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                    [0] => These application files contained the documentation relating to persons applying for mining privileges in the Riverton Warden's Court.
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            [name] => Riverton Application files
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	From 2010, the Dunedin Branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists listed individual applications up to 1900 by name for access on Archway. Applications after 1900 are accessible through the Application and Mining Privilege Registers created by each Warden's Court. Applications were grouped together, rather than being separated out by type (tail races, water races, residence sites, etc.).
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	These files contained all the documentation relating to applications for mining privileges registered at the Riverton Warden's Court.  Applications had to be filed on forms prescribed in regulations issued under Mining Act 1877 and its successors.  The following is a list of application types - 

	

		Application for Licence for Tail-race (or Main Tail-race)
	

		Application for Certificate of Protection
	

		Application for Licence for residence-site (or Specified Business-site)
	

		Application for Water-race
	

		Application for Licence for a Claim
	

		Application for Licence for a Dam
	

		Application for Amalgamation of Claims
	

		Application to Surrender Mining Privilege absolutely


	The application files can contain some or all of the following items -

	

		Plan showing extent of application
	

		Objections
	

		Correspondence
	

		Summons for Witness to appear
	

		Copy of Issued Licence
	

		Reports by Government Departments


	Once an application was lodged it was entered into the Register of Applications and then heard by the Warden.  If the application was successful then a licence was issued.  A number of the files also have copies of the registered licence attached to them.

	In 1930 the Orepuki Warden's Court was abolished and from then applications were heard in Riverton.

	 
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => 1880-1881 - No Numbering
1882-1899 - Annual Single Number
1899-1935 - Running Number
1936-1953 - Annual Single Number
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	Some records in this series are fragile and need to be handled with extra care. To protect the record, the method of copying will be at the discretion of Archives New Zealand.
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