NEW ELECTRIC LIGHTING CONTRACT,

New Zealand Mail, Issue 995, 27 March 1891, Page 29

NEW ELECTRIC LIGHTING CONTRACT,

A special meeting of the City Council was held on Tuesday to consider the proposed new electric lighting contract. There were present —The Mayor, Councillors Smith, Petherick, Cle<e, Moeller, Worth, Anderson, Parsons, Willeston and Harcourt. The contract was discussed at some length, each clause being considered seriatum. The heads of the new contract as agreed to by the Council are as follows : Part I.—As to existing contracts —I. Existing contracts hereby rescinded. 11. Mutual release of all claims under the existing contracts. 111. Ideinnity by the electrical syndicate in favour of the Corporation against any claims by the Gulcher Company or new Gulcher Company, or any persons or companies claiming through or under such companies respectively on account of the existing contracts. Part II. —New arrangements—lV. The Corporation shall within one month from and after the date of these presents lay dovn and connect with the 12in pipe in Featherston street a third 12in pipe, and will lead the same to and connect it with a third turbine to be set up by the syndicate in the Panama street station, and vvill connect the waste water from such third turbine with the existing waste water service from such station. The work to bedone in a workmanlike manner and good pipes and materials to be used. V. The cost of the foregoing works shall be borne by the electrical syndicate. VI. The 12in pipe from Featherston street and the two 12in pipes leading from same, and the waste water sources from the Panama Street Station are to be maintained by the Corporation, at the expense of the Corporation. Valves to bo maintained by the Corporation at the expense of the Company. VII. The syndicate shall erect a third dynamo and turbine at Panama street, and'shall drive the whole installation from that site only. VIII. The third service at Panama street is to be used only in case «.f, temporary breakdown of one of the other turbines or dynamos, and the three are not to be used at any one time without the consent of the City Surveyor. IX. The Manners street site to be taken over by the Corporation at a valuation, the Company surrendering the land to the Corporation, who shall have power to disconnect and take away water pipes and fittings at present laid down. X. The syndicate guarantee that their turbines are 40 h.p. actual and no more, and give a useful effect of at least 70 per cent, and that the same shall at all times bo kept in good repair and thorough working order, and of 40 h.p. actual and no more, and shall at all times give at least 70 per cent of useful effect. XI. Full power to Corporation to inspect machinery and to order repairs, and that the syndicate shall execute all repairs so ordered. XII. That the syndicate shall be entitled to use without payment all such water as shall be necessary to drive the installation in the manner provided for in this present deed with machinery of the kind hereinbefore specified, kept in such good repair and working order, giving such useful effect as aforesaid, and with the water laid on with such pipes as aforesaid, such water not to be used for any other purpose other than public lighting. XIII. The foregoing clause shall not authorise the use of any water by the syndicate not coming within the meaning of such clause ; and it shall not be compulsory upon the Corporation at any time to supply any water in excess of that so described ; but should the syndicate at any time desire any more water for public lighting, and the Council willing to supply the same, such additional water shall be paid- for by the syndicate [at such rates as shall be mutually agreed upon, at the rate for the time being in force for the water supplied by the Corporation for motive power, at the rate cf 2d per 1000 gallons']. XIV.A. It is distinctly understood that the Corporation does not undertake that any minimum or‘ average pressure shall be kept iu its mains, or undertake otherwise as to the pressure or flow of the .city water. XIVb. It is also understood that" the whole installation is to be driven with the vv ainui water supply alone, except in case of any burst cutting off the connection with that supply, and also except that the Karori supply shall be turned on for the first two hours after lighting, but at no time to be required after 10 o clock p.in. ; and not at any time to a greater extent than shall maintain an approximate pressure of 120Ibs to the square ioeh at the turbines. XV. The syndicate agrees to cause COO lumps of 20 candle power each, and the 500 candle-power lamp by Martin’s Fountain to be lit from sunsent till dawn at a brilliancy oE the full candle-power above-men-tioned, and that if the water supply agreed to be found by the Corporation as aforesaid shall prove insufficient for such purpose, then to find the additional power required at the expense of the syndicate. XVI. It shall be lawful for the Corporation at any time at its own expense to substitute for the 12in pipe in Panama street a pipe of 15in or any greater diameter. If a 15in pipe or’a larger one is so substituted l he syndicate agree not to use the Karori water at all. XVII. The Corporation may at any time or times during the contract period elect to cut off the water supply to all three or any two or one of the turbines and may require the syndica:e to find other suitable motive power. This shall be done by 12 hours’ notice in writing. In the event aforesaid the Corporation shall (in addition to the yearly sum pounds payable as in these presents mentioned) pay to the syndicate in respect of each lamp actuated by means of such other power as aforesaid the annual sum of L . The Corporation may also require this arrangement to be carried out for any time in a year, being not less than one month, and then revert to the water. XIX. Furthermore the syndicate undertakes, at any time upon 14 days’ notice in writing, to provide and actuate any additional lamps over and above the number herein provided for. The lamps to be erected by and at the expense of the syndicate, and to be actuated by suitable motive power to be agreed upon, and the Corporation to pay to the syndicate in respect of each lamp (at the same rate as for the others). XX. Three per cent of lamps going out to be considered a substantial part for the purpose of fine, penalty to be one shilling per lamp per night. XXII. Term of contract as in old contract. XXIII. The Corporation, in addition to giving the water supply, is to pay to the syndicate £—— per annum as for lamp of 20 c.p. actual, and the large lamp at Martin’s fountain. XXIV. Corporation right to purchase as in old contract. XXV. Corporation buildings and public library to be lighted gratis. XXVI. Private lighting clauses as in old contract. XXVII. All other provisions of old contract, and of conditions annexed thereto that are applicable to be incorporated into the new contract any necessary alterations being made therein. XXVIII. It is understood that the above clauses are in the nature only ot “Heads of Agreement,” and that the same

will require to be put into better shape, and to be expressed in more precise languago in the contract itself. A copy of the contract will be at once forwarded to Mr De Castro, representative of the Gulcher Co.