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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 34

11. 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 at a frequency of 50 cycles per second.

12. CHARGES FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY.

The charge for electrical energy shall not exceed 1s. 3d. per unit for lighting purposes, and 6d. per unit for motor-power, cooking, or heating purposes :

Provided that if accounts are paid within fourteen days of due date the charges shall not exceed 1s. per unit for lighting purposes and 4½d. per unit for motor-power, cooking, or heating purposes. “Lighting purposes” shall include the operation of motor generators for lighting purposes. In the case of wholesale supply the charge shall not exceed £16 per kilowatt of maximum demand per annum. “Wholesale supply,” for this purpose, shall be held to be a supply in respect to which the consumer shall guarantee to pay not less than £120 per annum.

13. REQUIREMENTS OF THE INANGAHUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the licensee shall not be entitled to erect, maintain, or use any electric lines, except subject to such by-laws, not inconsistent with the provisions of this license (or any variation of this license) and the regulations, as may from time to time be in force within the Inangahua County.

14. RIGHT TO PURCHASE WORKS.

Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the licensee undertakes to sell to His Majesty the King, or to an Electric-power Board or local authority whose district may include the area described in the Second Schedule hereto, at such price and on such conditions as may be mutually agreed upon (or, failing such mutual agreement, then determined by arbitration in the manner prescribed by the Arbitration Act, 1908), this license in so far as it is legally necessary under the Public Works Act, but not including the licensee’s rights under the Mining Act or any Act passed in substitution therefor, together with the whole or any part of the business and undertaking of the licensee, so far as the same relates to or is connected with the distribution of electrical energy to consumers, and together with all real and personal property and all rights acquired by the licensee under this license and used or enjoyed in connection with such whole or part as it is proposed should be purchased. The said option may be exercised at any time during the currency of this license, but the said price shall not exceed the original cost to the licensee of the works (including reasonable preliminary and engineering expenses), less a deduction for depreciation at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum on the original cost on all assets other than land calculated for the period that such assets have been in service, and also a deduction in consequence of any burdensome provisions respecting the use of the electric works or any easements, rights, or privileges in connection therewith, and shall not include any sum in respect of the value of the goodwill of the licensee’s business or undertaking, or in respect of the value of the license for the unexpired period thereof, or in respect of the value of any Crown land held or occupied by the licensee in connection with the undertaking.

15. COMPENSATION PAYABLE FOR LAND INJURIOUSLY AFFECTED, ETC.

In respect of all land injuriously affected, and in respect of all damages done by the exercise of any of the powers conferred upon the licensee by this license, the licensee shall from time to time, as and when any such injury or damage accrues or happens, pay compensation in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, in the same manner (subject to all necessary modifications) as if such licensee were a local authority and the claim were one for injury or damage arising out of the construction of a public work.

16. CROWN NOT LIABLE TO PAY COMPENSATION.

Nothing in this license shall be held to cast upon or imply 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.

17. BED OF RIVER NOT LEASED.

Nothing herein shall be held to constitute a lease from the Crown of the bed of the said river, nor shall the provisions of Part IX of the Property Law Act, 1908, apply to this license.

18. 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 as a contract by and against His said Majesty or the licensee accordingly.

19. 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.

20. ALTERATIONS TO WORKS.

In the event of the licensee at any time desiring to make alterations to the works it shall first submit for the Minister’s approval plans showing such alterations as it is proposed to make, and with such approval the alterations may be carried out.

21. 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 have free access to and liberty to inspect such works so as to ensure that the provisions of this license are given due effect.

22. RAILWAY AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENTS’ LINES.

The licensee shall rectify to the satisfaction of the Minister of Railways 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.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

AREA OF SUPPLY.

THE area of supply shall comprise that portion of Inangahua County known as Waiuta Township, situated in Block XIII, Waitahu Survey District, Westland Land District, within a radius of one mile of the main shaft of the Blackwater Mine, as shown on the plan marked P.W.D. 86969.

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

(P.W. 26/1070.)

Revoking Order in Council of the 20th April, 1931, licensing Messrs. A. S. Andrewes and Sons to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore at Opononi, Hokianga Harbour, as a Site for a Wharf.

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.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-third day of the same month, at page 1049, Messrs. A. S. Andrewes and Sons, of Opononi (hereinafter called “the licensees”), were licensed to use and occupy a part of the foreshore at Opononi, Hokianga Harbour, as a site for a wharf :

And whereas it is desirable that the said license should be revoked :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Harbours Act, 1923, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council of the twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, as from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four.

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