LANDS DEPARTMENT OFFICE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18902, 18 January 1927, Page 7

LANDS DEPARTMENT OFFICE.

REPLY TO TIMARU CLAIM. At last night's meeting of the Timaru Borough Council, a letter was received from the Minister for Stamp Duties (the Hon. Mr Downie Stewart) in regard to a Land and Deeds Registration office at Timaru, stating that ■particularly at the present time he could not see his way clear to constitute a Land and Deed Registration Office for South Canterbury. To acoede to the suggestion would entail very great expense. A new district would have to bo defined and copies of hundreds of maps would have to be made, and copies of thousands of deeds and instruments would have to be made from the Christchurch registers and bound into new volumes. The provision of a suitable fireproof building for housing all the new registers, maps, plans, documents, etc., and office ac* eommodation for the registrar and his staff would be a permanent charge on the Treasury. The South Canterbury Law Society, the Pleasant Point Town Board, Timaru Harbour Board, the Temnka Borough Council, the Geraldine Borough Council, and the Levels County Council wrote supporting the constitution of an office at Timaru. Th* correspondence was weeived.