years. Very Rev. George Otto Simms, M.A., Ph. D., was consecrated and enthroned as Protestant Bishop of the united diocese of ·Cork, Cloyne· and Ross, &t St. Fin ·Barre's Church, Cork. A native of Dublin, he spent his childhood years at Lifford where his father, the late J. F. A. Simms. Crown solicitor fo::- Tyrone, resided. Aged 42 he is the youngest bishop to be appointed in the Church of Ireland since 1915. He is a brother of Mr. H. J. Simms,· LL.B., Lifford. Donegal County Council made an order extending the urba'.1 boundary for ·the urban area of "Letterkenny. NOVEMBER It was announced that the Department of Education was mai<:- ing a grant of £ 2,500 towards the cost of the new Gaelic college at Teelin. A meeting of farmers in Letterkenny was informed that Messrs. Nestles wished to invest about £ 30.000 in-their new factory at Letterkenny but that before doing so they wished to know if a receiving depot, co:;ting £10,000 would be erected. The meetin5 decided to form a society to erect and run the depot. Supt. -vV. Leen, G.S., Clogher, was transferred to Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. Tory Island was relieved after 24 days isolation by high seas. Mr. Edward ·Gallen, Bloomfield, Castlefin, ex-county councillor, one of the county's most outstanding public figures, died. He was a former judge of the Sinn Fein Courts and had a lifelong connection with public affairs and Local Government bodies. Apart from Fort Dundee, where a military care and maintenance party was being retained, it was not intended to station any permanent garrison of Regular Army troops in Co. Don:'gal, the Minister for Defence told the Dail. Inspector Sean Murray, G.S., w2 s promot2d superintendent and transferred from Ballyshannon to Be:mullett, Co. Mayo. At the Irisr~ Red Cross Society novices first aid competition at "Kilkenny, the Letterkenny ladies' team, representing Co. Donegal, shared first place with Wexford. The Donegal men's team (drawn from the Lifford branch) was third in their section. Supt. 1W. Cronin, G.S., was transferred to ·Ballyshannon from Carriokmacross. The remaining 37! miles of railway line of the L. & L. S.R. Co., between Derry and Buncrana and Derry and Letterkenny was closed down. The line was first opened for traffic from Derry to Farland Point in 1864 and a year later to Buncrana. The line was converted to rarrow gauge in 1883. The Derry-Burtonport branch closed in 1946 and the Buncrana-Carndonagh line in 1935. DECEMBER Buncrana Urban District Council was abolished by order of the Miriister for Local Government and the County Manager, Mr. S. D. 1MacLochlainn was appointed by the Minister to carry out the functions of the Council. The 455.
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