LAND SALES COURT

Evening Star, Issue 25003, 23 October 1943, Page 6

LAND SALES COURT

REMUNERATION AND PROCEDURE FIXED DECLARATION OF PRiHSIPLE SOUGHT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 5>2. This Land Sales Court ißemuneratioii Regulations, which were gazetted today, fix the remuneration of each of the'members (other than the juilge) of the Land Sales Court at the rate ot £BOO a year, with provision for travelling, subsistence, and mileage allowances. The Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Regulations were also gazetted to-day. They call for the establishment of offices of the Land Sales Court at Auckland, Gisborne, Napier, New Plymouth, Wellington, Blenheim, Nelson, Hokitika, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Jnvercargill. After setting out how documents should be filed and prescribing the forms of claims for compensation and of application for consent, the regulations state that every appeal to the Land Saies Court from any order ot a Land Sales Committee is to be brought by a notice of motion iu a summary way, to bo tiled in the office of the court in which the order appealed from was hied. A copy of the notice of motion is to be served by the appellant on every person affected, and written submissions supporting or opposing the appeal may be filed and served by any party in the same manner as lor notice of motion on the appeal. Tlie regulations under the Act were considered at a special meeting to-day of the emergency executive of the Wellington branch of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand. In a subsequent statement the institute expressed the view that the regulations consisted mainly of details of the statements and declarations required iu submitting applications for consent to the sale, transfer, or lease of property and to claims for compensation. The regulations did not set out the principles under which the land sales committees were to carry out the provisions of the Act.

The statement added that it -was obviously very desirable that the methods and procedure to be followed by the committees in various parts of the Dominion should be unified and these detail's published at the earliest possible date.