"LAW OF GOLD MINING IN NEW ZEALAND."

Otago Witness, Issue 2673, 7 June 1905, Page 27

"LAW OF GOLD MINING IN NEW ZEALAND."

By Eobeet Ghkison, Barrister and Solicitor.

We have perused this volume with, pleasure and with profit. It is the first book published in New Zealand dealing exclusively with mining law, and we fancyit will deservedly remain the standard authority on the subject for many years

I -to come. Mr Gilkison has had a varied and practical experience on the Otago goldfields, and the ripe fruits of that experience are now presented to the public and the legal profession in this volume of over 300 pages. We have examined the book critically on various knotty points of mining law and practice, and have in each case -found our author thoroughly reliable and up-to-date alike in his law and facts.

The writer has divided his work into three main departments: — (1) A series of 10 introductory chapters dealing clearly and fully with questions of special interest to mining practitioners — e.g., abandonment, forfeiture, priority, etc., etc. ; (2) the full text of "The Mining Act, 1898," and its amendments, -with full notes' and legal decisions following the various sections thereof, and side references to the regulations; and (3) an -elaborate and careful index (with cross references) to the various Mining Acts and regulations, as well as to the text of the treatise itself. This arrangement of the subject appears to us in itself convenient, and renders the book of value alike to the practising lawyer and to that large class of the community in various distriots of the colony which is vitally interested in mining matters. The index to the acts, regulations, and treatise haa been most -exhaustively compiled, and should prove of especial interest to the lay mining man, as well as indispensable to his legal adviser. We congratulate Mr Gilkison on his compendious and scholarly* work, and we trust that his example may stimulate some of his legal brethren to give to the community the results of their professional studies in other technical "branches of the Jaw of England as administered in New Zealand. We may add that "Gilkison on the Law of Gold Mining " is ide'dicated Ihy permission.) to Air Justice Williams, and €hat its printing «,na binding reflect credit on the publishers— the Otago Daily Times and Witness Company.

W. C. M.