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reasonable to expect the Governor to be the intermediary in a correspondence which might be indefinitely prolonged.
3.
I read with surprise the 7th paragraph of Your Honour's letter relative to the complaints made by Mr. Seth of the treatment he had received from the Colonial Secretary, and I referred it to him for explanation, since it appeared to be contradictory to later statements by him. I attach his reply.
4.
I am sincerely glad to learn from the latter part of paragraph 8 that the question referred to has been settled in a manner "entirely satisfactory" to Your Honour. I may add that I wish it had been possible to arrive at a similar satisfactory conclusion upon all other questions which have been discussed without reference to the Secretary of State and I have done my best to that end.
5.
The questions raised in paragraph 11 were dealt with to the best of my ability in paragraph 8 of my Despatch to the Secretary of State. And as a result of the view I there expressed, the order to the Registrar to keep a diary of his work should in my opinion emanate from the Governor if it appears to him necessary in consequence of general representations made to him by the Chief Justice.
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Paragraphs 13 - 15 of Your Honour's letter are, I understand, data for the 're-consideration' by the Secretary of State. The question dealt with in my Despatch was whether, apart from any question of inefficiency on the part of members of the Registry Staff to perform particular duties, the distribution of work in the Registry can at any time be altered motu proprio by the Chief Justice. I held that it could not be, and I understand the Secretary of State to uphold that view.
7.
Paragraph 16. The letter Your Honour refers to, written by my predecessor on 27th June, 1905, had reference to the lack of a Private Secretary, a Shorthand Writer, and Typewriting Machines, of which Your Honour had complained, and