THE GAZETTE
OF THE
fain Surkttr uf Jrdanir,
Vol. XXX!, No. 9]
MARCH, 1938
:
FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.
3rd February.
Twenty members present.
Land
Acts.
A
letter was read in reply from the
President of the High Court stating that the
rooms at present in use for sittings of the
Appeal Tribunal in Upper Merrion Street are
about to be converted into a proper court
room.
24th February.
Twenty-two members present.
Seanad Election.
The Council selected Mr. Thomas W.
Delany (President of the Society), of Long
ford, and Mr. John J. Horgan (an Extra
ordinary Member of the Council), of Cork, as
candidates for election, on the Cultural and
Educational Panel,
as members of
the
Seanad.
High Court on Circuit.
The President reported to the Council that
he had an interview with the Chief Justice
and the President of the High Court in
reference to the hearing of appeals before the
High Court about to go on Circuit.
Registration of Title.
Mr. Mayne submitted to the Council draft
of amendments of the Local Registration of
Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, which
in
his
capacity of member of the Local Registration
of Title Rules Committee, nominated by the
Council, he had received from the Registrar
of Titles. A special committee of the Council
was appointed to assist Mr. Mayne in con
sidering these amendments, and to consider
other amendments suggested by Mr: Mayne
relating to registration of deeds.
Carbon Typing Paper.
A letter was read from a firm of solicitors
drawing attention to the inferior quality of
the carbon typing paper now being supplied
in Eire. It was resolved to draw the attention
of the Minister for Industry and Commerce
to the inferior qualities both of carbon paper
and of ribbons for typing purposes being now
supplied in Eire, and to the excessive prices
being charged for both articles.
OBITUARY.
MR. JAMES J. BLAKE, Solicitor, died on the
13th February, 1938, at Cork.
Mr. Blake served his apprenticeship with
the late Mr. Richard Hayes, Cork; was
admitted
in Trinity Sittings,
1919, and
practised at 59 South Mall, Cork.




