[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section eighteen of the Forests Act, 1921–22, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby set apart the Crown land and national-endowment land described in the Schedule hereto as a provisional State forest.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—NELSON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.

ALL those areas in the Nelson Land District, Takaka and Collingwood Counties, containing a total of 2,147 acres 2 roods, more or less (525 acres of Crown land and 1,622 acres 2 roods of national-endowment land), and described as follows :-

All that area containing 602 acres, more or less, being Section 5, Block IV, Waitapu Survey District.

Also all that area containing 1,545 acres 2 roods, more or less, being portion of Sections 2 and 6, Block IV, and portion of Section 14, Block V, Waitapu Survey District, and bounded generally as follows : Towards the north by the other portion of Section 2 aforesaid and Section 3, Block IV aforesaid; towards the east by Section 15, Block V aforesaid, and the other portions of Sections 14 and 6 aforesaid; towards the south by Section 25, Block VIII, and national-endowment land; and towards the west by a provisional State forest (4,320 acres—Gazette, 1920, page 928), a river-bank reserve and a road along the eastern bank of the Pariwhakaooho River.

As the same are more particularly delineated on plan No. 99/2, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered green. (Nelson S.O. plan 9037.)

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 19th day of August, 1938.

FRANK LANGSTONE,
Commissioner of State Forests.

God save the King!

Appointment of Hospital Board Representative.—(H. Hos. 17.)

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of August, 1938.

Present :

THE RIGHT HON. M. J. SAVAGE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fifty-eight of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, it is provided that when and so long as in any part of a hospital district there is no contributory local authority the Governor-General may, if he thinks fit, having regard both to the population and to the rateable value of the property in any such part of a hospital district, by Order in Council in the month of December in each year appoint such number of members as he thinks fit as representatives of that part of the district on the Board :

And whereas the Marlborough Hospital District was constituted as from the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, by Order in Council dated the twenty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-third day of January then instant at page 158 :

And whereas the Sounds County being a county in which the Counties Act, 1920, is not in force is a part of the Marlborough Hospital District in which there is no contributory local authority :

And whereas by section one hundred and fifty-one of the said Act it is provided that the Governor-General may from time to time by Order in Council make all such regulations consistent with the said Act as he thinks necessary or expedient for carrying into full effect the provisions thereof :

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 conferred upon him by the said Act, doth hereby declare by way of regulation under the said Act that an appointment of a member as a representative of the Sounds County on the Marlborough Hospital Board may now be made and that the member so appointed shall, unless his office sooner becomes vacant, hold office until the appointment of his successor, and in pursuance of such regulation doth hereby appoint Albert Henry Derbyshire to represent the Sounds County on the Marlborough Hospital Board.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Authorizing Richard Elijah Vincent, of Ohau Downs, Sheep-farmer, to use Water for the Purpose of generating Electricity.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of August, 1938.

Present :

THE RIGHT HON. M. J. SAVAGE 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 of the said Dominion, doth hereby grant to Richard Elijah Vincent, of Ohau Downs, Sheep-farmer (hereinafter referred to as "the licensee"), a license subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth to obstruct, impound, or divert the waters of Wairepo Creek situated in Run 544, Ohau Lake Survey District, in the Land District of Otago, and to take and use therefrom for the purposes hereinafter set forth a stream of water not exceeding four cubic feet per second at any one time.

CONDITIONS.

1. IMPLIED CONDITIONS.

THE conditions directed to be implied in all licenses by the Water-power Regulations, 1934, and the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1935, 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 any regulations made or to be 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 up to a maximum capacity of four kilowatts at 230 volts direct current, and shall be taken from the said stream at the point indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 98916, 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. 98916 :--

(a) Headworks consisting of an intake, dam, water-race, and pipe-lines leading to the water-wheel and power-house hereinafter referred to, giving a static head of approximately 20 ft.

(b) A power-house with all necessary equipment, for generating electricity.

(c) Tail-race leading from the power-house, through Run 544, to the said stream at a point in Run 543, Ohau Lake Survey District.

5. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (d) of clause 21–01 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1935. The generating voltage and the transmission voltage shall be approximately 230 volts direct current.

6. DURATION OF LICENSE.

Unless sooner determined, this license shall continue in force until the 31st day of March, 1959.

7. RENTAL.

For the purpose of assessing the annual rental payable in respect of this license, the licensee may install a suitable maximum-demand indicator to the satisfaction of the Inspecting Engineer of the Public Works Department, and, failing such installation, the rental shall be assessed on the maximum generating capacity of the plant installed. The present plant is rated at 4 kilowatts, and falls within the classes described in paragraph (c) of subclause (B) of clause (1) of Regulation 6 of the Water-power Regulations, 1934.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 26/2773.)