COURT OF REVIEW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 3

COURT OF REVIEW.

CO-ORDINATING POLICY. SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES. Several aspects of the working of the Court of Review, established under the Rural Mortgagors' Final Adjustment Act, were referred to this morning by the Minister of Justice, Mr. Cobbe, who is visiting Auckland. The Minister said that the Court, ovei which Mr. Justice Johnston presides, was sworn in on May 13, and held its initial meeting immediately afterward, when the question of procedure was discussed. The Court had not yet begun its active, duties, and the Judge was at present taking the current Supreme Court sittings at Gisborne.

"As the duties of the Court, until the expiry of the budgetary periods provided for in the Act, will be confined mainly to dealing with appeals against the granting of stay orders, it is proposed, in terms of section 5, that the Court shall take over jurisdiction under the Mortgagors and Tenants' Relief Act in respect of all rural mortgages throughout the Dominion," said the Minister. "This should make" for uniformity of policy and relieve other Courts generally from the extra pressure of work arising under the mortgage relief legislation."

The remuneration and travelling allowances of members arc .governed by regulations which have ' now been gazetted. Each member is to bo paid £800 a year, to begin from the date on which he takes the oath or affirmation of office. Each member, while travelling on the business of the Court and absent from headquarters at night, is allowed an hourly travelling allowance for the time in which ho is absent, at the rate of £1 10/ a day of 24 hours, reckoned from the time he loaves headquarters. When a member travels but returns to headquarters on the same day, actual expenses only will be paid.