Nov. 26.
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 stream, except at the place where the licensee is by this license 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 stream.

12. 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.

13. LICENSEE ONLY TO USE ELECTRICAL ENERGY.
    The licensee shall not sell electrical energy generated in pursuance of this license to any person or persons or allow such energy to be used by any person or persons other than the licensee.

14. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.
    The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (a) (1) of clause 2 of the regulations. The generating voltage shall be approximately 230 volts between the terminals.

15. 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.

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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. REQUIREMENTS OF TAUPO ROAD BOARD.
    Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the licensee shall not be entitled to erect, maintain, or use any electric lines within the Taupo Road District, except subject to such conditions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this license and the regulations relating thereto, or any variation of this license or the regulations, or new regulations which may take the place of these regulations, as may from time to time be agreed upon between the licensee and the Taupo Road Board.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

License authorizing the Waitaki Electric-power Board to use Electric Lines within the Waitaki Electric-power District and Outer Area of such District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of November, 1925.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, the Public Works Amendment Acts, 1908 and 1911, and of all other powers in

anywise 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—subject to the conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto, and to the regulations made under section two of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, and dated the ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty - two, 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 Waitaki Electric-power Board duly constituted under the provisions of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918 (hereinafter with its successors and assigns referred to as “the licensee”), to use water from the Oamaru Borough Council's water-supply works for the purpose of generating electricity by means of the works purchased from the said Council in pursuance of the powers conferred by an Order in Council and dated eleventh April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and to use electric lines for power, lighting, heating, or other uses within the Waitaki Electric-power District and outer area of such district, as defined by Proclamation dated the seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 62, of the ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, such electric lines at present proposed to be used being indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 61990, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

SCHEDULE.

1. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.
   THE system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (e) of clause 2 of the regulations.
   Electrical energy shall be generated by means of the works purchased from the Oamaru Borough Council and the oil-engine set to be erected by the Power Board. When electrical energy is available from the Public Works Department's substation near Oamaru the whole or portion of the electrical energy used by the licensee shall be received in bulk from the Public Works Department's substation, at a pressure of approximately 11,000 volts.
   The transmission voltage shall be approximately 11,000 volts between phases. The primary distribution voltage shall be approximately 6,600 volts between phases and 3,300 volts between phases. The secondary distribution voltage shall be approximately 400 volts between phases and 230 volts between any phase and neutral.

2. MAINTENANCE OF WORKS.
   The licensee shall maintain the works used under this license in proper working-order during the continuance of such license.

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. 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.

4. CHARGES FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY.
   The charges for electrical energy shall not exceed ls. per unit for lighting purposes, and 6d. per unit for motor-power, heating, or cooking purposes; provided that “lighting purposes” shall include the operation of motor generators for lighting purposes; and provided further that if accounts are 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 purpose shall be held to be a supply in respect of which the consumer shall guarantee to pay not less than £180 per year.

5. ROUTES RESERVED FOR GOVERNMENT LINES.
   The licensee shall not, without the consent in writing of the Minister of Public Works, erect any electric lines along the routes of the Government main trunk transmission-lines.

6. 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