Wellington Law Society.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7810, 1 May 1905, Page 2

Wellington Law Society.

INCREASE Ol'' SOLICITOUS

U\r Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 29. Tiie annual report 01" the Wellington Law Society shows there arv .low 187 practitioners in the district hi increase of 20 on last year. The increase shown throughout the col>ny is 49, the number of solicitors .jructising- this year being 710, as gainst 001 in 1901. 01 this nuni er 112 are located in the North sland and 298 in the South K The olio * fug- arc the numbers resident a various districts :—Aucklund 130. unterbury 109, Gishorne 1", iawke's Hay 32, Afarlborough 7, .uls-.ni 10, OtagoilM, Southland !>'.;, I'aranaki 40, Wellington 187, West and 24. The estimated population i t the beginning of ibe \e, r wnI (10,070 (including 13,113 Mncr s.tnd 2829 Chinese). The ligiac iherefore show thai there is one m, lieitor to every 1208 of inhabitant j' one to ;!17 of mule adults, l.us. \-ear the figures were one to i;i2i <nd one to 331 respecth el>. Apropos of the salaries paid U .. upreme Court Judges, the rcpoi u' the Society su.vs : ••The inade ,uate salaries paid to Supreme Court ludges in New Zealand have been ■he subject of reprcsenlulion to the 'jovernment on several occasions oi .ate years, not by the Wellington t.aw Society alone, but by the law societies throughout (he colony. Members are no doubt aware that Llie (iorerniiicnl has taken the mat•er up by increasing the salaries, out it is thought not to an extent commensurate with the importance of the position ana the duties to be performed."

The society is taking steps to hav6 d set of No«s Zealand Law Reports 'supplied to Lincoln's Inn, London, Mr Skerrett having reported on his return from England of the difficult; experienced by solicitors working up New Zealand cases in London. It was resolved to lay the position bolore the Law Societies of Auckland, Canterbury, and Otago, and ask them to share in the expense of supplying a. sdt of reports t» tho Lincoln's inn library, for use in cases sent from New Zealand to the Privy Council. Replies favouring the proposal have been received from Otago and Canterbury, and the matter is to Ire dealt with by the Council of tho New Zealand Law Socletics at its next sitting.