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The Chief Justice holds in this Colony a position of great trust and great responsibility. During the four years I have been Chief Justice I know that I have won the confidence of all sections of a very mixed community, and I have the honour to ask the Secretary of State to accept my statement, which I make as Chief Justice, and with a full sense of the responsibilities of my position, that the action which I took was absolutely necessary to the maintenance of the dignity of the Bench, and that it did in fact do so, and also restored the confidence and good relations between the Bench and the profession which had been shaken through no fault of mine.
The facts I have already dealt with in my former letter, and it is unnecessary to recapitulate them. The position in which I found myself was one of difficulty. It was one of those positions which sometimes arise in a small Colony, and are hardly to be appreciated in all their bearings, at home. Nor, as what happened has shown, can they be appreciated by those in the Colony who do not understand the somewhat delicate machinery necessary to the efficient working of a Court of Law in the Colonies. But in this case instead of consulting the Chief Justice on the matter the only advice sought by the Government was that of the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce. Some action was necessary to counteract the bad impression caused by the hostile and unwarranted attitude assumed towards me by the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce: that attitude led to the most ridiculously untrue statements being made in the press it reflected unjustly on my conduct personally, and if continued it would have produced very grave consequences. It was therefore in my opinion necessary to stop it; and by a good-humoured letter I succeeded in doing so, restored confidence, and allayed the feelings of irritation which had been engendered. The credit of the Bench was...
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