The Gazette 1967/71

ised as pressure groups. Industrial action is con trary to the responsible and confidential relation ship between professional employees and their employers. It is in conflict with the functions which they serve, and with the standards of professional commitment as a service to the public. Nevertheless, there would seem to be no good reason why professional associations should not co operate with management with a view to the removal of misunderstanding which is so often the basis of controversy. Communication of informat ion is a ready and essential source of mutual appreciation and understanding. Comparative surveys of function, trained skill, responsibility and reward would, I suggest, serve a useful purpose. In this, I see no conflict with the standards to which we adhere. The use made of qualification to pro mote and preserve individual personal relationship with an employer does not derogate from the 'image' of the professional, whether employed or self-employed, and which we all strive to enhance. Applications have been received from the registered owners mentioned in the Schedule annexed hereto, for the issue of Certificates of Title in substitution for the original Certificates issued in respect of the lands speci fied in the said Schedule, which original Certificates, it is alleged, have been lost or inadvertently destroyed. A new Certificate will be issued in each case, except a case in respect of which notification is received in this Registry within 28 days from the publication of this notice, that the Certificate of Title is still in existence, and in the custody of some person other than the reg istered owner Any such notification should state the grounds on which such Certificate is being held. Dated the 30th day of July, 1968 D. L. McAllister, Registrar of Titles. Central Office, Land Registry, Chancery Street, Dublin. SCHEDULE 1. Registered Owner Francis West Mitchell. P'olio number 6650. County Tipperary. Lands of Cooleeshill in the Barony of Ikerrin containing 130 acres 1 rood 20 perches. 2. Registered Owner Francis West Mitchell. Folio •number 1988. County Kings. Lands of Caaleeshill in the Barony of Ballybritt containing 195 acres 0 roods 35 perches. 3. Registered Owner Nora Murphy. Folio number 6759 County. Mayo Lands of Cordarragh in the Barony of Gallen containing 1 rood 20 perches. 20 REGISTRATION OF TITLE ACT, 1964 ISSUE OF NEW LAND CERTIFICATES

the professions are strictly neither 'Management' nor 'Labour'. Professional employees do not identify themselves with 'Labour and, though not a few may be charged with management or ad ministrative responsibilities, it is unusual to find that they have so merged with management or administration as to lose their professional identity and shed all professional responsibility. Professional associations seek to guarantee quality, and, in the case of the older traditional associations embracing law and medicine, they endeavour to guarantee integrity by adherence to a strict code of conduct. But, whether old or new, the emphasis is on qualification and an indication of competence. It is by virtue of this qualification that professional people claim a special status, by which is ment a social estimate of esteem stemming from a function performed or an office held. It is a gradation in a hierarchy bestowed because of a special qualification resulting from an intensive course of training in a liberal art or technological skill. It is a social estimate of prestige. In the case of professional employees, profes sional performance still remains measurable only against professional standards. Whilst business competence may measure the standard of manage ment performance, professional standards are determined outside the enterprise. They are not related to its success and are set by the profession itself. Thus it is that, as in the practitioner-client relationship, the professional employee looks to quality as his motivation, and expects reward to be a reflection rather than a source of it. He looks to the recognition and maintenance of status as something from which 'due reward' will follow rather than having to be fought for. It is in this realm that a marked distinction is to be seen between the professional association and the trade union. 'Management' and 'Labour' confront each other in a market and work situat ion. The concern is with economic power. Un happily, these conceptions have become indicative of conflict, and collective bargaining seems to have developed into an institutionalised form of this conflict. Although of recent years, professional associations have been from time to time called upon by their members—in particular those who are in salaried employment—to extend their pro tective function, they are not structured or organ­