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Press, Volume XVI, Issue 2166, 28 March 1870, Page 3

New Advertisements. IN THE MATTER OF A BILL INTITn.ED AN ACT TO AUTHORISE "THE CHRISTCHURCH GAS, COAL, AND COKE COMPANY (LIMITED") TO BREAK TP STREETS AND BRIDGES, AND TO LAY DOWN AND PLACE PIPES, CONDUITS, AND SERVICE PIPE 3, AND TO MAKE AND CONSTRUCT OTHER WORKS FOR SUPPLYING THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH AND SUBURBS

WITH GAS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JIN application is intended to bo made at the next 606sion of the General Assembly of New Zealand for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise " The Chrietohurch Gae Coal and Coke Company (Limited ") incorporated under the provisions of the Joint Stock Companios , Act 1860 to Break up Streets and Bridges and to Lay Down and Place Pipes Conduits and Service Pipes and to Make and Construct Other Works for supplying the City of Christchurch and 'suburbs with gas and for other purposes relating thereto and to the objects for which the said company has been established.

Copies of the Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office on or before the commencement of the session. It ie intended to apply for the following powers on behalf of the Company that is to say— The Company under such euperintendence ao ie hereinafter speciGod may open and break up the soil and pavement of the several streets and bridges within the limits of this Act and may open and break up any sewers drains or . tunnele within or under such streets and bridges and lay down and place within the same limits "pipes conduits service pipes and other works and from time to iirae repair alter or remove the same and also make any sewers that may be necessary for carrying off the washings and waste liquids which may arise in the making of the gas and for the purposes aforesaid may remove and use all earth and materials in and under such streets and bridges and may in such streets erect any pillars lampa and other works and do all other acts which the Company shall from time to time deem necessary for supplying gas within the limits hereinafter mentioned doing as little damage as may be in the execution of the power hereby granted and making compensation for any damage which may be done in the execution of such powers. That the Company may from time to time enter into any contract with any person for lighting or supplying with gas any public or private buildings or for providing any person with pipes burners meters and lamps and for the repair thereof and may also from time to time enter into any contract with the Christchurch City Council Road Board or other persons having the control of any of the streets within the limits aforesaid for lighting the same or any of them with gas and for providing such Council Road Board or persons with lamps lamp-posts burners and pipes for such purpose and for the repairs thereof in such manner and upon such terms as shall be agreed upon between the Company and tha said Council Road Board or other persons. That the Company may let for hire any meter for ascertaining the quantity of gas consumed or supplied and any fittings for the gas 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 eums due to the Company for gas and such meters and fittings ehall not be subject to distr«se for rent of the premises where the same may be used nor to be taken in execution under any process 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 lighted with gae supplied by the company in order to inspect the meters I fittings and works for regulating the supply of gas and for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of gas consumed or supplied and if any person hinder such officer as aforesaid from entering and making such inspection as aforesaid at any reasonable time he ehall for every such offence forfeit to the Company a sum not exceeding five pounds. That if any person supplied with gas negleot to pay the rent due for the same to the Company the Company may stop the gas from entering the premises of such person by cutting off the eervice pipe or by such means as the Company shall think fit and recover the rent due from auch person together with the expense of cutting off the gas and the cost 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 cut off and take away the supply of gas from any house building or premises under the provisions of this Act the Company their agents or workmen after giving forty-eight hours previous notice 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 remove and carry away any pipe meter fittings or other works the property of the Comi pany. The Company may make bye-laws or regulations provided the same shall not be repugnant to this Act or to the Municipal Corporations Act 1867 or to any bye-law or regulation which may now or hereafter be made thereunder or to any Road Board Act or Ordinance of the General Assembly or of the Province of Canterbury 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 five pounds for the breach of any bye-law or regulation of the Comply.