JUNE 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1645

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 Supply Regulations, 1927, and 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 as described in paragraph (e) of clause 5 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927. The generating voltage shall be approximately 3,300 volts between phases, and may if required be transformed up to 6,600 volts between phases for purposes of transmission throughout the licensee's area of supply.

4. DATUM TEMPERATURE.

For the purposes of calculating stresses as provided in clause 108 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, the datum temperature shall be taken as 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

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 Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927, or in any amending or substituted regulations, continue in force until the 21st day of February, 1953.

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 either area 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 within the said areas 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 effects 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.

9. REQUIREMENTS OF KAITIEKE AND TAUMARUNUI COUNTY COUNCILS.

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 Kaitieke and Taumarunui County Councils.

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 route of the Government main trunk transmission-lines.

11. TIME FOR SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION OF WORK.

The licensee shall complete the new works hereby authorized within a period of two years 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 cause not due to any neglect of the licensee,

12. 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, and provided further that if accounts are paid within fourteen days of the due date the charges shall not exceed 9d. per unit for lighting purposes and 4½d. per unit for motor-power, cooking, and heating purposes. In the case of wholesale supply the charge shall not exceed £16 per kilovolt-ampere of maximum demand per year plus ½d. per unit. "Wholesale supply" for this purpose shall be held to be a supply in respect of which the consumer shall guarantee to pay not less than £180 per year.

13. ACCOUNTS AND CHARGES.

The licensee shall as from the 1st day of April, 1933, so keep its accounts as to show separately the expenditure and revenue in respect of all premises supplied with electricity in pursuance of this license.

Notwithstanding anything in the provisions of clause 12 hereof, if not less than 25 per cent. of the consumers whose premises are outside the borough boundary at any time represent to the Minister that the licensee is charging for the supply of electrical energy at a rate which is returning an excessive profit, after allowing for the creation of a reasonable reserve fund, the Minister shall have power to cause such inquiry and investigation of the licensee's books and accounts as he may deem necessary; and if, after such inquiry and investigation, he is of opinion that unreasonably high profits are being made, having regard to all surrounding circumstances and conditions and to the nature of the undertaking, the Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Minister, from time to time reduce or otherwise amend the rates permitted to be charged to consumers under this license.

SCHEDULE.

ELECTRIC lines adapted for the supply of electricity in accordance with this license within the following areas :-

(a) All that portion of the County of Kaitieke commencing at the point where the southern boundary of the additional area of supply defined in the Order in Council dated 21st February, 1921, intersects the eastern boundary of Section 6, Block V, Hunua District ; and proceeding thence in an easterly direction generally along that boundary through Sections 12, 13, 14, Block V, and Sections 5A, 39, 7, 2, 15, 16, Part 13, 19, 18, again 19, 23, and 28, Block VI, Hunua District, to the Whakapapa River; thence in a southerly direction generally along the western bank of the said river to a point south-east of the Owhango Railway-station; thence in a westerly direction generally by a right line to and along a public road to the continuation of the north-eastern boundary of Section 8, Block IV, Kaitieke Survey District; thence in a northerly direction generally by a right line to the northern-most corner of the said Section 8 ; thence in a straight line to and along the western boundary of Block X, Hunua District, to the westernmost corner of Section 6 ; thence along the western boundary of Section 29, Block IX, to its northern boundary; thence along the eastern boundary of the said Block IX, to the south-eastern corner of Section 6, Block V, Hunua District; thence along the eastern boundary of the said Section 6, Block V, to the point of commencement.

(b) All that portion of the County of Taumarunui commencing from the northernmost point of Ohura South M 3B and proceeding thence in an easterly direction generally along the south-eastern boundary of Ohura South M 3A 1, the southern boundary of M 3c, the western and northern boundaries of C 2 3E and C 2 3c, C 2 3D, and C No. 3 to its eastern-most point; thence by a right line to the eastern boundary of Rangitoto-Tuhua N0. 1 (Orangiteihi); thence in a southerly direction along that boundary to the Punga Punga River; thence downstream to the eastern boundary of Block III, Piopiotea Survey District; thence southward along that boundary and along the eastern boundary of Block VII, Piopiotea Survey District, to the northern boundary of the area defined in the Order in Council dated the 21st day of February, 1921, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 24th day of the same month authorizing the Taumarunui Borough Council to erect certain electric lines; thence in a north-westerly direction generally along that boundary to the western boundary of Ohura South M 3A 2C 2B ; thence along that boundary to a tributary of the Wanganui River; thence upstream to the western boundary of M 3B; thence along that boundary to the commencing-point.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 85025, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, the said areas being thereon coloured red and green respectively.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 26/839.)