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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 30

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road hereby stopped : 2 acres O roods 163 perches.
Adjoining or passing through Pukeroa-Hangatiki 5B No. 1 Block.
Situated in Block VIII, Orakiri Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 25266.)
In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 76351, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 13th day of April, 1931.
W. B. TAVERNER, Minister of Public Works.
GOD SAVE THE KING ! (P.W. 34/251.)
Amending License authorizing the Ashburton Electric-power Board to use Electric Lines within the Ashburton Electric-power District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of March, 1931.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, and amendments, the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anyway enabling him in this 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 hereby amend the Order in Council dated the seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourteenth day of the same month, authorizing the Ashburton Electric-power Board to use electric lines within the Ashburton Electric-power District, as follows :-
(a) By inserting in clause 8 thereof the words "or Minister of Railways" after the words "Minister of Telegraphs," and the words "or Railway Department" after the words "Telegraph Department."
(b) By deleting clause 4 of the Schedule thereof and substituting therefor the following clause:-
(4) CHARGES FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY.
Subject to the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927, the maximum charges for electrical energy within the Ashburton Electric-power District shall be as follows :---

1. In the Borough of Ashburton, the Town District of Tinwald, and those portions of the County of Ashburton hereinafter described and referred to as Areas (A) and (B), the charges for electrical energy shall not exceed ls. per unit for lighting purposes and 6d. per unit for motor-power, heating, or cooking purposes : Provided that "lighting purposes" shall include the operations 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 4d. per unit for motor-power, heating, and cooking purposes.
   A minimum charge, not exceeding 6s. per month, including meter rent (if any), may be collected if required by the licensee in the above area. All minimum charges must be clearly printed on the licensee's conditions of supply.
   The portions of the County of Ashburton referred to above as Areas (A) and (B) are described as follows :-
   Area (A) : All that portion of the County of Ashburton bounded as follows : By a line commencing at a point on the railway-line due east of the centre of Walnut Avenue; thence in a northerly direction by the said railway-line to the centre of Racecourse Road; thence in westerly direction to the intersection of Farm Road and Racecourse Road; thence in a southerly direction along the centre of Farm Road to the intersection of Middle Road and Farm Road; thence in a westerly direction along the centre of Middle Road to the intersection of Alford Forest Road and Middle Road; thence in a southerly direction to the River Ashburton; thence towards the east by the northern bank of the Ashburton River to a point due south of the centre of the North-west Belt; thence in a northerly direction along the centre of the North-west Belt to the intersection of Walnut Avenue and the North-west Belt; and thence in an easterly direction along the centre of Walnut Avenue to the commencing-point.
   Area (B) : All that portion of the County of Ashburton bounded as follows : By a line commencing at a point in the middle of Patching Street at its junction with the Ashburton Borough boundary; thence in a northerly direction by a
   line running parallel to Bridge Street to the centre of Smithfield Road; thence in a westerly direction along the centre of Smithfield Road to the intersection of Bridge Street and Smithfield Road; thence in a southerly direction along the centre of Bridge Street to the Borough of Ashburton; thence towards the south by the Borough of Ashburton to the commencing-point.
2. (i) In all other portions of the Ashburton Electric-power District and in the outer area of such district, the licensee may charge for electrical energy on a tariff consisting of two parts including (a) a service charge, not exceeding 13 per cent. per annum of the capital cost (as defined by Regulation 12 clauses (2) and (5) of the Electrical Supply Regulations 1927) of the distribution-line necessary to serve any consumer or group of consumers, such service charge to be equitably proportioned per consumer served by such line, plus (b) a unit charge not exceeding 3d. per unit for all electrical energy consumed.
   (ii) Or, alternatively, the licensee may charge any consumer coming within the scope of subsection 2 (i), the tariff schedule in section. (1) hereof: Provided that the amount paid by such consumer exceeds the service charge applicable to his section of line by one-third part of such service charge.
   (iii) Or, alternatively, the licensee may collect a monthly or quarterly minimum charge calculated to show a gross return not exceeding 18 per cent. per annum of the capital cost (as defined by Regulation 12, clauses (2) and (5), of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927) of the distribution-line necessary to supply any consumer or group of consumers, such minimum charge to be equitably proportioned per consumer served by such line.
3. In the case of wholesale supply the charge shall not exceed £12 per kilovolt-ampere of maximum demand per year plus d. 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.
   C. A. JEFFERY,
   Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
   (P.W. 26/1140.)
   Apportionment of Representation on the Auckland Hospital Board.
   BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
   ORDER IN COUNCIL.
   At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of April, 1931.
   Present.
   HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
   WHEREAS from time to time by Order in Council made under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, and enuring under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926 (hereinafter called "the said Act"), and particularly by Order in Council made on the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, at page 773 (hereinafter called "the said Order in Council"), provision was made among other matters for representation of the combined contributory district of Road Districts in Eden County :
   And whereas since the date of the said Order in Council the One Tree Hill Borough has been constituted it is desirable to abolish the said combined district and to constitute a new combined district and provide for representation of the One Tree Hill Borough on the Auckland Hospital 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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the last-mentioned Act, doth hereby revoke the said Order in Council so far as it constitutes the combined district of Road Districts in Eden County and provides for representation thereof on the Auckland Hospital Board, and doth hereby constitute the One Tree Hill Borough, Mount Roskill Road District, Mount Wellington Road District, and the Panmure Township Road District a combined district for the purposes of the said Act, and doth declare that the One Tree Hill Borough shall be the principal contributory local authority of such combined district, and doth determine that the number of representatives of the said combined district on the said Hospital Board shall be one, and doth fix the date of the first election of the representative of the said combined district as the date on which shall be held the next general election of members of the One Tree Hill Borough, and doth hereby further declare that the representative of the combined district of Road Districts in Eden County, the constitution of which is hereby revoked, shall continue to hold office until the said date, and shall then retire from office.
   F. D. THOMSON,
   Clerk of the Executive Council.