The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 5 (September 1, 1932)

Protecting the Department's Rights

Protecting the Department's Rights.

The Land Office may be called the “Registration Office” in respect of railway lands and leases, and in the Department's interests it is essential that any such dealings should be submitted for its consent. It is also in the lessees' interests that a complete record should be kept for the protection of those relying on titles to Railway land.

When documents concerning dealings are sent forward for the consent of the Government Railways Board they are carefully scrutinised to see that the rights of the Department are not in any way interfered with. In the course of a year many such documents are certified as having the Department's interests fully protected.