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16. 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.

17. 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 so as to ensure that the provisions of this license are given due effect.

18. 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.

19. REQUIREMENTS OF POVERTY BAY ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD AND WAIKOHU 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 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 Poverty Bay Electric-power Board and the Waikohu County Council.

20. RAILWAYS AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENTS’ LINES.

The licensee shall rectify to the satisfaction of the Government Railways Board or the Minister of Telegraphs, as the case may be, any interference or disturbance caused by the erection or operation of the licensee’s system that affects the satisfactory working of telegraph-lines which are the property of the Railways Department or the Telegraph Department, and which were erected prior to the licensee’s lines.

21. 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.

22. SALE OF ELECTRICITY.

The licensee shall not supply or sell electricity to any person except the owner or occupier for the time being of Wharekopae 1A Block.

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

(P.W. 26/1551.)

License authorizing Arthur Clifford Pease of Mangatoki, to use Water for the purpose of generating Electricity.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of March, 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 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 Arthur Clifford Pease of Mangatoki (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 Sections 8 and 9, Block XII, and Section 36, Block VIII, Kaupokonui Survey District, in the Taranaki Land District (hereinafter referred to as “the said stream”) for the purposes hereinafter set forth, a stream of water (hereinafter referred to as “the said water”) not exceeding three 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.

CONDITIONS.

1. 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.

2. 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) 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 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 Sections 8 and 9, Block XII, Section 36, Block VIII, Kaupokonui Survey District, as indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 85196 (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-lines 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 said works used under the license in proper working-order, during the continuance of this license.

6. 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.

7. RENTAL.

The licensee shall in respect of this license pay to the District Engineer, Public Works Department, Stratford, a yearly rental of 4s. per kilowatt of maximum output generated during each and every year from the 1st April, 1933, with a minimum of 30s. per annum. The output either shall be recorded by means of a watt-hour meter installed by the licensee, or, failing such installation, shall be determined on the maximum capacity of the generating plant installed. The present plant is rated at 7½ kilowatts direct current.

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.