✨ Electric Power and Water Licenses
Oct. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2137
REQUIREMENTS OF THE OTAGO ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD AND
MANIOTOTO COUNTY COUNCIL.
Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the
licensees shall not, by virtue of these presents, be entitled to
lay, construct, put up, place, or use the electric lines hereby
authorized except subject to such conditions, not inconsistent
with the provisions of this license or of the said regulations
or any regulations hereafter made in amendment thereof or
in substitution therefor, as may from time to time lawfully
be imposed by the Otago Electric-power Board and the
Maniototo County Council.
ROUTES RESERVED FOR GOVERNMENT LINES.
Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained the
licensees 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.
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SCHEDULE.
LINES adapted for supply as prescribed in these presents for
the transmission of electricity, commencing at Booth’s Garage,
situated on Section 185, Township of Komako, Block XI,
Maniototo Survey District, and proceeding thence across a
road, across Section 192, and across another road to the public
hall situated on part Section 195 of the same block and survey
district. As the same is more particularly delineated on the
plan marked P.W.D. S3728, deposited in the office of the
Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured
red.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 26/1756.)
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License authorizing William George McMillan, of Cromwell,
Farmer, to use Water from Lochar Creek for the Purpose of
generating Electricity, and to erect and use Electric Lines
within Run 630, Wakefield Survey District.
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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of
October, 1932.
Present :
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the
Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in any-
wise 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 grant to William George McMillan, of
Cromwell, Farmer (hereinafter with his successors and assigns
referred to as “the licensee”), a license, subject to the condi-
tions hereinafter set forth, to take and use from the stream known
as Lochar Creek (hereinafter referred to as “the said stream”),
in the Otago Land District, for the purposes hereinafter set
forth, a stream of water (hereinafter referred to as “the
said water”) not exceeding one and three-quarters cubic feet
per second respectively at any one time; and also to lay,
construct, put up, place, and use the electric lines hereinafter
described on the conditions hereinafter set forth: Provided
that nothing herein shall be held to guarantee that the said
stream contains sufficient water to supply the volume of
water hereinbefore referred to; and all rights hereby granted
shall be subject to all existing rights heretofore granted under
the Mining Acts or otherwise.
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CONDITIONS.
- REGULATIONS.
This license is subject to the Electrical Supply Regulations,
1927 (hereinafter called “the Regulations”), the Electrical
Wiring Regulations, 1927, and any regulations made or to
be made in amendment of or in substitution for either the
Electrical Supply Regulations or the Electrical Wiring
Regulations.
- PLANS.
The licensee shall forward for the approval of the Minister
of Public Works (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”)
—
(a) Full detailed drawings and specifications of the divert-
ing weirs :
(b) Drawings showing how and in what manner the water
is diverted :
(c) Contour-plans showing difference in level of water due
to the construction of the headworks :
(d) Drawings giving full particulars of any tunnels,
aqueducts, and pipe-lines used in conveying the
water from the headworks to the power-station :
(e) Drawings showing the arrangement of the generating,
switching, and transforming plant in the power-
station :
- UTILIZATION OF THE WATER.
The said water shall be used under this license solely for
the purpose of generating electricity.
- LOCATION OF HEADWORKS.
The said water shall be taken from Lochar Creek situated
in Block II, Tarras Survey District, as indicated on the plan
marked P.W.D. 84207 (hereinafter referred to as the “said
plan”), deposited in the office of the Minister of Public
Works at Wellington.
- GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORKS.
The licensee is hereby authorized, subject to the conditions
herein contained, to construct, maintain, and use the follow-
ing works for the purposes of this license, the position of
the said works being indicated on the said plan :
(a) Headworks consisting of dam and necessary intakes :
(b) Pipe-line leading from head-race to the power-house
hereinafter referred to ; also tail-race from the power-
house to the Clutha River :
(c) Power-house with all necessary equipment, including
water-turbines, generators, transformers, lightning-
arresters, switchboards, switches, exciters, and other
appliances for generating electricity :
(d) Transmission and other lines over the routes shown
on the said plans :
(e) Such further transmission and other lines within the
premises of the licensee as may from time to time be
required. Any extensions or alterations of lines
pursuant to this paragraph shall be made only after
compliance with the provisions of clauses 21, 22,
and 23 of the regulations.
- MAINTENANCE OF WORKS.
The licensee shall maintain the works used under this
license in proper working-order during the continuance of
such license.
- DURATION OF LICENSE.
This license shall, unless sooner determined in accordance
with the provisions hereinafter expressed, continue in force
for a period of twenty-one years from the date hereof. 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 thereupon cease and determine,
but such expiration or determination shall not relieve the
licensee of any liability theretofore incurred under this license.
- RENTAL.
The licensee shall, in respect of this license pay to the
District Electrical Engineer, Public Works Department,
Dunedin, a yearly rental of 4s. per kilowatt of maximum
output generated during each and every year from 1st April,
1932, with a minimum of £1 per annum. The output shall
be recorded by means of a watt-hour meter installed by the
licensee, or, failing such installation, it shall be determined
on the maximum capacity of the generating plant installed.
- GRANTING OF OTHER WATER-RIGHTS.
Nothing herein shall prevent the Governor-General in
Council from granting to any person or body corporate other
than the licensee a license to take water from any portion
of the said stream, except at the place where the licensee is
by this license empowered to take it: Provided that no
such license shall so operate as to enable such person or body
corporate to reduce the natural fall between the headworks
and tail-water, or the volume of the water which the licensee
is by this license authorized to take from the said stream.
- VARIATION IN CONDITIONS OF LICENSE.
The terms and conditions of this license may 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.
- SURRENDER OF LICENSE.
The licensee may at any time, with the consent of the
Minister, surrender this license, and shall thereupon remove
from the ground (if so required by the Minister) all removable
equipment, machinery, buildings, poles, transmission-lines,
and other plant herein authorized to be installed or provided.
If the licensee fails or neglects so to remove the said plant
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