THE COUNCIL.
; MAGISTRATES' COURTS BILL. r v.Wheii the- Council met'yesterday' the Hagis- ?■. trates'..Courts Amendment jUill was: considered • in Committee. • Section 3 provider that a defendant: shall :: nave three days after, the service of the'' sum- . • mons upon which to . file notice of intention to defend. The Hon. G. J. SMITH (Canterbury) questioned "whether . sufficient time had- been 'allowed. The ATTORNEY-GEXEIiAL said that in ■ / practice" the; proposal 'would' b'o . found to be satisfactory. • . • A new sob-clause ,was added to Clause 8 to ,;;the. , 'efferf : . : of ; claim y- ;;;or/,counterclaim -is,.in. but in. the iV: Eohedule'; "the .Cotirt' .-rnay' on,- such r terms as ii- r? 'costs .and -otherwise; as. it thinks fit order iy~ : that .farther particulars shall, bo given. • .iThe ; third reading Bill was ■ fixed tor to-day. - ; . SHIPPING AND SEAMEN BILL. The Shipping and Seamen Bill, the Dcsi'sna- - H?P\°i Districts Bill, and-the Land Settlement JiiJl- were'read s a .first- time.- and the , ; , readingslwero .fixed for ,to-day. ;• • Ihe. Council then adjourned.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 684, 8 December 1909, Page 5
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