SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

IX CHAMBERS. >■ ' QUESTION OF DEDICATION. 'A matter of importanco to local bodies came up for consideration boforo Mr. Justice Cooner yesterday, afternoon. , This was a summons 011 behalf of Wm. Howell and other owners, of land at Paraparaumu, calling upon the District Land Registrar at Wellington to -substantiate and uphold the grounds for his refusal to register an .instrument under the LanS^Transfer'Act,by which the owners in question sought to dedicate to the public certain lands at Paraparaumu for the purposes of public roads. The Registrar had declined to register tho document on the ground chiefly. that although in-form-'a''dedication-to tho public it had not been accepted by the local authority, the Eutt County Council, and that the provisions of. tho Land' Transfer Act required that, every -instrument tendered for registration should have' endorsed upon it i a certificate of its correctness, signed "by tho party claiming under or in resuect of it, or by some solicitor or land broker employed by. that party, such certificate in the present caso having been signed by the solicitors for the. transferers, i.e., tho persons who purported to'dedicate the. land for roads. , Several interesting Questions under tho rccont legislation with vcspect to tho dedi-cation-of roads under the Public Work's Act, 1905, and as to.,tho registration of instruments under tho Land Transfer Act, 1885, wero disctisscd. Eventually His Honour reserved judgment, • remarking that" tho - matters involved were of -groat importance. ■ ■ " Mr. Pauling appeared on behalf of tho District. Land Registrar, and Mr. Gray for the transferers.