No 518.
RECO
3503
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Rest 20 JAN 01
Government house.
Hongkong 29%
625
December, 1900.
nclosure ! to th4 23rd Oct.
7th Nov. 1900.
nclosure 2 Comp. List
Sir,
I have the honour to forward herewith
a copy of a correspondence from Mr Bazeland, Aeting Police
Magistrate, and a comparative list of the number of cases
heard in the Police Court in the years. 1899 and 1900.
2. There can be no doubt that as r
Hazeland points out, the present increase of work in the
Police Court has rendered it impossible for a single
magistrate to deal adequately with all the cases which must
be heard before him. In the earlier months of this year Mr
Gompertz, who was then atting Police Magistrate, vas of the
same opinion as Mr Hazeland. At that time the difficulty
was temporarily met by the appointment of Mr Hallifax as
Acting Police Magistrate, with instructions to come from
Taipo to Hongkong for two days in every week, to try cases
in the Police Court in Victoria.
3. When this makeshift was found to be
no longer adequate, and Mr Hallifax was unable owing to
the increase of his duties in the New Territory, to sit in
the Police Court in Victoria, I appointed Mr Kemp to be
Acting Police: Magistrates with a salary of $100. a month
· in addition to his pay as an unpassed cadet, in order that
he might sit daily. in the Police Court and thus relieve
Mr. Hazeland from the excessive pressure of work. This
arrangement has so far worked satisfactorily.
TEX RIGHT HONDIRABL
JOSEPH ORAIBERLAIN, M.P.,
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