WARDEN’S COURT

Northern Advocate, 13 June 1929, Page 3

WARDEN’S COURT

QUESTION OF COAL LEASR. RESERVED JUDGMENT DELIVERED. The Whangarei Warden's Court met yesterday, Mr J. H. Luxford, the Warden presiding, and giving his reserved judgment in the matter of the applications of William MeKinlay and E. A. Cunningham for coal leases over the same area of land at Hiknraugi. The application of MeKinlay was objected to by Cunningham on the grounds that he himself had marked out the grounds in question prior to MeKinlay making application to the Warden’s Court.

The Warden disallowed Cunningham’s objection,! on the grounds that las application had not been filed at the Warden’s Court within a reasonable time after marking the ground, and he had not complied with the requirements of the Coal Mines Act, in that he had failed to give due notice, of his application by advertising it in some newspaper circulating in the district. It had been proved tliat McTvinlay had complied with the requirements of the Act, and his application was recommended to the consent of the Minister of Mines, provided the consent to grant of application is filed at the Warden’s Court by the holder or holders of the L.I.P. title over the land in question, Cunningham’s application was refused, with costs amounting to £3 1/-.