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reduplication of work done in the Registry, but without the
keeping of such accounts the present system affords no
effective safeguard as the Treasurer has no means of determin-
ing whether the sum which he is directed to pay is in fact
payable to the person named in the "Direction".
The present system is cumbrous and involves labour in the
Treasury and delay and inconvenience for litigants without
affording any commensurate safeguard.
It is considered desirable that that payments into court
should be dealt with in the manner in which they now are,
but that payments out of court should be made by the
Registrar direct to the persons entitled thereto, the
Treasurer being duly informed by the Registrar of all
payments into and out of court. The Colonial Treasurer, the Auditor and the Registrar of the Supreme Court are desirous
of making this change in procedure, which is to be in accord
with that which prevails in the County Courts in England.
(Sd.) C. G. Alabaster,
April, 1931.
Attorney General.