148 PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

6. The above forms shall be kept by the Registering Officer, and shall be supplied free of charge to intending applicants.

7. The applicant shall present his application made and completed in the form or to the effect herein-before provided, and the same shall be received by the Registering Officer, and by him safely kept; and on the miner’s right produced with the said application he shall make and sign a memorandum in the form following:—

Registered pursuant to “The Miners’ Rights Extension Act, 1872,” to take effect in the Province of [Naming it].

Dated this day of , 18__.

Registering Officer.

8. The applicant shall pay to the Registering Officer the sum of two shillings and sixpence as fee for the registration of his miner’s right, and every such fee shall be prepaid, and before the making of the memorandum in the last clause provided for; and no registration shall be complete or effectual until the making and signing of such memorandum; and no person shall be entitled to have a right registered in the Province in which it was issued.

9. The Registering Officer shall keep a book in which shall be entered in alphabetical order the names of the persons registering their miners’ rights, and such book shall contain the following particulars:—

Name of person whose right is registered, his occupation and residence.
Date of registration of right; Province and place in which right issued.
Date of issue.

10. Any person shall be entitled to search the book directed to be kept as aforesaid, on payment of a fee of one shilling to the Registering Officer for each name searched against:

Provided that every officer of police or other officer of the General Government, or of the Government of the Province of Nelson or of Westland, shall be entitled to make any search required by the duties of his office without payment of any fee.

11. All fees paid to the Registering Officers under these Regulations, shall be paid into the Public Account of the Colony.

12. These Regulations are only in force in the Provinces of Nelson and Westland, in accordance with the provisions of the said Act.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued at Wellington, this 15th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Licensing Courts for the Licensing Districts of Coaldale and Paroa appointed.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Licensing Act, 1873, Amendment Act, 1874,” it is enacted that every Licensing Court shall hold its meetings in the Court House used as a Court House by the Resident Magistrate or Court of Petty Sessions in the Licensing District, or if there be no such Court House in such district, then the Court shall hold its meetings at such place as may from time to time be appointed by the Governor: And whereas there is no such Court House in either the Coaldale or Paroa Districts: Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby appoint the Racecourse Hotel, Coaldale, and the Paroa Hotel, Paroa, to be the places at which the Licensing Courts for the Licensing Districts of Coaldale and Paroa respectively shall hold their meetings.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies.