It is proposed that the Puisne Judge, who should always be a lawyer and capable of acting in the absence of the Chief Justice, should receive £1200 a year, and that the Police Magistrates, who need not be lawyers, should receive £800 each - making a total of £2,800; which would be £900 in excess of the present expenditure, but £200 less than if a third magistrate at £700 were added to the existing Establishment.
I would recommend that Mr Callaghan be transferred to the Office of Puisne Judge; that Mr. Mitchell, the present Assistant Magistrate, be appointed First Police Magistrate, and Mr. C. May, the present Superintendent of Police who had for some time been acting as Assistant Magistrate in Mr Mitchell's absence, be appointed Second Police Magistrate. Mr. Mitchell, however, having intimated to me his...