No.
314.
Hongkong.
Co
32929
Rref 27 OCT 10
Government House,
615
Hongkong, 22nd.September, 1910
You.12484
My Lord,
With reference to the last para-
-graph of Sir F. D. Lugard's Despatch No. 100 of the
23rd. of last March, I have the honour to report that
during Mr. Melbourne's absence on half-pay leave an
was made arrangement/similar to that approved during Mr. J. W. Lee-
-Jones' leave, viz.:- that Mr. Woodcock and Mr. Lee-Jones
should share in the discharge of Mr. Melbourne's duties,
Mr. Woodcock giving half of his time to the Supreme Court.
2.
The Registrar of the Supreme
Court reports that Mr. Lee-Jones has had quite as much
extra work as Mr. Melbourne had and that the Official
Administrator's work, practically all of which is done by
Mr. Lee-Jones could not be done better or kept more up to
date. The present arrangement, under which the Magistrate's
Clerk gives half a day to the Registry of the Supreme
Court and the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser has extra
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CRIME,
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