London, June 4. a statement before the House of Commons to-day on the Irish negotiations, the Prime Minister intimated that the Government had secured a chairman for the! boundary commission.. He would announce the name to-niorrow. The jovernment had also decided to ask a judicial conuaittee to advise them regarding their legal and constitutional powers to constitute the commission. The committee would include the Chief Justice of Australia and, "he hoped, also. member of the Canadian Bench.
There was every reason to believe that the judicial committee would be. able to sit and resolve the issues in July. The Government had not abandoned hope that the two Irish Governments might reach an agreed settlement before the commission was constituted, though even in that event the commission. would be necessary to give formal effect to the agreement. The conciliatory utterances of "Mr. Cosgrave, the tate President, and Sir James the Premier of North had encouraged these Mr. MacDonald said that at his meeting with the two Irish leaders fon Sunday he had asked them to consider certain proposals which he had since submitted to them in the form of a letter. He hoped that Irish statesmanship would enable a solution to be reached (cheers).
It is stated unofficially in the lobby of the House that. Sir James Rose-Innes, the Chief Justice of South Africa, will be chairman of the Irish boundary commission—Reuter.
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