led to an accumulation
of offices
on him which
I conceive is inconvenient
to the Judicial Department of the public service and it is with the hope that stated.
The grounds of inconvenience
might have been
in
any future appointment
the precedent will not
be followed that I now
trouble His Excellency
3.
Mr Alexander
The Registrar of the
fills the following Offices. Court of Admiralty is 1. Registrar of the Supreme regulated by the.
Court.
2.
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Official Administrator by 4. Official Administrator to
Ordinance 9 of 1870, is declared to be the Registrar
of the Supreme Court.
The Offices therefore cannot be separated except by Ordinance. Each of the last mentioned Ordinances empowers the Chief Justice to frame general rules and
Intestate Estates. 5. Official Trustee.
I have long been of opinion that however large is the experience of Mr Alexander and however due these benefits are to
his long and valuable
services
such
an
orders for regulating the accumulation of Offices is procedure and practice open to objection.
of the Courts in the
Imperial Act 26 Vic.
Registrar of the Court Cap.244.
of Admiralty. 3. Official Assignee in
Bankruptcy.
The Official Assignee
6.
by sec. 6 of the Bankruptcy
4.
Ordinance, and the
Official
Bankruptcy and Probate
4. Mr Alexander has always
and I believe justly complained
Jurisdiction; - It has that the staff of the
therefore been at all times Registrar's Office is not
open to the Chief Justice sufficiently strong. Had his
to
energies