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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13
- SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.
The system of supply shall be the system described in paragraph (c) of clause 5 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927.
- GENERATING VOLTAGE.
Electrical energy shall be generated at a pressure of 32 volts between terminals.
- DURATION OF LICENSE.
This license shall, unless sooner determined, whether by surrender by the licensee or by revocation under the provisions contained in the said regulations or in any amending or substituted regulations, continue in force for a period of two years from the date hereof.
- PURCHASE OF INSTALLATION BY ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD OR CROWN.
Subject to the provisions of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, or any Act passed in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor, any Electric-power Board duly constituted in terms of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, or any Act passed in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor, if its district or outer area shall include the area in which are erected the lines described in the Schedule hereto, or the Crown, shall have the right, at any time during the currency of this license, to purchase and take over the licensee’s installation at a valuation to be agreed upon between the said Board or the Crown, as the case may be, and the licensee; and, failing such agreement, at a valuation to be fixed by a single arbitrator to be appointed pursuant to the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1908, and thereupon the Governor-General may by Order in Council revoke this license.
- EFFECT OF DETERMINATION OF LICENSE.
The determination of this license, whether by expiration of time, by surrender, or by revocation as aforesaid, shall not relieve the licensee from any liability theretofore incurred under this license.
- RAILWAY AND TELEGRAPH LINES.
The licensee shall, from time to time, rectify to the satisfaction of the Government Railways Board and the Minister of Telegraphs respectively any interference or disturbance caused by the erection or operation of the licensee’s system that affects the satisfactory working of any telegraph-line which is under the control of or in use by the Railways Department and the Post and Telegraph Department respectively, and which was erected before the erection of the lines hereby licensed.
- REQUIREMENTS OF WARKWORTH TOWN BOARD.
Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the licensee 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 Warkworth Town Board.
- ROUTES RESERVED FOR GOVERNMENT LINES.
Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained 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.
- 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.
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SCHEDULE.
LINES adapted for supply as prescribed in these presents for the transmission of electricity—(a) Commencing at the licensee’s premises situated on Section 4, Block XII, Warkworth Town District, and proceeding thence across that portion of Percy Street situated between Section 4, Block XII, and Section 1, Block A; thence across Section 1, Block A to the Masonic Hall situated on Section 2, Block A, Warkworth Town District; (b) within Pts. Lot 67, Mahurangi Parish, Warkworth Town District, and across the intervening portion of Queen Street.
As the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked P.W.D. 84498 and 84770, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red and green respectively.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 26/1717.)
License authorizing Mervyn William Wallis, of Okete, Flax-miller, to use Water for the Purpose of generating Electricity.
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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1933.
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 Mervyn William Wallis, of Okete, Flax-miller (hereinafter with his successors and assigns referred to as “the licensee”), a license, subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, to take and use from a stream situated in Section 28, Block II, Karioi Survey District (hereinafter referred to as “the said stream”), in the Auckland Land District, for the purposes hereinafter set forth, a stream of water (hereinafter referred to as “the said water”) not exceeding seven cubic feet per second at any one time: 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 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 diverting 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 AND LOCATION OF HEADWORKS.
The said water shall be used under this license solely for the purpose of generating electricity. The said water shall be taken from the said stream situated in Section 28, Block II, Karioi Survey District, as indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 78888 (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 following 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 said stream:
(c) Power-house with all necessary equipment, including water-turbines, generators, transformers, lightning-arresters, switchboards, switches, exciters, and other appliances for generating electricity:
- 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 until the 30th day of January, 1941. Upon the expiry of the said term, or upon the sooner determination of this license
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