WARDEN’S COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1923, Page 3

WARDEN’S COURT.

THURSDAY. JULY 2n-i. i B'-ii-re AA';.rd-'-ii -Meld, urn, E*,,.. s.AI.) KI'AiARA LI SINi.SK. K. K. Sav. iiiillmg Guy. (Air Alurd cell i ci-rt ific.-ife of re.-.erva t ion * for timber area. Granted: subject to conditions. Midland Sawmill toy. (Ah A 1 unlocli) application for ivuc-asil of sawmill area. Granted. Kum-'ra S:m milling Coy. (.Mr Alur--111'<• ii) lor ii-ui.-wal of ini) limber rvt-r----vat ions.—(J ra n led.

d. (’. Alaltroy and Co. (All Aluidoeli) for lciicwal of i line fiml.oi- reservations. Granted. G. I). Wilson (Mr Murdoch) for prospecting lii'cime 2D acres, was withdraw n. Trivmakau Timber Coy. (Air Alurdot li) for siirrcmh-r of timber license. Adjourned for two weeks. HOKITIKA I! I LIN ESS. I.inkhtfer Siticing Syndicate (Air l’ilkiiigtnu) for i rotectiiiii was withdrawn, work liming been resumed. Whik-y Sawmills bid. (Air Alurdcch) lor surrender oi !in n-<- and for change of titles.—Adjourned for two weeks. .SLIT I-'Ull I-’ORFKI’ITRE. N. X i-'liol.-on (Air .Murdoch) v. I’lihlir Tin-tee (Air We!L) suit for forfeiture ol claim at Kaneiri Forks (partly heanl :u last silting). .Mr Wells held (hat uiit'j-r section bin; of Ihe Alining Act, tile ijiu-sitou of logging could- not be gone into, except in a question of fraud and this was not involved in this ease. |b- held that a line in lieu of forfeit me would ample meet the case, and left the nuuter entirely in tile hands of the Warden. The Public ’I ms tees "as simply acting for a poor family in Christ church. A!r Murdoch said the Public Trustee was set no to be the adviser of ilupoor and indigent. At t in- last sitting the Warden had state,l that the declaration pul in by tile agent Dr the Public Tru-Uc should not have been made, as it was not correct, and the witness had nothing to say. All' Alm(1; ;c h v cut on to allege fraud ill the making of the declaration to the application. so that the section quoted did not apply in the present case and asked fur forfeiture to he decreed. The Warden in giving judgment, stat-e-1. on Bth. Alnr.-k an application by till' Public Trustee by the Hokitika agent for a license for a. claim was granted by the Court. Supporting that application a declaration was put in, j„ which certain statements were made. One of them was that the claim bad la-en properly marked out in accordance with the law. Evidence had been brought forward showing this was untrue. His Worship sa’-d he thought there was no doubt that the license was issued by the Court on the fraudulent representation of that declaration. The officer of the Public Trustee was responsible for tile contents of that declaration'. He bold that the o’iginnl license was issued through the fraud of the applicant. Ho therefore declared the license for the claim to be forfeited. Costs were allowed plaintiff’s witnesses -10 s; court costs lo; counsel's fee -8-ls: total i’o Us.