DOMINIONS AND LEAGUE.
IRISH FREE STATE PLAN. COUNCIL SEAT SOUGHT. EMPIRE COURT FAVOURED, Australian and N.Z. Press, Association. (Received October 1. 5.15 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 30. It is understood that the Irish Free State has definitely decided to contest the Dominions scat on the Council of the League of Nations in 1930 with the idea of replacing Canada. This is not intended as a slight to Australia, hut as a protest against the seniority idea. The Irish Free State is notifying the other Dominions that it is agreeable to the creation of a Commonwealth Court of Appeal to consist of the Empire's Chief Justices, to deal with inter-Dominion disputes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20375, 2 October 1929, Page 11
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