WELLINGTON LAW SOCIETY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12854, 1 May 1905, Page 6

WELLINGTON LAW SOCIETY.

[by TKI.EOItAIMI. — PItESS ASSOCIATION.]

WI ; ton , Saturday. Thk annual report of the Wellington Law Society shows that there are now 187 practitioners in the district, an increase of 26 on last, year. The increase shown throughout the colony is 49, the number of solicitors practising this year 'beingJ7lo, as against, 661 in, 1904. Of this number, 12 are located in the North Island, and 298 in the South Island. The following are the numbers resident in the various districts : —Auckland, 136 ; . Canterbury, 109; (iisborne. 17; Hawke's Bay, 32; Marlborough, 7; Nelson. 16; Ota-go, 113; Southland, 29: Taranaki, 40; Wellington, 187; VVestland, 23. These figures show that there is one solicitor to every 1268 inhabitants, or one to every 317 male adults. Last, vear the figures were one to 1324, and one to 331 respectively. The report says that the inadequate salaries paid to Supreme Court judges lias been a subject of representation to the Government on several occasions of h(le. years by the law societies throughout the colony. The Government had taker'the matter up by increasing the salaries, but not, it, was thought, to an. extent commensurate with the importance of the position, and the duties performed. . Mr. Skerrett having reported that a difficulty was experienced by solicitors working up New Zealand cases for the Privy Conned in Loudon, . the position had been laid before the law societies of Auckland, Canterbury, find Otago, with a request that they would share in the expense of supplying a set of reports to the Lincoln's Inn Library. Replies favouring the proposal had been received from Otago and Canterbury, and the matter was to be dealt with by the council oc the New Zealand Law Society at its next meeting. .