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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 permit pay to the Public Works Engineer for the district, or otherwise, as the Minister may from time to time require, a rental at the rate of £2 per annum, payment to be made yearly on the 31st day of March. The existing generating plant is rated at 250 volts 40 amps.

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 licensee a license or permit 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 or permit shall so operate as to enable such person or body corporate to reduce the natural fall between the headworks and tailwater, 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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the licensee shall not by virtue of these presents be entitled to generate electricity, except subject to such conditions (not inconsistent with the provisions of this license) as may from time to time be imposed by the Waitaki County Council.

19. RAILWAYS AND TELEGRAPH 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.

20. 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 the 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.

F. D. THOMSON,
(P.W. 26/1846.) Clerk of the Executive Council.

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £700 by the Te Awamutu Fire Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1933.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Te Awamutu Fire Board (hereinafter called “the said local authority”), being desirous of raising the sum of seven hundred pounds (£700) by a loan to be known as “Fire Tender Loan, 1933” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), for the purpose of purchasing and equipping a new Ford V 8 Fire Tender with 250-gallon rotary pump, has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, and it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council, as required by the said Act, should be given to the raising of the said loan: 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, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2), and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby consent to the raising by the said local authority of the said loan up to the amount of seven hundred pounds (£700), and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

1. The term for which the said loan or any part thereof may be raised shall not exceed seven (7) years.

2. The rate of interest that may be paid from time to time in respect of the said loan or any part thereof shall not exceed current bank overdraft rates to best customers.

3. The said loan shall be repaid by annual instalments of principal of not less than one hundred pounds (£100) during the first six (6) years of the currency of the loan and the balance in the seventh year.

4. No such instalment shall be paid out of loan-money.

(T. 49/585.) F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Order in Council consenting to the Conversion of Portion of the Eastbourne Borough Council’s Loan of £40,000 and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1933.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Eastbourne Borough Council, being desirous of converting under the provisions of Part V of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, portion of the Council’s Water and Sewerage Loan, 1931, of £40,000, has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board