SEPT. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2145

Land set apart as a Permanent State Forest.

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[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 provisional State forest described in the Schedule hereto as a permanent State forest.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—AUCKLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.

ALL those areas in the Auckland Land District, Thames County, containing by admeasurement a total of 2,209 acres 0 roods 28 perches, more or less, being Crown land (2,120 acres 1 rood 28 perches) and Provisional State Forest No. 128 (Gazette, 1925, page 891—88 acres 3 roods), situated in Blocks III, V, and VI, Thames Survey District, and described as follows :—

As the same are more particularly delineated on plan No. 23/45, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (Auckland plan S.O. 2960.)

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 21st day of September, 1938.

FRANK LANGSTONE,
Commissioner of State Forests.

GOD SAVE THE KING !

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Authorizing Blackwater Mines (Limited) to use Water for the Purpose of generating Electricity and amending an existing License.

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of September, 1938.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 amend in the respects set forth in the First Schedule hereto the license therein described (hereinafter called “the principal license”) authorizing Blackwater Mines (Limited), being a company incorporated in England and having its place of business for New Zealand at Reef ton (hereinafter referred to as “the licensee”), to use water for the purpose of generating electricity; and, further, doth hereby grant to the licensee a license subject to the conditions set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, to utilize a second time the same water as is referred to in the principal license at the place, in the manner, and to the extent set forth in the said Second Schedule for the purpose of generating further electrical energy.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

(1) The principal license is the license dated the 3rd day of May, 1934, published in the New Zealand Gazette on the tenth day of the same month, at page 1121, authorizing the licensee to use water for the purpose of generating electricity and to erect electric lines within portion of the Inangahua County; and

(2) The same is amended by deleting from the operative part thereof the portion commencing with the words “to take and use from the Snowy River” and terminating with the words “to supply the said water” and in lieu thereof substituting the following words “to take and use from the Snowy and Alexander Rivers and subsidiary streams at the points hereinafter defined a stream of water (hereinafter referred to as ‘the said water’) not exceeding thirty-two cubic feet per second at any one time of which not more than twenty cubic feet per second shall be taken from the Snowy River and not more than twelve cubic feet per second shall be taken from the Alexander River: Provided that the said water shall be inclusive of and not either wholly or partially in addition to all or any quantities from the said sources 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 either of the said rivers contains sufficient water to supply its proportion of the said water”; and

(3) The point in the Snowy River from which the licensee is authorized to take water is that defined in the principal license and shown on plan P.W.D. 87180, while the point in the Alexander River from which the licensee is authorized to take water is near the junction of the Absolum Creek and the Alexander River as shown on plan P.W.D. 99757, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and the points from which the licensee is authorized to take water from the subsidiary streams are the points on the route of the Alexander water-race indicated on the said plan P.W.D. 99757.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. DESCRIPTION OF WORKS.

The licensee is hereby authorized subject to the conditions hereof to construct, maintain, and use a water-wheel and powerhouse at a point indicated on plan P.W.D. 99757 near the junction of the licensee’s Alexander and Snowy water-races.

2. UTILIZATION OF THE WATER.

Water may be used under the authority of this license solely for the purpose of generating electrical energy up to a maximum output of two hundred and seventy-five kilowatts for use in the licensee’s battery in the vicinity of the north shaft.

3. 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.

4. LICENSE SUBJECT TO REGULATIONS.

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

5. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY.

The system of supply shall be as described in paragraphs (a) and (f) of clause 21–01 of the Electrical Supply Regulations, 1935. The generating voltage and the transmission voltage shall be approximately 3,300 volts between phases.

6. DURATION OF LICENSE.

Unless sooner determined this license shall continue in force until the 3rd day of May, 1956.

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 (such indicator to be calibrated in kilowatts and rental to be charged on a kilowatt basis) 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 275 kilowatts.

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

(P.W. 26/1070.)