JULY 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2359

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, 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 Marlborough 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 electric lines for power, lighting, heating, or other uses within the Marlborough Electric-power District, as defined by Proclamation dated the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 75, of the twenty-fifth day of October, 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. 66022, 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. The generating voltage shall be approximately 6,600 volts between the phases.

The transmission voltage shall be 33,000 and the primary distribution voltages 11,000 or 6,600 volts respectively between phases. The secondary distribution voltage shall be approximately 400 volts between phases and 230 volts between any phase and neutral.

2. 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 22nd day of June, 1925. 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 cease and determine; but such expiration or determination shall not relieve the licensee of any liability theretofore incurred under this license.

3. CHARGES FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY.

The charges for electrical energy shall not exceed 1s. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

(P.W. 26/1086.)

Kuku Drainage District, County of Horowhenua, constituted.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of July, 1926.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the third section of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, a majority of the ratepayers in a certain area of land situated within the County of Horowhenua, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, praying that the said area be constituted a drainage district under the provisions of the said Act:

And whereas a Commission appointed under the second section of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1922, held inquiries and recommended certain alterations of the said area:

And whereas it is deemed expedient to constitute the said drainage district in the manner recommended by the said Commission:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of land described in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of Part I of the said Act, and to be called by the name of the “Kuku Drainage District”; and also, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fourth section of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the Board of Trustees of the said district shall consist of five persons to be elected as members of the said Board, and under and in accordance with the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF KUKU DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded by a line commencing at the confluence of the Ohau River and the Kuku Stream; thence south-easterly generally along a line parallel to and distant 100 links from the right bank of the Kuku Stream to the western boundary of Lot 4 on plan 5295, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Wellington; thence north-easterly and south-easterly along the north-western and north-eastern boundaries of the said Lot 4 to the north-western boundary of Lot 2 on plan 5295 aforesaid; thence north-easterly along the north-western boundaries of Lots 2 and 1, plan 5295 aforesaid, to the north-western corner of the last-mentioned lot; thence south-easterly along the north-eastern boundary of the said Lot 1 and its production across a public road to the north-western boundary of Section 5s, Kuku Settlement; thence north-easterly and south-easterly along the north-western and north-eastern boundaries of Section 5s, Kuku Settlement, and the north-eastern boundary of Lot 1 on plan 2648, deposited as aforesaid, to a point distant 1000 links from the north-eastern corner of the said Section 5s; thence south-westerly along a line parallel to and distant 1000 links from the south-eastern boundary of the said Section 5s, to the northern boundary of Section 2s, Kuku Settlement; thence south-easterly along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 2s and 1s, Kuku Settlement, and Lot 7 on plan 2648 deposited as aforesaid, to the north-eastern corner of the said Lot 7; thence south-westerly along the eastern boundary of Lot 7 aforesaid to Ohau West Road, and across that road to the north-eastern corner of Subdivision 18B 2, Section 26, Ohau No. 3 Block; thence south-westerly along the eastern boundary of that subdivision for a distance of 500 links; thence westerly along a line parallel to and distant 500 links from the Ohau West Road to the western boundary of Subdivision 18A 1, Section 26, Ohau No. 3 Block; thence southerly along that boundary to the northern boundary of Subdivision 22B, Section 26 Ohau No. 3 Block; thence south-easterly along the northern boundary of that subdivision to its north-eastern corner; thence south-westerly along the eastern boundary of that aforesaid Subdivision 22B to its south-eastern corner; thence north-westerly along the south-western boundary of Subdivision 22B aforesaid to a point distant 3000 links from the western boundary of Manawatu-Kukutauaki 4E 2A No. 4 Block; thence south-westerly along a line parallel to the eastern boundary of Manawatu-Kukutauaki 4E 2A No. 4 Block, a distance of 1500 links; thence north-westerly along a line parallel to the northern boundary of the aforesaid 4E 2A No. 4 Block to its intersection with the western boundary of Manawatu-Kukutauaki 4E 2B No. 2 Block; thence along a