Early Test of Free State Attitude to Privy Coucil

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 December 1929, Page 2

Early Test of Free State Attitude to Privy Coucil

MUSICAL PERFORMING RIGHTS. APPE Al. FROM DEC ISI OX OF SUPREME COURT. llcceived Thursday. fkLU) p.m. LONDON. Dec -I. The altitude of tin* Irish-Free Slate; towards the Privy Cou/vil i> iikeiv shortly U) be tested, owing Pi a peml-ii-.g appeal in which the Hr y Urban Council is concerned. Bray is a seaside resort near Dublin. During - a carnival n; T.)2’.1, the council’s band allegedly played selections from *‘Li ; c Time’’ and also an old fine' w;-!Vz. ‘‘Venus on Earth. ’’ The Performing flights Society brought an action for ah infringement ■ j' copyright and won its ease in the local court but the Supremo Court reversed the decision, hence the appeal to Privy Council. • On the motion for the adjournment in the Mouse of Commons, the Marquis of Hartington called attention to the right of British subjects overseas to appeal to the judicial enmmiftee of the Privy Council, in view of a statement by a Minister that the Irish Free State no longer intended to respect the jurisdiction of that final court. Lord Hartington hoped Mr MacDonald would make a decisive announcement of the matter.

Mr MacDonald, in replying, said appeal to the Privy Council was discussed at the Imperial Conference in 1!>26 and referred to the next Conference. The Government expected that if any Dominion Government desired to go beyond that open and unsettled position, it should communicate with the British Government.