§ MR. BRYNMOR JONES (Gloucester, Stroud)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the office of 1273 Registrar of the District Probate Registry at Gloucester is now vacant; and whether the opportunity in this and other like cases will be used to consolidate the local offices of the High Court of Justice?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir W. HARCOURT,) DerbyThe office of the District Probate Registrar at Gloucester is at the disposal of the President of the Probate Division, and he has filled the vacancy. I regret that in this ease the President, whose attention was called to the matter, has not thought it right to take the opportunity of consolidating this office with that of the District Registrar of the High Court, as suggested by the committee on the Central Office, presided over by the Lord Chief Justice of England. The Lord Chancellor and the Treasury desire that such economy in these appointments should be duly effected, and that power to effect it should be given by legislation.