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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 92, 20 April 1891, Page 4

PuMic Kotces. IN the matter of a Bill inbibuled an Act to authorise " The New Zealand Electrical Syndicate (Limited)," to break up or cross over streets, roads, rivers, and bridges, and to placo mains, service lines and distributing mains either above or below ground, and to lay down and place pipes, conduits and service pipes, and to erect pillars, arches or poles, and to make, consbrucfa and do other works and things for supplying the city of Auckland and suburbs with electrical energy: Notice is hereby given thab application is intended to be made at the next session of the General Aesenably of riew Zealand for leave to bring in a, Bill to authorise "The New Zealand Electrical Syndicate (Ltd. j" hereinafter reforred to as " the Company " to place maias, service lines and distributing mains either above or below ground, and to lay down and placo pipes, conduits, and service pipea, and to ereco pillars, arches, or poles, and to break up or cross over streets, rivers, and bridges, and to make and construct other works for supplying the City of Auckland and suburbs with electrical energy, and for other purposea relating thereto, and to tho objects tor which the said Company has been established. Copies of the Bill will be deposited ab the office oi the Examiner of Standing Orders, on or before the commencement of the session, and mayalsobehaduponapplication to Measrs Bell, Gully, and Izard, solicitors, Wellington, Agents for the Bill, or from the undersigned. It is intended to apply for the followingpowers on behalf of the Company, that is to say : The Company under th.? superintendence of the pardons having tiie control thereof respectively may open and break up or cross over the soil and pavement of the several streets, roada, rivers and bridges within the limits ot this Acb and may open and break up or cross over any sewers, drains or tunnels within or under such streets rivers and bridges and lay down and place within, or over the same limits, pipes, conduits, and service pipes, and main service lines, and distributing mains, and make, construct, and do other works and things, and from time to time repair, alter, or remove the Bame, and for the purposes aioresaid may remove and uae all earth and materials in and under such streets, rivers, and bridges, and may in or on such streets and bridges erect any pillars, arches or poles, lamps and other works, and do all other acts and things which the Company shall from time bo time deem necessary for supplying electrical energy within the limits hereinafter mentioned, doing ac little damage as may be in the execution of the powers by this Act granted and making compensation for any damage which may be done in the execution of such powers. Thab the Company may from time to time enter into any contract with any person lor lighting by means of electricity or supplying with electrical energy any public or private buildings, or for providing any person with pipes, service, mains, transformers, accumulators, conductors, burners, meters, and lamps, and for the repair thereof, and may also from time to time enter into any contract with the Mayor and Corporation of Auckland or the City Council thereof or other persona or body corporate having the control of any of the streets, roads, rivers, or bridges within the limits aforesaid for lighting fine same or any of them by means of electricity or for supplying them with electrical energy, and for providing such Mayor and Corporation, City Council, persons or body corporate with lamps, lamp-posts, burners, andpipes.mains.translormers.accumulato-s or conductors for such purpose and for the repairs thereof in such manner and upon such terms as shall be agreed upon between the Company and the eaid Mayor and Corporation, City Council, or other persons or body corporate, and the.maximum'charge to be made for the actual amount of energy supplied to any consumer, or for the electrical quantity contained in any such supply, shall be ati or according to the rates specified in this Acb or in the i-chedtiles hereto. That the Company may let for hire any meter for ascertaining the quantity of electrical current or electrical energy consumed, absorbed, or supplied, and also any electrical fittings, including transformers for altering tension and accumulators for storing the energy, for such remuneration in money as shall be agreed upon between the Company and any person to whom the same may be so let, and such remuneration shall be recoverable in the same manner as the rents or sums due to the Company for electrical energy supplied, and such metera and fittings shall not be subject to distress for rent of the premises where the same may be used, nor to be taken in execution under any proceea or proceeding of a Court of Law or Equity, or in bankruptcy against the person in whose possession the same may be. That the Clerk, Engineer, or other officer duly appointed for the purpose by the Company may at all reasonable times enter any building or place supplied by the Company with electrical energy, in order to inspect- the meters, fittings, transformers, accumulators, and other instruments or things, ' and for regulating the supply thereof, and for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of or energy consumed, absorbed or supplied, and if any person hinder such officer as aforesaid from entering and making such inspection as aforesaid at any reasonable ticae, he shall for every such offence be liable to forfeit a sum nob exceeding five pounds. That if any person supplied with electrical current or energy neglect to pay the renb due for the same to the Company the Company may stop sunh current or energy from entering the premises of such person by switching the same off or by such means es the Company shall think fit, and may recover the rent due from such person together with the expense of switching off tho current or energy and the costs of recovering the rent by action in any court of law of competent jurisdiction. That in all cases in which the Company are authorised to switch off and take away the supply of electrical current or energy, from any house, building or premises under the provisions of this Acb, the Company, their Agents or workmen after giving forty-eight hours previous notjee in writing to the occupier, or if no occupier, then after leaving such notice on any portion of the premises may enter into such house, building, or premises between the hours of nine in the forenoon and four in the afternoon, and removo and carry away any main switch, transformer, accumulator, meter, fittings or other things, being the property of the Company. j The Company may uiaka bye-laws or regulations provided the same shall not be repugnant to this Act or to the Electric Lines Act, 1884, or to the Municipal Corporations Act, 1886, or to any Statutory Amendment thereof, or to any Road Board or County Act of the General Assembly, or to any bye-law or regulation which may now or hereafter be made thereunder, respectively, and may impose any penalty not exceeding the sum of £5 for the breach of any bye-law or regulation of the Company. The limits within which such works as aforesaid are intended to be made and maintained extend to and include the City of Auckland, the Borough of I'arnell, the Borough of Newmarket, the Borough of Devonporb, and all lauds lying within a radius of five miles from the Auckland City Market Such works as aforesaid are intended to be made and maintained wholly in the counties of Waibemata, Eden, and Manukau, and through the City of Auckland, the Boroughs of Parnell, Newmarkeb end Devonport, and the whole « portions of the