Advances to Settlers Act.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 December 1894, Page 4

Advances to Settlers Act.

The Government Advances to Settlers Act comes into operation this week. Regulations are indispensable of course, and these have been drawn up by the Public Trustee, and sent on to the Crown law officers for revision. It has been resolved by the Government that two superintendent valuers shall be appointed for each island—four in all—and we understand that Mr T. Kenuedy Macdonald is likely to be one of the superintendent valuers for the North Island. In addition there are to be county valuers, who will be paid by a fixed scale of fees. The superintendent valuers, besides making independent valuations, will, where practicable, supervise and report to the Lending Board on the valuations made by the county valuers. Government solicitors are also to be appointed in the several centres of the colony. It will be their exclusive function to perform all the legal or conveyancing work in connection with the Government Advances to Settlers Act, and also the law work of the several Government departments, with the exception of those' appertaining to Crown Prosecutorships, which are not to be interfered with. In the meantime they will be paid fees, but later on, after matters have been fully adjusted so that all the Government work in the different centres may devolve upon them, they will become salaried officers.—N.Z. Times.