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5. MAINTENANCE OF WORKS.

The licensees 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 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 licensees shall thereupon cease and determine, but such expiration or determination shall not relieve the licensees of any liability theretofore incurred under this license.

7. RENTAL.

The licensees shall in respect of this license pay to the District Electrical Engineer, Hamilton, or otherwise as the Minister may from time to time require, a rental at the rate of 7s. 6d. per annum, commencing from the 1st day of April, 1933. The first payment shall be due and payable on the 1st day of April, 1934: Provided that should the licensees supply electricity to any other person or body corporate, or discontinue the use of the Bryant Home as a convalescent home for children, then the licensees shall pay a yearly rental of £1 10s. in lieu of the rental hereinbefore reserved.

8. GRANTING OF OTHER WATER-RIGHTS.

Nothing herein shall prevent the Governor-General in Council, or the Minister, from granting to any person or body corporate other than the licensees a license or permit to take water from any portion of the said stream, except at the place where the licensees are by this license empowered to take it: Provided that no such license or permit 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 licensees are 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 licensees, be altered by the Governor-General by Order in Council.

10. SURRENDER OF LICENSE.

The licensees 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 licensees fail or neglect 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 (c) of clause 5 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927. The generating and transmission voltage shall be approximately 250 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 licensees of the authority hereby granted: but the licensees 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 licensees 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 licensees fail or neglect 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 licensees at any time desiring to make alterations to the works involving a departure from the location or type of construction shown on the approved plan, they 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.

17. CONTRACT BETWEEN LICENSEES AND CROWN.

This license shall be deemed to constitute a contract as between the licensees and His Majesty the King, and may be enforced by and against either party accordingly.

18. REQUIREMENTS OF THE RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL AND CENTRAL ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the licensees 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 Raglan County Council and the Central Electric-power Board.

19. TIME FOR SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION OF WORKS.

The licensees 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 licensees.

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 substitution 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 licensees’ installation at a valuation to be agreed upon between the said Board or the Crown, as the case may be, and the licensees, 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.

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

(P.W. 26/1828.)

Fixing Sittings of the Court of Appeal.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 30th day of October, 1933.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the Judicature Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Court of Appeal shall hold its sittings at such times and places as are from time to time appointed by the Governor-General in Council and notified in the Gazette twenty-one days at least before the times so fixed respectively, and that such appointment shall determine the division by which such sittings shall be held:

Now, therefore, 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 appoint and declare that sittings of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within the Supreme Court House, in the City of Wellington, upon the following days, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, and doth hereby determine that such sittings shall be held by the respective Divisions of the said Court as are shown hereunder:—

Monday, the twelfth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four: By the First Division of the said Court.

Monday, the eighteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four: By the Second Division of the said Court.

Monday, the seventeenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four: By the First Division of the said Court.

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