. daily: 1d. per unit.

Between the hours of 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. daily: ½d. per unit.

To be measured in each case at the point last mentioned in subclause (b) hereof.

(f.) For the purpose of this clause either the licensee or the Minister may have the unit measured in kilovolt-ampere hours instead of kilowatt hours.

12. CROWN NOT LIABLE TO PAY COMPENSATION.

Nothing in this license shall be held to cast upon or imply any liability upon His Majesty the King or upon the Government of New Zealand to pay compensation to any person, corporate body, or local authority by reason of the exercise by the licensee of the authority hereby granted; but the licensee shall be liable for any loss or damage which any person, corporate body, or local authority may sustain as the result of the exercise by the licensee of any of the powers granted by this license.

13. BED OF STREAM NOT LEASED.

Nothing herein shall be held to constitute a lease from the Crown of the beds of the rivers or streams shown on the aforesaid plan marked P.W.D. 56870, nor shall the provisions of Part IX of the Property Law Act, 1908, apply to this license.

14. 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.

15. LOCATION OF OVERHEAD LINES.

Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, one side of every road or street shall be left free by the licensee for telegraph-lines. Lines shall not be erected on both sides of a road or street unless the permission of the Minister of Telegraphs or the Post and Telegraph Department is first obtained in accordance with clause 5 of the regulations.

16. CONVERSION OF LINES FROM EARTH-WORKING TO METALLIC.

Notwithstanding anything herein contained the licensee shall bear the cost of converting the Post and Telegraph Department’s lines which are now erected from earth-working to metallic, if required by the Minister of Telegraphs.

17. TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT’S LINES.

The licensee shall rectify to the satisfaction of the Minister of Telegraphs any interference or disturbance caused by the erection or operation of the licensee’s system that affects the satisfactory working of telegraph lines which are the property of the Telegraph Department, and which were erected prior to the licensee’s lines.

18. 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, subject to such conditions as he may think fit to impose, 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 cables, wires, and other things as are required for the transmission of electricity between the power-house hereinbefore referred to and any place to which the licensee is authorized to transmit electricity in pursuance of this license.

19. REMOVAL OF EXISTING POST AND TELEGRAPH LINES FROM PUBLIC ROADS.

Where it is necessary to remove existing Post and Telegraph lines from public roads in consequence of the erection of electric-power lines, the obtaining of way leaves where necessary to enter upon and erect Post and Telegraph lines on private property shall be arranged by the Power Board.

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

License authorizing the Oamaru Borough Council to erect Electric Lines in Portion of the County of Waitaki.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of July, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 Oamaru Borough Council (hereinafter referred to as “the licensee”) to erect and maintain electric lines for lighting, power, and heating purposes along the routes described in the Schedule hereto,

SCHEDULE.

1. ROUTES OF ELECTRIC LINES.

ALL that route in the Otago Land District, County of Waitaki, commencing at the boundary of the licensee’s area of supply as defined by license dated the 24th day of January, 1916, and proceeding thence generally in a north-westerly direction along Weston and Ngapara Road and private road to Mr. Gilchrist’s residence in Section 1, Block II, Oamaru Survey District.

Also all that route in the said land district and county commencing at its junction with the above-described route, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly direction for a distance of fifteen chains along a new road in Section 45, Block IV, Oamaru Survey District.

Also all that route in the said land district and county commencing at the boundary of the licensee’s area of supply, and proceeding thence generally in a north-easterly direction for a distance of eleven chains along the main North Road.

Also all that route in the said land district and county commencing in Main North Road and proceeding thence generally in a north-westerly direction along a new road between Sections 23 and 26, Block I, Oamaru Survey District, to the boundary of the licensee’s area of supply.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked P.W.D. 56160 and 56159, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon shown by red lines.