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is generally no good, as she is left without knowledge of his
plans and no other lawyer is appointed to take his place.
Last year for a whole fortnight inJuly I could not get in
touch and the result was that important public business was
delayed. The same thing occured again for some six days quite
recently. This causes strong suspicion!
Priestwood unlike other Crown advocates I have
Known is a man I never seem to meet socially. The result is
that we cannot be said to be in close touch. The dificulty,
however, of making a change is that Priestwood would be severe-
ly hit financially, if he lost the Crown Advocateship which
is worth £900 a year and the prestige of the post must
considerably help his private practice.
If the Government decide to make a change, the best
man to appoint would be John McNeill of Hansons. He acted as
Crown Advocate in 1937 and gave great satisfaction.
I would like to make the suggestion that the Judge
should be consulted, because I feel that he might possibly
take a more lenient view than mine. But of course since I
have been here there have been no important Crown cases in the
not see so much of Supreme Court and therefore the Judge does
the Crown Advocate's work as the Consul-eneral does.
I
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