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1910. NEW ZEALAND.

GRANT OF THE HORAHORA WATER-POWER CONCESSION TO THE WAIHI GOLD-MINING COMPANY (TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE).

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the 6th July, 1910. Ordered, "Thai there be laid before this House the full terms and conditions under which the Horahora waterpower concession waa granted to the Waihi Gold-raining Company. , ' —(Mr. Poland.)

WATER-POWEB LICENSE. License granted to thb Waihi Gold-mining Compani (Limited) to use Wateb from the Waikato River, in the Auckland Provincial District, fok the Purpose ok generating Electricity.

Plunkkt, Governor. oi<d c i< in Council. At the Governmeni House, at Wellington, this :>iid clay of December, L 909. Present: His Excellency the Governor in Cotocil. Whereas by Par! XII of the Public Works Act, liio.s (hereinafter referred to as {, th;> principal Act "), it is provided thai power may be μ-ranted to use the water of any take, fall, river, or stream for the purpose of generating electricity, or for driving machinery, or for other purposes, and upon the conditions contained in such Act: And whereas by section five of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as "the amending Act "), it is, inter alia, provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in Part XII of the principal Act or in the Post and Telegraph Act, L9OB, the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council, grant to any person or body corporate a license to us;' water from any lake, fall, river, or stream, oT other source, for the purpose of generating electricity for electric light, mechanical power, or other uses, and to exercise in respeel of that purpose any of the powers and authorities specified in such section on thai behalf: And whereas it is by subsection five of section five of the amending Act also provided that the license shall be deemed to constitute a contract between the Licensee and His Majesty the King, and shall be enforceable by and against either party accordingly: And whereas the Waihi Gold-mining Company (Limited), of Waihi, in the Provincial District of .Auckland (who, with its successors and assigns, is and are hereinafter referred to as " the Licensee "), has made an application under the amending Act for the issue of a license empowering them to take from the Waikato River, in the Provincial District of Auckland (hereinafter referred to as " the said river "), as many sluice-heads of water as are theoretically capable of developing ten thousand horse-power at tha generating-station, hereinafter described, for the purpose of generating electricity at such generating-station, and transmitting such electricity to the district described in the Firsi Schedule hereto, and for authority to exercise the powers, rights, and privileges mentioned or set forth in section number five of the amending Act. or other purposes within the area of land described in the First Schedule hereto: And whereas it lias been agreed between the Licensee and His Majesty the King that this license shall bs issued subject to the terms, conditions, and obligations hereinafter specified and contained : Now. therefore, His Excellency the Governor of th? Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in him by the principal Act and the amending Act, and of every other power and authority enabling him in this behalf, and by and with the advice nnd consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby grant