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(b) Power for inspection by the Minister and such officers as he appoints for that purpose, both during and after construction of all works, so as to ensure the provisions of the license being given due effect to and the law as regards safety of life and property being duly observed.

(c) Power to the Governor-General in Council to impose fines, or suspend or cancel the license, for breach of any of its conditions.

(d) A statement of the time during which the license is to be current, and whether or not any renewal of the same can be obtained, and on what terms.

(e) A yearly rental charge of 1s. per kilowatt of maximum output generated during each and every year in the case of local authorities or Electric-power Boards, with a minimum charge of £10 per year; and in all other cases at the rate of 4s. per kilowatt of maximum output generated during each and every year, with a minimum charge of 5s. per year. The output shall be measured by means of an integrating watthour meter with maximum demand indicator attachment, otherwise it shall be determined on the maximum capacity of the generator or generators installed.

(f) A schedule of maximum charges that may be made by the licensee for the sale or supply of electricity.

(g) Power to the Governor-General in Council to forfeit, without payment of any compensation, any water delivered at the headworks or dam in excess of the quantity which the turbines installed are capable of utilizing.

(h) Requiring the licensee to submit for the Minister’s approval, before the works are commenced, detail plans of the dam, pipe-line, and headworks.

(i) For all or any of the purposes prescribed by the regulations under section 319 of the Public Works Act, 1928, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 11th July, 1927, 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.

6. Before the issue of a license the licensee shall deposit, by payment to the credit of the Receiver-General’s Deposit Account at the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, a sum of £1 per kilowatt for every kilowatt authorized to be used, but not exceeding a maximum deposit of £500, and forward bank receipt to the Minister. Such deposit shall be retained by the Receiver-General, without payment of interest, until the licensee produces a certificate under the hand of an officer appointed by the Minister to the effect that the licensee has duly and properly constructed and installed on the premises the whole of the hydraulic and electrical installations authorized by the license.

7. In order to standardize the conditions as far as possible throughout the Dominion, it is suggested that when convenient the three-phase four-wire system be adopted for distribution at a frequency of 50 cycles per second, and a voltage of 230 between each phase and a neutral for lighting purposes and small motors, and 400 volts between phases for supply to large motors.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Public Works.

Motor-vehicles Act, 1924.—Disallowance of Part of Hutt Road Amendment By-law, 1929.

IN terms of section 25 of the Motor-vehicles Act, 1924, I, William Andrew Veitch, for the Minister of Public Works, do hereby disallow the following part of the Hutt Road Amendment By-law, 1929 :—

In clause 2 of the by-law the words “and near Koro Koro Stream crossing.”

Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of August, 1929.

W. A. VEITCH,
For Minister of Public Works.

(TT. 9/15.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XV, Rahu Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Springs Junction, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken : 13 acres 1 rood 24 perches.

Being portion of Section 13s.

Situated in Block XV, Rahu Survey District.

In the Nelson Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 76194, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 7th day of August, 1929.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/12/171/1.)

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Borough of Green Island.—(Notice No. Ag. 2842.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 6th August, 1929.

THE following special order made by the Green Island Borough Council on the 9th day of July, 1929, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT the Green Island Borough Council, in exercise of the power vested in it by the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, hereby resolves, by way of special order, that all the plants mentioned in the Second Schedule of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, be noxious weeds within the jurisdiction of the Green Island Borough Council.

Fireblight Committee Elections under the Fireblight Committee Regulations, 1928.

DECLARATION OF ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE FIREBLIGHT COMMITTEE OF THE RANGIORA COMMERCIAL FRUIT-GROWING DISTRICT.

I, JOHN GRAY, Returning Officer for the purpose of the Fireblight Committee elections under the Fireblight Committee Regulations, 1928, do hereby declare that the following candidates have been duly nominated for the election of members of the Fireblight Committee of the Rangiora District, nominations for which closed at Wellington at noon on the 1st August, 1929 :—

Banfield, Essie Kenric.
Gimblett, Egbert William.
Hasell, Charles Seaborn.
Hill, Peter Gunn Francis.
Macleod, John William.

As the number of candidates nominated does not exceed the number of members to be elected (5), I hereby declare the said Essie Kenric Banfield, Egbert William Gimblett, Charles Seaborn Hasell, Peter Gunn Francis Hill, and John William Macleod to be duly elected.

Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of August, 1929.

JOHN GRAY, Returning Officer.

Fireblight Committee Elections under the Fireblight Committee Regulations, 1928.

DECLARATION OF ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE FIREBLIGHT COMMITTEE OF THE WAIMEA COMMERCIAL FRUIT-GROWING DISTRICT.

I, JOHN GRAY, Returning Officer for the purpose of the Fireblight Committee elections under the Fireblight Committee Regulations, 1928, do hereby declare that the following candidates have been duly nominated for the election of members of the Fireblight Committee of the Waimea District, nominations for which closed at Wellington at noon on the 2nd August, 1929 :—

Chisnall, Harry William.
Dicker, John.
Haining, David.
Mackay, Lionel John Mytton.
Maisey, Arthur Charles.

As the number of candidates nominated does not exceed the number of members to be elected (5), I hereby declare the said Harry William Chisnall, John Dicker, David Haining, Lionel John Mytton Mackay, and Arthur Charles Maisey to be duly elected.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of August, 1929.

JOHN GRAY, Returning Officer.