Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1903. Notes and Comments.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVII, Issue 22693, 11 August 1903, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1903. Notes and Comments.

We learn from the New Zealand Mines Record that the Warden for the Hauraki Goldfields, who forwarded communications with reTransfers of ference to the re fe isResidence Sites tration of transfers

* of «übdivisions of residence sites, has been informed that the transfers should not be registered without the consent of the Warden. The usual practice must be followed, which requires the original license to be surrendered and fresh applications made for each subdivision of the original area. The Minister agrees with the contention of the Warden that a residence site license is a personal privilege conferred on the holder for residen tel purposes only, and that every person occupying aresidence area should hold a license direct from the Warden, and not a transfer of a portion of the area from the original licensee. Unless this is insisted on complications are sure to fellow. There was a case before the Department recently where transfers of an original area had been registered from time to tima since the issue of the original license in 1886 without reference to the Warden, and it was finally found that the only way by which the difficulties th®t had arisen in respect to the transfer could be solved was to require surrender of the original license and fresh applications to be made for each" eubdivision of the original area. IcVmaybe stated that this has. hitherto : ibeen the custom in the Ohinenmri Opldfield, but it was contended that the Mining Registrar at Waihi was . hound to register the transfer of a subdivision residence site from the licensee to another person for a valuable consideration without reference to the Warden. This the Mining Registrar refused to do, and his action i has been upheld by the Minister of Mines. •