AUCKLAND LAW SOCIETY.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 55, 5 March 1921, Page 5

AUCKLAND LAW SOCIETY.

RECORD OF A BUSY TEAR.

'The largest stop-work meeting ever he'd by this union," , declared Mr. H. P•Richmond yesterday afternoon when, as, president of the Law Society, lie wesj faced by about I'oO learned friends who attended the annual meeting of the society at the Magistrate's C-ourt. Tlie j annual report circulated at the meeting, indicated that thfs attrrrdsnee was representative of 33fl solicitors and 133 barristers practising in the Auck'and Province, the number having been swelled during the year by the admission of lf>j barristers and 4<> solicitors. The report' chronicled a particularly busy year. marked 'by two jreneral meeting and 13; council meeting, action having be-n' taken to make representations regards? the dangerous congestion of work at the Auckland Deeds and Land Transfer Offices and at the Supreme Court, and regarding the necessity for increasing the Supreme Court accommodation. Borne improvement had result el in Deeds offices where increased accommodation was now being provided. The suggested purchase of a vacant site ad-; joining the Supreme Court building for] an extension of the building was still | under consideration by the Justice Department. Tliere was reason for hope that the congestion of work at the. Supreme Court would be overtaken by means of two judges taking up their residence in Auckland. A number ol complaints had been investigated, pr v i pcedinge under the Law Practitioners I Act having been taken in one case. T <?. I council had made repre-entatt.ins re-] I speoting a refund of stamp dut\, Tli«*j I caused to hp arranged a. uniform scale iof bjoticv charges, and had intTodueed a .new method of notification of the grant, 'of probate.-. It had also raa'le a further I protect ag-ainst the delay in the distri- ! bution of the statutes. The finance of ; the society was reported k> he found. I r.nd •steps w*re being taken to extend j fhe libraries in Auckland. AVhangare-i I and WHiiikatatiP. and to institute a ! branch at Tauranpa. The report was unanimously adopted. ' The fallowing officers were elected for thn ensuing rear:—President. Mr. TI. P. I Richmond; vice-president, Mr. J. K. I Alexander: hon. treasurer, Mr. A. E. i Skelton: auditor. Mr. X. <A. Thithie; j members of council. Messrs. R. McVea^'h, '■■ A. IT. .Tohnrtone. F. L. West. ,T. B. '.Ici'nnsion, R. P. Towle, and Dr. Bamford; delegates to the New Zealand Council, Messrs MeVeagli, Richmond, and Bam ford; memibers of the Council of Law Reporting, Dr. 'Barn ford and Mr. E. MoVeag'h. j An accident occurred this morning in Dominion Road. Mrs. 0. Donnovan. aged (15 years, whose daughter resides at New l_,ynn, had the misfortune to be knocked down by a horse that had bolted. Besides being shaken she was injured on her right leg, and her left [wrist was factored.