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ance to that effect can then be passed present I advise that nothing be done.

Fifth charge

but for the "The registry practically turned "into an agency for the administration of estates which "should have been wound up within the legal term.

This again is as baseless as the other charges Calvert, Lindsay, Jowzoyd - Kyshe cites five estates - not Umroyd, Scott and Pan Yan Yun

Calvert's Estate was the first one I had to deal with, as he died the day I arrived in Hong Kong the sums due to the estate were collected without any delay and the debts were paid this done, there remained a sum of 4,000 for the children who had been sent to Scotland See George he applied for the money, this was refused by Phillipo who ordered the Registrar to invest the same for the benefit of the children and remit the income every three or six months until the children came of age. Capital to The Chief Justice declined to send the one the jurisdiction of the Court, or to entrust it to one who he did not know and over whom he had no control, this precedent has been followed in the cases of Houtoyd and Scott where the capital belongs to infants. In the case of Lindsay the official administrator must hold the minoris estate for the reversioner and in Pan Yam Yun a curator is also concerned.

24. It must be remembered that all these estates give the Registrar a certain amount of trouble and that if he could, consistently with his duty, have got rid of them, he would gladly have done so long ago to endeavour to attach any blame to him is to bring a charge utterly devoid of reason or foundation

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