Enclosure 1.
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THE SUPREME COURT
REC
April 3tb. 1996. REG 16 MAY 06!
which I addressed to him on his relinquishing the post.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Williain Rebrings
Sir,
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With reference to my recent application for the acting
paisne-judgeship and your reply there to dated 6th.ultimo informing
me that His Excellency the Governor had already decided to appoint
Yr.Saith to the post, I teg leave respectfully to state that
although I have tut recently joined the Hong-Kong Service I never-
-tbeless cannot be looked upon as a new comer in the sense of a
new arrival in an Eastern Colony, nor is it to te presumed that I
received my present appointment without the Home Government teing
satisfied as to my possessing the necessary requirements for the
position I hold.
2.
I have laboured for the last 15 years in a community by
no means different to the one to be found here; indeed the elements
are the same, the local laws differing but slightly, the manners,
usages and customs of the natives who are the real and almost only
litigants in the Courts being also the same as in the Straits
Settlements.
3.-
The experience which I gained in Singapore. Penang and
Malacca from the position of Acting Registrar, Commissioner of the
Court of Requests and Magistrata of Police which I held allunately
for 15 years, especially in Malacca where there is no Judge, and
where the Registrar exercises large powers in the absence of a
Judge, fully qualified me for the position I applied for.
Having made the service. my profession after qualifying
ayself therefor with the service rules and precedents tefore me,
The Honoutable,
The Colonial Secretary.
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