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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890 (Imperial), and further in pursuance of the Treaties of Peace Act, 1919, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Samoan Crown Estates Amendment Order, 1925, and shall be read with and form part of the Samoan Crown Estates Order, 1920.

2. Any moneys for the time being standing to the credit of the Samoan Crown Estates Account, and not immediately required for other purposes, may be invested in any securities in which balances of the Public Account of New Zealand may for the time being be lawfully invested under section thirty-eight of the Public Revenues Act, 1910, or under section six of the New Zealand Loans Act, 1908.

3. The provisions of sections ninety-four and ninety-five of the Public Revenues Act, 1910, shall apply to any such investment.

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

License authorizing John Thompson, Senior, and John Thompson, Junior, to erect Electric Lines in Lake County.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th day of December, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES 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 John Thompson, of Queenstown, boardinghouse-keeper, and John Thompson, junior, of the same place, mechanic (hereinafter referred to as “the licensees”), to erect and maintain electric lines along the route described in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of supplying power to the licensees’ dredge on the Lower Shotover River in the Otago Land District.

SCHEDULE.

1. ROUTE OF ELECTRIC LINES.

The route commencing at the licensees’ generating station situated at Wye Creek in Run 331, Block V, Coneburn Survey District, Otago Land District, and proceeding thence generally in a northerly direction along portion of the Kingston Staircase Track and a public road, across the Kawarau River and along a public road to the licensees’ substation situated on the right bank of the Lower Shotover River, in Block II, Shotover Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 63317, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured yellow.

2. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

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

The generating and transmission voltage shall be approximately 6,600 volts between phases. The distribution voltage shall be approximately 400 volts between phases, and 230 volts between any phase and neutral.

3. DURATION OF LICENSE.

This license shall, unless sooner determined in accordance with the provisions hereinafter expressed, continue in force for a period of ten 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 licensees of any liability theretofore incurred under this license.

4. 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.

5. TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT’S LINES.

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

6. REQUIREMENTS OF LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the licensees shall not be entitled to erect, maintain, or use any electric lines within the Lake County, 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 licensees and the Lake County Council.

7. METALLICING QUEENSTOWN—KINGSTON AND QUEENSTOWN—SHOTOVER CIRCUITS.

The licensees shall pay to the Minister of Telegraphs the sum of £250 towards the cost of metallicing telephone-circuits before using the electric lines constructed under the license.

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

Vesting a Reserve in the Hunterville Town Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th day of December, 1925

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart for a site for public buildings: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Hunterville Town Board:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section four of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Hunterville Town Board, in trust, for a site for public buildings.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 14·7 perches, more or less, being Section 3, Town of Hunterville. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan numbered 16/7 deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon coloured red.

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