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Clerk of Court during Mr Weatherhead's absence - There will now until Mr Weatherhead's return be performed by Mr. T. Turner of the Registrar General's department
3. I had hoped that the office of Clerk of Court might be left in abeyance for a few months, but W: Adams, Acting Chief Justice, has represented the advisability of filling it.
4. And therefore is alternative no but to take a clerk from another department.
5. I avail myself of this opportunity to point out the extreme difficulty I find in making provision for the conduct of public duties under circumstances like the present.
6. This Colony differs entirely from every other in this respect: there are no Candidates for Government employment as few or none come here to look for such, and Official Salaries are so small in comparison to the general style of the place that the vacant posts are not worth acceptance, especially when, as in the present instance, the situation is temporary, and the amount of Salary offered is ...