Supreme Court Sittings, 1954

WE, five of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in us by the Judicature Act 1908, hereby appoint that during the year 1954 sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases and causes under the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1928 shall be held for the respective judicial districts hereinafter mentioned at the Supreme Court House or the Courthouse, as the case may be, at the places hereinafter specified, commencing at the times hereinafter mentioned; and further appoint that sittings in banco and in Chambers shall be held as hereinafter provided; and do hereby make for each judicial district the further rules following:

NORTHERN JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Auckland
Tuesday, 2 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Tuesday, 4 May,
Tuesday, 20 July,
Tuesday, 12 October,

HAMILTON JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Hamilton
Monday, 8 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Monday, 10 May,
Monday, 26 July,
Monday, 18 October,

TARANAKI JUDICIAL DISTRICT
New Plymouth
Monday, 15 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Monday, 17 May,
Monday, 16 August,
Monday, 15 November,

GISBORNE JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Gisborne
Tuesday, 16 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Tuesday, 18 May,
Tuesday, 17 August,
Tuesday, 16 November,

WANGANUI JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Wanganui
Monday, 1 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Monday, 3 May,
Monday, 2 August,
Monday, 1 November,

WELLINGTON JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Wellington
Monday, 1 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Monday, 3 May,
Monday, 2 August,
Monday, 1 November,

Palmerston North
Monday, 1 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Monday, 3 May,
Monday, 2 August,
Monday, 1 November,

Napier
Monday, 1 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Monday, 3 May,
Monday, 2 August,
Monday, 1 November,

NELSON JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Nelson
Tuesday, 2 March, at 10.30 a.m.
Tuesday, 6 July,
Tuesday, 23 November,

Blenheim
Tuesday, 9 March, at 10.30 a.m.
Tuesday, 13 July,
Tuesday, 30 November,

CANTERBURY JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Christchurch
Tuesday, 2 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Tuesday, 4 May,
Tuesday, 3 August,
Tuesday, 26 October,

Timaru
Tuesday, 16 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Tuesday, 18 May,
Tuesday, 10 August,
Tuesday, 9 November,

WESTLAND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Greymouth
Monday, 22 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Monday, 28 June,
Monday, 15 November,

OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Dunedin
Tuesday, 2 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Tuesday, 4 May,
Tuesday, 27 July,
Tuesday, 19 October,

Invercargill
Tuesday, 23 February, at 10.30 a.m.
Tuesday, 25 May,
Tuesday, 17 August,
Tuesday, 16 November,

SITTINGS IN BANCO AND CHAMBERS
Sittings of the Court in banco will be held at the Courthouse, AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON, CHRISTCHURCH, and DUNEDIN, every Wednesday, at 10.30 o'clock in the forenoon, except during vacation or in the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business. Sittings in Chambers will be held at the Judge's Chambers in the Courthouse, CHRISTCHURCH and DUNEDIN, every Tuesday and Friday, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and at AUCKLAND and WELLINGTON every Friday, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, except during vacation or in the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business. Sittings in banco and in Chambers at other times and in vacation, in respect of urgent business, may be held at such times and places as may suit the convenience of the Judge. In all other cities and towns in which sittings of the Court are held, such business in banco and in Chambers as the Judge shall allow may be disposed of in the course of these sittings, at such days and hours as the Judge may appoint.

PROVISIONS AS TO HOLIDAYS
If any of the days above appointed for sittings shall be a public holiday, the sittings shall commence on the first day after the day so appointed which is not a holiday. It shall be lawful for any one or more Judges of the Supreme Court to order that the Supreme Court and the offices thereof at any place shall be closed for any public or proclaimed holiday in the district.

Given under our hands at Wellington, this 28th day of October 1953.
A. FAIR, A.C.J.
K. M. GRESSON, J.
J. D. HUTCHISON, J.
E. P. HAY, J.
P. B. COOKE, J.
Approved in Council—
30th November 1953.
T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Releasing Land from the Provisions of Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936 (Mohaka Development Scheme)

PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936, the Board of Maori Affairs hereby revokes, so far as it effects the land described in the Schedule hereto, a certain notice dated the 29th day of September 1933, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 69 of 5 October 1933 at page 2482, whereby the provisions of subsection (3) of section 522 of the Maori Land Act 1931 (now Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936) were applied to, inter alia, the said land.

SCHEDULE
All that area of land in the Tairawhiti Maori Land Court District containing 25 acres 0 roods 28 perches, more or less, called or known as Waihua B 1 Block (formerly known as Waihua lc 12).

Dated at Wellington, this 8th day of December 1953.
For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs—
M. SULLIVAN,
Assistant Secretary, Department of Maori Affairs.
(M.A. 64/5)

Releasing Land from the Provisions of Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936 (Okaiawa Development Scheme)

PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936, the Board of Maori Affairs hereby revokes a certain notice dated the 25th day of May 1949, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 33 of 2 June 1949 at page 1300, whereby the said land known as Waokena Section 255A 1 Block, containing 141 acres 3 roods 24 perches, more or less, situate in Block X, Hawera Survey District, was declared to be subject to the provisions of Part I of the Maori Land Amendment Act 1936.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of December 1953.
For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs—
M. SULLIVAN,
Assistant Secretary, Department of Maori Affairs.
(M.A. 65/10; D.O. 5/53)