286 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



Act has more or less become a dead-letter. 

 Whilst penning these lines, the following 

 interesting communication, published in the 

 Daily News on the 28th July 1911, claimed 

 my attention : — 



"Mr. R. Winfrey, M.P., in conversation 

 with our Lobby Correspondent last evening 

 furnished some striking instances of the value 

 of the Land Transfer Act of 1875, as to the 

 failure of which, owing to the local authorities, 

 the Lord Chancellor and the ex - Lord 

 Chancellor made complaint in the House of 

 Lords two days ago. 



" In 1894 Mr. Winfrey said he moved on 

 the Holland (Lincolnshire) County Council 

 a resolution urging upon the Lord Chancellor 

 of that day the desirability of creating a local 

 land registry office in that administrative 

 county. He was opposed by the legal gentle- 

 men on the Council, but he succeeded in 

 carrying the resolution. 



" ' Shortly afterwards,' continued Mr. 

 Winfrey, 'three Boston solicitors started a 

 correspondence condemning the action of the 

 County Council, and asserted that in cases 

 where the Land Transfer Act had been put 

 into operation it had ignominiously failed and 



