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abrá Heim anoERUS Morizo 08
4.
In my letter of 20th February, 1908,
292
the
first of the series, I requested that questions relating
to appointments to the Registry should be referred to me
for my opinion and advice. This was met by a point-blank
refusal; and the position taken up by Your Excellency was
that the Registrar was the person to be consulted,
the
Colonial Secretary the person to advise. This position has
been completely abandoned; and had the course which Your
Excellency now adopts in connexion with these appointments
been adopted from the first, the entirely satisfactory
arrangement would have been come to at once, and a very
large part of the correspondence would have been saved. I
Join in the wish expressed by Your Excellency in the last
part of paragraph 4 of the letter under reply that a
similar satisfactory conclusion upon all other questions
could be arrived at; the satisfactory conclusion in this
case is the one I desired from the first. My action in
pressing the matter so strongly on Your Excellency has
therefore been justified.
5.
While I am on this subject I must now
inform Your Excellency of the urgent need there was for
taking this action. The Chief Justice was not consulted
in the past, and Your Excellency's first refusal to accede