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for himself. If he were to leave the Colony the next
Colonial Secretary would have the greatest difficulty -in finding a house, There was a great amount of enter-
tainment to be done, and it was very expensive.
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He next referred to the question of the Court of Appeal. He was absolutely convinced that the scheme
proposed of bringing in the Chief Justice from
Shanghai would not work. It was quite impossible, as Sir Havilland de Sausmarez could not give more than three weeks and it would be quite impossible to get
through the work in that time. With reference to a
third Judge, he pointed out that Hong Kong had the same judicial staff as forty years ago while the work had
enormously increased, and there were no less than
twelve firms of solicitors there, all with heavy work. He considered a third Judge absolutely essential. If
a third Judge were provided, he would divide the
judicial jurisdiction of the Court between the Chief
Justice and one Judge, and give Appeals to the other
Judges sitting together. He admitted that the third
Judge would not be as fully employed as the other two, but at times all three would be as fully occupied as
possible, that is to say at least five months in the
year. There had lately been an extraordinary increase
of crime. The senior Puisne Judge, he thought, should
do criminal and bankruptcy work and work in Chambers,
He said that Lord Crowe had told him that he did not
think that anything could be done at present on finan-
cial grounds, but Sir Francis Piggott thought that a
great deal might be done to raise further revenue. He
was very much against the system of import duties, which
he said might upset the whole trade of Hong Kong which was very delicately balanced. He much preferred an
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