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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

14. Alteration of License.

The terms and conditions of this license may at any time or from time to time, at the request or with the consent in writing of the licensee, be altered by the Governor-General by Order in Council.

15. Purchase of Electrical Energy.

Notwithstanding anything contained in this license or in the licenses hereby revoked, the licensee is hereby authorized to use electrical energy purchased from the Wanganui-Rangitikei Electric-power Board in lieu of or in addition to the electrical energy generated by the licensee’s hydro-electric works.

16. Alterations to Works.

In the event of the licensee at any time desiring to make alterations to the work involving a departure from the type of construction shown on the approved plans it shall submit for the Minister’s approval plans showing such type of construction as it is proposed to adopt, and with such approval the alterations may be carried out.

17. Inspection of Works.

The Inspecting Engineer, both during and after the construction of the works, shall have free access to and liberty at any time to inspect the same so as to ensure that the provisions of this license are given due effect to.

18. Rental.

The licensee shall, in respect of its license, pay to the Receiver of Land Revenue at Wellington, or otherwise as the Minister may from time to time require, a fee of one peppercorn per annum if demanded.

19. 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.

20. Requirements of the Rangitikei County Council.

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

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. Existing Water-rights.

Notwithstanding anything in this license, all the rights acquired by the licensee in respect to the use of water for the purpose of generating electrical energy under the Order in Council dated the 29th day of April, 1913, shall continue in force as if such Order in Council had not been revoked.

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

Order in Council regulating the Use of Nets for taking Fish in certain Waters.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 30th day of August, 1926.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by Orders in Council dated on the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and the sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 80, of the fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and No. 59, of the sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, respectively, regulations were made prohibiting the use of seine nets for taking fish within the Frith of Thames and within Manukau Harbour:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke the said regulations, and to make other regulations:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section five of the Fisheries Act, 1908, 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 revoke the hereinbefore-recited regulations, and doth hereby make the following regulations.

REGULATIONS.

1. No person shall use a Danish-seine net or a purse-seine net of any description whatever for taking fish within any of the areas more particularly described in the First Schedule hereto.

2. During the period from midnight of the fifteenth day of November in any year until midnight of the thirty-first day of January following no person shall use a trawl net, Danish-seine net, purse-seine net, or any other net of whatsoever description for taking fish within the area more particularly described in the Second Schedule hereto:

Provided that this regulation shall not apply to set nets, used in taking flounders or soles only within the said area.

3. It shall be unlawful to use or convey a Danish-seine net or a purse-seine net of any description whatever on any vessel while such vessel is engaged in trawling.

4. The mesh in the last six yards of the cod-end of every Danish-seine net shall measure, when prepared for use, not less than four and a half inches.

5. Any person committing a breach of any of the above regulations is liable to a fine of fifty pounds.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DANISH-SEINE OR PURSE-SEINE NETTING PROHIBITED AREAS.

(a.) All that area of tidal land and tidal water bounded as follows: Commencing at a point at high-water mark of ordinary spring tides on the northern extremity of Milford Beach; thence by a straight line passing through Rangitoto Beacon to a point at high-water mark on the shore of Rangitoto Island; thence by high-water mark along the western and southern shores of Rangitoto Island and the western shore of Motutapu Island to Emu Point; thence by a straight line to the northern extreme of the eastern head at the entrance of Tamaki River; thence by high-water mark generally to the commencing-point.

(b.) All that area of tidal land and tidal water of the Frith of Thames inside a straight line drawn from Deadman Point to the light known as “Ponui Passage Lighthouse” and a straight line from the said light to Raukura Point.

(c.) All that area of tidal land and tidal water of Manukau Harbour inside a straight line drawn from the signal staff on the South Head to the southern extreme of Paratutai Island.

(d.) All that area of tidal land and tidal water of Coromandel Harbour inside a straight line drawn from Tawhiti Point, on the north side of the entrance, to Esk Point, on the south side and inside the Little Passage.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

AREA WITHIN WHICH NETTING PROHIBITED BETWEEN MIDNIGHT FROM 15TH NOVEMBER IN ANY YEAR UNTIL MIDNIGHT OF 31ST JANUARY FOLLOWING.

All the tidal land and tidal waters of Hauraki Gulf bounded as follows: Commencing at a point at high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on Tawharanui Point, Takatau (or Takatu) Peninsula; thence by a straight line to Kauri Point on Waiheke Island; thence by high-water mark along the north-western and northern shores of Waiheke Island to the North Head of Maiteatea (or Mateatea) Bay; thence by a