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whether this Government could not more economically
establish a separate Crown Solicitor's Department and
appoint a Crown Solicitor without private practice. I have
fully considered this question and I have arrived at the
conclusion that the establishment of such a Department
would be more costly than the arrangement I propose to
submit to Your Lordship.
The estimate of the cost of such a
Department given in Mr.9. B. L. Bowley's letter is in my
opinion a reasonable one. An Assistant Crown Solicitor
would in my opinion be required for it is doubtful whether
one officer could discharge all the duties, and in any case
provision would have to be made for the sickness and
absence on leave of the Crown Solicitor. No account is
taken in the estimates, of pension of staff and other ex-
penses such as passage to the Colony of officers upon their
engagomont.
3.
Owing to the appointment of a
Deputy Official Receiver, who now relieves the Land Officer
and Official Receiver practically of the whole of the
Bankruptcy Work, it is possible to relieve the Crown
Solicitor of quch work in the preparation of Agreements
relating to Crown Land, such as Agreements relating to
Scavenging