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poses” 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 10d. 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.

A minimum charge of 7s. 6d. per month, including meter rent (if any), may be collected if required by the licensee, and shall be printed on the licensee’s conditions of supply.

4. CONDITIONS AS TO CHANGE-OVER.

In terms of section 129 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1925, the following provisions shall apply in the Borough of Te Kuiti in respect to the allocation of the cost of adjusting, altering, or replacing installations consequent on the change over to the system of distribution as prescribed by clause 1 of these conditions.

Consumers’ installations shall be classified as follows:—

(i.) Class A: Installations in which the wiring is found to be in accordance with the requirements of the license issued to the Te Kuiti Borough Council by Order in Council dated the 4th day of August, 1913, and published in the Gazette on the 7th day of the same month, and in accordance with the rules of the New Zealand Fire Underwriters’ Association relating to electric wiring, and only require alterations necessitated by the change in system.

(ii.) Class B: Installations in which the wiring is found to be defective under the requirements of the aforesaid license or the aforesaid rules of the New Zealand Fire Underwriters’ Association.

(iii.) Class C: Installations in which the wiring is worn out and under any conditions of supply would require to be rewired within a short period.

The cost consequent on the change-over shall be allocated between the licensee and the consumers in the following manner according to the class of the installation:—

(i.) Class A: The whole of the cost shall be paid by the licensee: Provided always that in the case of extensions and alterations which have not been authorized by the licensee the cost of alterations thereto shall be borne by the consumer.

(ii.) Class B: The cost of removing all defects shall be paid by the consumer, and the cost of alteration due to change in system shall be paid by the licensee.

(iii.) Class C: The whole cost shall be paid by the consumer.

All work required to be done pursuant to the change-over in connection with installations of classes A and B shall, unless otherwise agreed between the licensee and the consumer, be carried out by the licensee.

All moneys expended by the licensee for this purpose shall, in cases where the consumer may be liable, be a charge on the premises of the consumer and recoverable accordingly. Provision may be made for consumers who do not desire to pay in full at the time of the alterations to pay instalments due with their regular accounts for the supply of electricity.

In case of any dispute arising in respect of matters affected by this clause between the licensee and a consumer a Board of Appeal (whose decision shall be final) shall be set up to decide such dispute, which Board of Appeal shall consist of the following:—

(i.) One representative appointed by the licensee:

(ii.) One representative appointed by the consumer on whose premises the alterations are necessary:

(iii.) The Stipendiary Magistrate for the district, who shall be Chairman.

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 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. Except at crossing-places, the minimum separation between a telephone-line and poles carrying high or extra-high tension circuits shall be equal to the height of the taller pole.

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

Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the licensee shall bear the cost of converting the Railway or Post and Telegraph Department’s lines which are now erected from earth-working to metallic, if such conversion is required by the Minister of Railways or the Minister of Telegraphs owing to electrical interference arising from the licensee’s lines.

8. TELEGRAPH-LINES.

The licensee shall rectify to the satisfaction of the Minister of Railways or 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 the telegraph-lines which are the property of the Railway Department or the Telegraph Department and which were erected prior to the licensee’s lines.

9. BARE LINES.

Bare low-pressure electric lines may be erected on the poles carrying extra-high tension lines in the Borough of Te Kuiti and the Town District of Otorohanga, provided that such wires are insulated by the use of 4 ft. of rubber hose on each side of the pole at every crossing-place of telephone-wires. The rubber hose to be of one length at each crossing-place and securely fastened to the power wire and to the insulator. Any bare low-pressure electric lines already in existence in the Borough of Te Kuiti or the Town District of Otorohanga and erected in accordance with licenses previously issued may continue to be used in terms of such licenses. Any low-tension lines hereafter erected in such areas (whether or not such lines are on routes along which electric lines have already been erected) shall be erected in accordance with the regulations.

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

Prescribing the Term for which the Wairoa Borough Council may borrow the Sum of £430 authorized to be raised for completing the Laying-out and Improvement of a Sports-ground at Lambton Square.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,

CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of May, 1926.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, and its amendments, it is provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or in any rule of law, where a local authority or public body has been authorized before the passing of the said Act, or is thereafter authorized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise howsoever, whether the rate of interest or the term of years of the loan was or was not specified or determined, and such money or any part thereof has not been borrowed, the local authority may, with the precedent consent of the Minister of Finance, borrow such money, or such amount thereof as has not been borrowed, at such rate of interest, or for such term, as may be prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council:

And whereas the Wairoa Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of four thousand three hundred pounds for the provision of land and buildings and laying-out and improving a sports-ground at Lambton Square, and is now desirous of borrowing an additional sum of four hundred and thirty pounds under the authority of section eighteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of completing the undertaking:

And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by the above-recited section eleven, and it is desired that the term for which the said four hundred and thirty pounds may be borrowed be a term expiring on the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him as aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the term for which the Wairoa Borough Council may borrow the said sum of four hundred and thirty pounds shall be a term expiring on the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and the said Wairoa Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of four hundred and thirty pounds accordingly.

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