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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

License authorizing the Gillespie’s Beach Gold-dredging Company, Limited, of Dunedin, to erect Electric Lines in Portion of the County of Westland.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 19th day of June, 1933.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. J. G. COATES PRESIDING 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 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 the Gillespie’s Beach Gold-dredging Company, Limited, to lay, construct, put up, place, and use the electric lines described in the Schedule hereto on the following conditions.

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CONDITIONS.

1. PURPOSE 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 Supply Regulations, 1927, the Electrical Wiring 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 paragraphs (a) and (e) of clause 5 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927.

4. GENERATING VOLTAGE.

Electrical energy shall be generated at a pressure of 400 volts between phases and transformed up to 11,000 volts between phases for transmission.

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 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.

7. 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.

8. 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 or the Post and Telegraph Department, and which was erected before the erection of the lines hereby licensed.

9. REQUIREMENTS OF WESTLAND 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 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 Westland County Council.

10. 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.

11. CHARGES FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY.

The licensee shall not sell or supply electrical energy to any person or body corporate except with the prior consent in writing of the Minister of Public Works, and subject to such terms and conditions as he may impose.

12. REQUIREMENTS OF THE STATE FOREST.

No lines shall be erected within the Waikukupa State Forest except upon the following conditions, which are in addition to the conditions set forth elsewhere in this license:—

(a) A plan of the survey of the portions of the line in the above-mentioned State forest shall be furnished to the Conservator of Forests at Hokitika.

(b) The timber on the line shall be appraised by the State Forest Service, and the licensee shall pay compensation for all such timber at the rate of ninepence per 100 board feet.

(c) All timber felled in clearing the line and used by the licensee shall be paid for at the current royalty rates. Quarterly returns showing the quantities and the species of timber so used shall be supplied to the Conservator of Forests at Hokitika.

(d) All trees shall be felled on the two-chain line and not into the adjoining forest.

(e) All reasonable precautions against damage by fire to the adjacent forest shall be taken by the licensee to the satisfaction of the Conservator of Forests at Hokitika.

(f) Full rights of ingress, egress, and regress shall be reserved to the State Forest Service.

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SCHEDULE.

LINES adapted for supply as prescribed in these presents for the transmission of electricity: Commencing at the generating-station in Waikukupa State Forest, near the northern bank of the Clearwater River, in Block XVI, Gillespie’s Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly direction across the Clearwater River to a point in Section 851 in the said block; thence in a westerly direction generally across Sections 851, 852, road, 866, and 2238, Block XVI, Sections 2239, 902, road, 872, 845, 2417, 2439, road, again 2439 and 2438, Block XV, Sections 2421, 2436, 2420, river-bank reserve; and proceeding thence generally in a north-westerly direction across the Clearwater River, river-bank reserve, and Section 2496, Block XIV, to the southern boundary of the Waikukupa Forest; thence through the said forest and provisional State forest, in Blocks XIV, X, and IX to the proposed works on M.L. 530, Block IX, all situated in Gillespie’s Survey District, in the County of Westland. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 85478, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

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

(P.W. 26/1840.)

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License authorizing the Taumarunui Borough Council to erect Electric Lines in Portions of the Counties of Kaitieke and Taumarunui.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 19th day of June, 1933.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. J. G. COATES PRESIDING 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 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 the Taumarunui Borough Council to lay, construct, put up, place, and use electric lines within the areas described in the Schedule hereto on the following conditions.