May 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1421

Extending Time for closing Poll, Papatoetoe Town District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of May, 1934.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby extend the hour at which the election of members of the Papatoetoe Town Board, to be held on Wednesday, the nineteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, shall close to seven o’clock in the afternoon of the day appointed.

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

(I.A. 1934/113/1.)

License authorizing Blackwater Mines (Limited) to use Water for the Purpose of generating Electricity, and to erect Electric Lines within Portion of the Inangahua County.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of May, 1934.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anywise 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 grant to Blackwater Mines (Limited), being a company duly incorporated under the Companies Act, 1933 (hereinafter referred to as “the licensee”), a license subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the First Schedule hereto to take and use from the Snowy River a stream of water not exceeding twenty-five cubic feet per second at any one time (which stream is hereinafter referred to as the “said water”); provided that the said water shall be inclusive of and not in addition to all or any quantities from the same source granted to the licensee by licenses issued under the Mining Act or any other authority; provided further that nothing herein contained shall be held to guarantee that the said river contains sufficient water to supply the said water; and subject to the regulations made under section two of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, dated the eleventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twelfth day of the same month, or any regulations made or to be made in amendment or amplification thereof or in substitution therefor (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the regulations”), and which regulations shall be deemed to be incorporated herein, doth hereby grant to the licensee a license to lay, construct, put up, place, or use within the area of supply defined in the Second Schedule hereto the electric lines described in the First Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

1. UTILIZATION OF THE WATER.

THE said water shall be used solely for the purpose of generating electricity, and shall be returned to the Snowy River at or near the power-house where it is utilized.

2. PLANS.

The plans herein described by the letters “P.W.D.,” followed by numerical references, are plans which have been deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

The licensee shall, upon request in writing, forward to the Minister of Public Works (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”)—

(a) Full detailed drawings and specifications of the diverting weir:

(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) Drawings showing the arrangement of the generating, switching, and transforming plant in the power-station.

3. LOCATION OF HEADWORKS.

The said water shall be taken from the said river at the dam constructed at a point indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 87180.

4. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORKS.

Subject to the conditions in this license set forth, the licensee is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and use the following works for the purpose of this license, the position of the said works described in subclauses (a), (b), and (c) hereunder being indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 87180:—

(a) Headworks consisting of weir and necessary intakes:

(b) Races, penstocks, and pipe-lines leading from such weir to the power-house hereinafter referred to; also tail-race to Snowy River:

(c) Power-house with all necessary equipment including water turbines, generators, transformers, lightning-arresters, switchboards, switches, exciters, and other appliances for generating electricity:

(d) Transmission and other lines over the routes shown by means of white lines on plans marked P.W.D. 86969 and brown lines on P.W.D. 87180.

(e) Such further transmission and other lines within the area of supply as may from time to time be required, but any extensions or alterations of lines made pursuant to this paragraph shall be made only after compliance with clauses 21, 22, and 23 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1927.

5. MAINTENANCE OF WORKS.

After the said works have been completed the licensee shall maintain the same 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. 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 or his assigns shall thereupon cease and determine; but such expiration or determination shall not relieve the licensee of any liability theretofore incurred under this license. Such surrender shall be without prejudice to any rights held by the licensee under the Mining Act, 1926, or any similar statute.

7. RENTAL.

The licensee shall, in respect of this license, pay to the Public Works Engineer for the Greymouth District, or otherwise as the Minister may from time to time require, a rental at the rate of 4s. per annum per kilowatt of maximum output, as recorded by the watthour-meter to be installed by the licensee at the power-house mentioned in clause 4 (c) hereof, payment to be made yearly for the period ending on the 31st day of March in each year. “Maximum output” means twice the number of units generated in the half-hour during which the number of units generated is a maximum for the year. For this purpose the units generated shall be recorded at the end of each half-hour commencing from noon of each day.

Electrical energy generated under this license and used under the Mining Act, 1926, for the licensee’s own use for mining purposes only shall be separately metered and deducted from the above-mentioned maximum output.

8. DATUM TEMPERATURE.

For the purposes of calculating stresses as provided in clause 108 of the regulations, the datum temperature shall be taken as 12° Fahrenheit.

9. 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 the said river 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 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 river.

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, poles, transmission-lines, 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, poles, lines, and other plant shall, without payment of compensation, vest in and become the property of the Crown.