Gazette Notices. IN the matter of a Bill intituled, an Act to authorise " The Now Zealand Elec- • trical Syndicate (Limited)," to break up or cross over streets, roads, rivers, and bridges, and to place mains, service lines, \nd & distributing mains either above or below ground, and to lay down and place pipes, conduits, and service pipes, and to srect pillars, arches, or poles, and to make, construct, and do other works and things Cor supplying the city of Auckland and suburbs with electrical energy. Notice is hereby given that application is intended to be made at the next session of the General Assembly of New Zealand [or leave to bring in a Bill to authorise " The New Zealand Electrical Syndicate (Limited)," hereinafter referred to as " the Company," to place mains, service lines, and distributing mains either above or below ground, and to lay dowir-and place pipes, conduits, and service pipes, and to erect 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 purposes relating thereto, and to the objects for which the said Company has been established. Copies of the Bill will be deposited at the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders, on or before the commencement of thesession, and may also be had upon application to Messrs. Bell, Gully, and Izard, solicitors, Wellington, Agents for the Bill, or from the undersigned ' _ It is intended to apply for the following powers on behalf of the Company, that is to St The Company under the superintendence of the persons having the control thereof respectively, may open and break up or cross over the soil and pavement of the several streets, roads, rivers, and bridges within the limits of this Act, and may open and break up or cross over any sewers, drains, or tunnels, within or under such streets, fivers, and bridges, arid 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, niter, or remove the same, and for the purposes aforesaid may remove and use all- earth and materials in and under such streets, rivers, and and may in or on such streets and bridges crect any pillars, arches, or poles, lamps and other works, and do all other acts and things which the Company shall from time to time deem necessary for supplying electrical energy within the limits hereinafter mentioned, doing as 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. That the Company may from time to time enter into any contract with any person for lighting by means of electricity or supplying with electrical energy any public or private buildings, or for providing any person ivithpipes, service, mains, transformers, accumulators,conductors, burners, meters,and lamps, and for the repair thereof, and may also from timo to time enter into any contract with the Mayor and Corporation of Auckland or the City Council thereof or other persons or body corporate having the control of any of the streets, roads, rivers, or bridges within the limits aforesaid for lighting the 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, and pipes, mains, transformers, accumulators or conductors for such purpose and for the repairs thereof in such a manner and upon such terms as shall be agreed upon between the Company and the said Mayor and Corporation, City Council, or other persons or body corporate, and the maximam charge to be made for the actual amount of energy supplied to any consumer, or for the electrical quantityscontained in any such, supply, shall be at or according to the rates specified in this Act or in the schedules 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 i in money as shall be agreed upon between I the Company and any person to whom the , same may bo so let, and such remuneration | shall bo recoverable in the same manner as the rents or sums due to the Company for electrical energy supplied, and such meters 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 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 supplied by the Company with electrical energy, in order to inspect tho meters, fittings, transformers, accumulators, and other instruments or things, and for regulating the supply thereof, and for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of current 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 time, 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 rent due for the same to the Company, the Company may stop such current or energy from entering the premises of such person by switching the same off or by such means as the Company shall think fit, and may recover tho rent due from such person together with tho expense of switching off the current or energy and tho costs ot recovering the rent by action in any court of law of competent jurisdiction. 1 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 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 tho hours of nine in the forenoon and four in the afternoon, and remove and carry away any main switch, transformer, accumulator, meter, fittings or other things, being the property of the Company. The Company may make by-laws or regulations provided the same shall not be repugnant to this Act 01* to the Electric Lines Act, ISS-l, or to the Municipal Corporations Act, 1880, or to any Statutory Amendment thereof, or to any Road Board or County Act of the General Assembly, or to any by-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 by-law or regulation of the Company. Tho 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 Parnell, the Borough of Newmarket, the Borough of Devonport, and all lands lying within a radius of five miles from the Auckland City Market. Such works as aforesaid are intended, to bo made and maintained wholly in the counties of Waitemata, Eden, and Manukau, and through the City of Auckland, the Boroughs of Parnell, Newmarket, and Devonport, and the whole or portions of the Mount Eden, Eden Terrace, Mount Roskill, Epsom, Remuera, and One-Tree Hill Road Districts. Dated this 13th day of April, 1891. • HESKETH & RICHMOND, Solicitors for the said Bill.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8541, 15 April 1891, Page 8
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