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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17436, 7 April 1931, Page 6

The president of the Hamilton District Law Society, Mr. N. S. Johnson, stated this week that discount of 10 per cent vvould be allowed on all solicitor's and client costs on all matters completed in the district after April. The question of reducing the salaries of the staffs of legal firms was an individual matter.

I Although all the records of tho Land Transfer Office at Napier were destroyed as a result of the earth* . quake and fire, temporary arrahgeI menta made at Wellington,* where the ! Napier Registrar has his temporary I office, have enabled land transactions i to be given the maximum amount of legal protection possible under the circumstances. Since it is obvious that dealings affecting Napier property cannot give the same protection at the present moment as before the earthquake, the present system of indexing will be succeeded, it is understood, by an Act of Parliament which will validate the above temporary system. The expeditious manner in* which a. satisfactory system has been schemed to protect [Kvst-oarthquake transactions is proving of considerable convenience both to solicitors and members of the public. There is an * urgent need, however, felt especially by practising solicitors in Napier, for the establishing of a Land Transfer Office in tho city. By the latest mall from London, Mr. F. 11. Lawton, one of the* trustees of the Oriole. Faram fund, received from Mrs. 11. Faram a further report on the progress of the gifted girl pianist. Miss Faram recently won the open ' pianoforte class, own selection, at the Wimbledon competition festival, the event being open to pianists from all parts of Britain. The judge was Mr. James Chiiig, M.A., whose standing in the musical world makes the following comment on Miss Faram's performance interesting: "A most excellent rendering. A very nice easy technique, and good sense of tone color and climax. She should be given every encouragement for the future." In this class, the Gisborne pianist was awarded 90 per cent, of marks, her selection being Chopin's Ballade in A flat. The class was described as of a very high standard, and the judge intimated that he had no hesitation Avhatever in making his award in favor of the Gisborne girl, as ners was a most remarkable performance; every opportunity should be given to her, Mr. Chins stated, as she should, "go to the Y9?7 toPi" j .