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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.

7. RENTAL.

The licensee shall in respect of this license pay to the District Electrical Engineer, Public Works Department, Hamilton, a yearly rental at 4s. per kilowatt of maximum output generated during each and every year from 1st April, 1932, with a minimum of £3 14s. 6d. per annum. The output either 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. The present plant is rated at 440 volts 24·5 amperes per phase.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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, and other plant herein authorized to be installed or provided. If the licensee fails or neglects so to remove the said plant within twelve months after being required so to do, such equipment, machinery, buildings, and other plant shall, without payment of compensation, vest in and become the property of the Crown.

11. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (a) of clause 5 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927.

The generating and transmission voltage shall be approximately 440 volts between phases.

12. CROWN NOT LIABLE TO PAY COMPENSATION.

Nothing in this license shall be held to impose any liability upon His Majesty the King or upon the Government of New Zealand to pay compensation to any person, corporate body, or local authority by reason of the exercise by the licensee of the authority hereby granted; but the licensee shall be liable for any loss or damage which any person, corporate body, or local authority may sustain as the result of the exercise by the licensee of any of the powers granted by this license.

13. BED OF STREAM NOT LEASED.

Nothing herein shall be held to constitute a lease from the Crown of the bed of the stream shown on the said plan, nor shall the provisions of Part IX of the Property Law Act, 1908 apply to this license.

14. DEFAULT.

If the licensee fails or neglects to observe any of the conditions or obligations imposed by this license, then and in any such case the provisions of clauses 229 and 230 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927, shall apply to the breach of any such condition or obligation.

15. ALTERATIONS TO WORKS.

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

16. INSPECTION OF WORKS.

The Inspecting Engineer of the Public Works Department or any other person empowered in that behalf by the Minister shall at all times, both during and after the construction of the works, have free access to and liberty to inspect such works in order to ensure that the provisions of this license are given due effect to.

17. 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 by and against either party accordingly.

18. REQUIREMENTS OF THE RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 authorized under licenses dated 21st June, 1926, and 30th January, 1931, respectively, except subject to such conditions (not inconsistent with the provisions of this license or of the regulations) as may from time to time be imposed by the Raglan County Council¹.

19. TIME FOR SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION OF WORKS.

The licensee shall substantially complete the works hereby authorized within a period of one year from the date of this license, or within such further time as the Minister may allow in the event of the work being delayed by strikes, lock-outs, breakdowns, or other unavoidable causes not due to any neglect by the licensee.

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

(P.W. 26/1362.)

License authorizing Donald Simpson, of Karamea, Garage Proprietor, to erect Electric Lines in Portion of the Buller County.

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 anywise enabling him in that 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 authorize Donald Simpson, of Karamea, Garage Proprietor, to lay, construct, put up, place, and use the electric lines described in the Schedule hereto on the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. PURPOSES OF LINES.

THE said lines may be used for lighting, power, and heating purposes.

2. LICENSE TO BE SUBJECT TO REGULATIONS.

The license hereby conferred is subject to compliance by the licensee with the Electrical Wiring Regulations, 1927, the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927, and with all regulations made or to be made in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor.

3. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

The system of supply shall be the system described in paragraph (c) of clause 5 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927.

4. GENERATING VOLTAGE.

Electrical energy shall be generated at a pressure of 110 volts between terminals.

5. 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 twenty-one years from the date hereof.

6. 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