surprise for naturally considered that with my long experience and legal attainments I would under any circumstances be;
appointed to be the senior Deputy Registrar, should any vacancy occur, and that the newly appointed legal official, whoever he might be, would take the junior appointment of Deputy Registrar and Accountant, thus I put forward no application, moreover. I was fully cognizant with the fact that the Hong Kong Government possessed only two officials in addition to myself i.e. Messrs Seth and Hazeland who were thoroughly familiar with the work in the Registry, and whoever therefore might come in as the new Deputy would be obliged to learn the work "ab initio".
3. I took greater consolation from the fact also as to my secured position from any possible rivals, while still bearing the Cadet system in mind, that the work of this Registry is exacting and intricate and requiring experience and certain general legal knowledge, particularly with regard to procedure and knowledge of the Courts, and as the Registrar is also Official Administrator, Official Trustee and Registrar of Companies, and as the Deputies in such a busy Court as this, are required to assist him in all his work it follows that they must necessarily possess qualifications analogous to his own and that their training is therefore long.