3586
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 89

Amending certain Orders in Council authorizing the Otago Central Electric-power Board to use Electric Lines within the Otago Central Electric-power District and Outer Area, and to use Water from the Roaring Meg River for the Purpose of generating Electrical Energy, and to erect and use certain Electric Lines within the County of Vincent.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 18th day of November, 1935.

Present:
THE RIGHT HON. J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Public Works Act, 1928, the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, 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 amend as set out in the Schedule hereto the following Orders in Council, namely:—

(a) The Order in Council dated the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, published in the Gazette No. 46 of the third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, at page 1585, authorizing the Otago Central Electric-power Board to use electric lines within the Otago Central Electric-power District and the Outer Area of such district (hereinafter referred to as the “First Order”); and

(b) The Order in Council dated the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, published in the Gazette No. 94 of the twentieth day of the same month, at page 4293, authorizing the Otago Central Electric-power Board to use water from the Roaring Meg River for the purpose of generating electricity and to erect and use electric lines within the County of Vincent (hereinafter referred to as the “Second Order”);

and for the purposes of section seventy-six of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, doth hereby authorize the Board to construct the electrical works described in the said Orders in Council as hereby amended, subject to the conditions set forth in the said Orders in Council and in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. Clause 1 of the Schedule to the First Order is amended by adding the following: “The foregoing provisions of this clause relating to the source of bulk supply shall have effect only until sufficient supplies of electrical energy are available from the hydro-electric works on the Roaring Meg River established by the licensee in accordance with this license. Thereafter electrical energy shall be received from such hydro-electric works only, save that in the case of emergency, with the consent of the Minister of Public Works, and subject to such conditions as he may impose, the licensee may take supply from the Teviot Electric-power Board in accordance with the provisions hereof.”

2. The operative part of the Second Order is hereby amended by deleting the words “thirty cubic feet per second at any one time,” and substituting the words “thirty-four cubic feet per second at any one time.”

3. Paragraph (d) of clause 6 of the Schedule to the Second Order is hereby amended by deleting all words after the word “power-house,” and substituting therefor the words “on the Lake County bank of the Roaring Meg River to the Board’s substation at Earnscleugh, following the Kawarau Gorge Road to Cromwell; thence following the Clutha Valley to Clyde; thence proceeding southward to the Earnscleugh substation; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 89774, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.”

4. The following paragraph is added after paragraph (d) of clause 6 of the Schedule to the Second Order:—

“(e) The electric line of which the erection, maintenance, and use is authorized by the last preceding paragraph hereof shall be located as far from the telegraph lines between Cromwell and Alexandra as is practicable having regard to the topographical features of the country, and at the request of the Minister the licensee shall take such steps as may from time to time be necessary or desirable to limit the inductive effects of such electric lines under fault conditions.”

5. The Second Order is hereby amended by adding the following clause as clause 20 thereof:—

“20. SALE OF ELECTRICITY TO LAKE WAKATIPU ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

“If the site of the power-house established by the licensee on the Roaring Meg River shall at any time be included in the Otago Central Electric-power District or the Outer Area thereof, and subject to compliance by the Lake Wakatipu Electric-power Board with the requirements of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, and the Public Works Act, 1928, the licensee may supply and sell electrical energy at the power-house to the said Lake Wakatipu Electric-power Board, and for the purposes of clause 17 hereof the quantity of electrical energy so sold shall be deemed to be part of the Board’s normal demand.”

J. A. MITCHELL,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 26/1172; P.W. 26/1172/1.)

License authorizing Alexander Mines, Limited, of Reefton, to use Water for the Purpose of generating Electricity and to erect certain Electric Lines.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 18th day of November, 1935.

Present:
THE RIGHT HON. J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the Public Works Act, 1928, 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 grant to Alexander Mines, Limited, being a company duly incorporated under the Companies Act, 1933, and having its registered office at Reefton (hereinafter referred to as “the licensee”), a license subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth to obstruct, impound, or divert the waters of the Alexander River situated in Block XV, Waitahu Survey District, in the Nelson Land District, and to take and use therefrom for the purposes hereinafter set forth a stream of water not exceeding nine cubic feet per second at any one time, and to lay, construct, put up, place, and use the electric lines hereinafter described.

CONDITIONS.

1. IMPLIED CONDITIONS.

THE conditions directed to be implied in all licenses by the Water-power Regulations, 1934, shall be incorporated in and shall form part of this license, except in so far as the same may be inconsistent with the provisions hereof.

2. LICENSE SUBJECT TO REGULATIONS.

This license is issued under the Water-power Regulations, 1934, and is subject thereto, and to the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1935, and the Electrical Wiring Regulations, 1935, and to any regulations made in amplification or amendment thereof or in substitution therefor.

3. UTILIZATION OF WATER AND LOCATION OF HEADWORKS.

Water shall be used under this license solely for the purpose of generating electricity, and shall be taken from the Alexander River at the point indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 89034, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works.

4. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORKS.

The licensee is hereby authorized, subject to the conditions hereof, to construct, maintain, and use the following works for the purposes of this license, the positions of the said works being indicated on the said plan P.W.D. 89034:—

(a) Headworks consisting of dam and intake, giving a static head of 150 ft. at the power-house.

(b) Water-race and pipe-line from such headworks to the power-house giving a static head of 150 ft.

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

(d) Electric lines leading from the power-house aforesaid for a distance of approximately one mile and a half to the compressor-house on Section 109, with a branch line from near the stamping battery giving supply to the mining camp buildings.