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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

(d) Drawings giving full particulars of any tunnel, aqueducts,
and pipe-lines used in conveying the water from the
headworks to the power-station.
(e) Drawing showing the arrangement of the generating,
switching, and transforming plant in the power-
station.

3. UTILIZATION OF THE WATER AND LOCATION OF HEADWORKS.
   The said water is hereby declared to be portion of and
   not in addition to the quantity of water which the licensee
   was authorized to take from the said stream for the purpose
   of driving machinery and generating electricity by a grant
   in pursuance of section 308 of the Public Works Act, 1928,
   dated the 5th day of September, 1932, which grant is here-
   inafter referred to as “ the said grant.”
   The said water shall be used under this license solely for
   the purpose of generating electricity, and shall be taken from
   the said stream situated opposite Lot 2, of Section 19,
   Block VII, Oamaru Survey District, as indicated on the
   plan marked P.W.D. 83361 (hereinafter referred to as “ the
   said plan ”), deposited in the office of the Minister of Public
   Works at Wellington.

4. 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 headrace 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.

5. MAINTENANCE OF WORKS.
   The licensee shall maintain the works used under this
   license in proper working-order, during the continuance of
   such license.

6. DURATION OF LICENSE.
   This license shall, unless sooner determined in accordance
   with the provisions hereinafter expressed, continue in force
   until the 5th day of September, 1953. Upon the expiry of
   the said term, or upon the sooner determination of this license
   be revocation or otherwise, all rights hereby granted to the
   licensee shall thereupon cease and determine, but such ex-
   piration or determination shall not relieve the licensee of any
   liability theretofore incurred under this license. It is hereby
   declared that either this license or the said grant may continue
   in force or be revoked or cancelled independently of the other.

7. RENTAL.
   Subject to the proviso hereinafter contained, the licensee
   shall in respect of this license pay to the District Engineer,
   Public Works Department, Dunedin, a yearly rental at 4s. per
   kilowatt of maximum output generated during each and every
   year from the 1st April, 1933, with a minimum of 10s. per
   annum, provided that such rental shall not be payable if the
   licensee has paid the rental of £6 per annum provided for in
   clause 5 of the said grant in respect of the same period. 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 115 volts
   21·5 amperes.

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 com-
    pensation, vest in and become the property of the Crown.

11. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.
    The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (c)
    of clause 5 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927. The
    generating and transmission voltage shall be approximately
    115 volts direct current.

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 con-
    ditions 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 loca-
    tion or type of construction shown on the approved plan, he
    shall first submit for the Minister’s approval plans showing
    such new location and (or) type of construction as it is pro-
    posed 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 WAITAKI COUNTY COUNCIL AND
    WAITAKI ELECTRIC-POWER 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 regulations) as
    may from time to time be imposed by the Waitaki County
    Council and the Waitaki Electric-power Board.

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, lockouts,
    breakdowns, or other unavoidable causes not due to any
    neglect by the licensee.

20. PURCHASE OF INSTALLATION BY ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD
    OR CROWN.
    Subject to the provisions of the Electric-power Boards Act,
    1925, and any Act passed in amendment thereof or in sub-
    stitution therefor, any Electric-power Board whose district or
    outer area includes the area on which this plant is installed,
    or which is supplied therefrom, 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 valua-
    tion to be agreed upon between the said Board or the Crown,
    as the case may be, and the licensee ; and, failing such agree-
    ment, 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.

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

(P.W. 46/1125.)