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published in the New Zealand Gazette on the ninth day of March in the year aforesaid, certain Rules regulating the Practice and Procedure of Wardens’ Courts established under the said Act were made, and amongst other things it was by the ninth of the said Rules provided as follows:—“The parties in every complaint, action, and proceeding, shall appear and act personally or by a barrister or solicitor of the Supreme Court, or, in the absence of any barrister or solicitor, and by leave of the Warden, by an agent to be appointed by the plaintiff or defendant in writing.” And whereas it is expedient that further provisions should be made with respect to the manner in which parties may appear in Wardens’ Courts:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and in pursuance of the power and authority conferred on him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order that the Rule set forth in the Schedule hereto shall be a Rule regulating the Practice and Procedure of all Wardens’ Courts established or to be established under the said Act, and shall be taken and read as a proviso to the ninth of the said Rules published in the said “Gazette” of the ninth day of March last.

SCHEDULE.

Provided that the Warden of any Warden’s Court may, on being satisfied that any person is a fit and proper person to be registered as an Agent to act in such Court or behalf of parties in any such complaint, action, or proceeding, register such person as an Agent to appear and act at that Court for any such parties; and any person so registered may, so long as his name shall be on the Register kept at such Court, have the right, in the absence of a barrister or solicitor, to appear and act for any party without express or further permission from the Warden of the Court; but such registration may be cancelled at any time by the Warden acting at such Court on it being made to appear to him that such person has been guilty of misconduct; or is otherwise unfit to act for parties in such Court.

C. Hoos,
Chairman of the County Council.

SCHEDULE 1.

LOWER GREY DISTRICT.

Bounded on the Northward by the Grey River; on the Eastward by the Arnold River, to where the track to Lake Brunner strikes off from it; on the Southward by the Watershed, between Stillwater Creek and other Creeks running into the Grey and the New River, by a line running along the ridge between German Gully and the New River to Card’s Store, and on to the Teremakau at a point opposite line E.A., and by the Teremakau; and on the Westward by the Sea Coast, excepting the Town of Greymouth.

SCHEDULE 2.

GREENSTONE DISTRICT.

Bounded on the Northward by a line from opposite line E.A. to Card’s Store, by a line along the ridge between German Gully and the New River, by the Watershed between Stillwater Creek and other Creeks running into the Grey and the New River, and a line to where the track to Lake Brunner strikes off from the Arnold River; on the Eastward by Boundary of County to the Hurunui Saddle; and on the Southward and Westward by the Teremakau River.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, 13th Feb., 1869.

The under-mentioned Bye-Law and Certificate, addressed to the Chairman of the County Council by the Mayor of Greymouth, has been assented to by the Chairman, and is published in accordance with section 191 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.”

J. Heawood,
Chief Clerk.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

In exercise of the powers in that behalf delegated to me under “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” I hereby declare that the districts defined in the Schedules numbered 1 and 2 respectively are Wardens’ Districts within the meaning of the said Act, subject nevertheless to all the provisions in clause 33 of “The Regulations for the Sale, Letting, and Disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the County of Westland,” made by His Excellency the Governor on the 20th day of March, 1868, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, of the 21st day of March, 1868, No. 8.

Bye-Law of the Council of the Borough of Greymouth, made under and in pursuance of clause one hundred and eighty-one, part thirteen, of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.”