New Zealand Gazette – 1892 – No. 98

Page 1663

✨ Appointments and Rules

Dec. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1663

It shall be the duty of the Registrar of the Court in the District of Wellington forthwith to cause such application to be printed in the New Zealand Gazette in the English language, and in the Kahiti in the Maori language; and, if the land mentioned in the said application is situate in the district of the Registrar of the Native Land Court of Auckland or Gisborne, the said Registrar of the District of Wellington shall forward one of the duplicate applications, together with copies for distribution of the Gazette or Kahiti, or of an extract therefrom, containing the application so printed as aforesaid, to the Registrar of the district in which such land is situate. The other duplicate application shall be recorded and retained in the office of the said Registrar of the District of Wellington.
It shall be the duty of the Registrar in whose district such land is situate to forward by post a copy of such Gazette or Kahiti, or extract as aforesaid, to each person who appears by such application to be interested in the subject-matter of the inquiry, and to all such other persons, if any, as appear by the records of the Court to have any interest in the land intended to be affected by the said application.
Subject to any special directions that may be given in any case, every notice of a sitting of the Court to hold an inquiry under the said Act (1892) shall be inserted in the Gazette in the English language, and in the Kahiti in the Maori language, not less than six clear weeks before the day appointed for the sitting of the Court as aforesaid, and copies of such Gazette or Kahiti, or extract therefrom, containing such notice, shall be forwarded to the same persons in the same manner as prescribed by Rule 111 for the forwarding of copies of applications.
If the inquiry is not held by the Chief Judge, it shall be the duty of the presiding Judge of the Court at the close of such inquiry to forward to the Chief Judge, at his office in Wellington, the evidence taken upon such inquiry, duly signed as required by section 5 of the said Act (1892), together with the certificate if such certificate be given, and the reason for refusing the certificate if such certificate be refused, and all deeds, documents, plans, or other exhibits that have been received in evidence.
Any application to the Chief Judge to refer any matter or question for further inquiry or for further consideration, in pursuance of section 14 of the said Act (1892), must be in writing, and must state the grounds upon which that application is made.
All notices or documents required by Rules 111 and 112 to be forwarded by post shall be forwarded by registered letter, and addressed to the person for whom the same is intended at his last known place of abode, unless a Judge of the Court shall, for good cause shown, direct that a notice be given in some other way.
A record shall be kept of the names of the persons to whom registered letters are forwarded in accordance with the provisions of these rules, together with the dates on which such letters are posted.
The fees set out in the Schedule of Fees hereto are hereby fixed as the fees to be paid upon proceedings taken under the said Act (1892).

SCHEDULE.
FEES. £ s. d.
On filing application for inquiry .. .. 1 0 0
Hearing in Court, per day, each party .. .. 1 0 0
On signing certificate .. .. .. 1 0 0

As witness my hand this second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

H. G. SETH-SMITH, Chief Judge.

Approved in Council, 14th November, 1892.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th December, 1892.