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necessary for them to be fully qualified Barristers when
holding the junior legal appointments.
5.
The next point of importance which
emerges from a consideration of these tables is the in-
-sufficiency of Passed Cadets to carry on the normal require-
-ments of the Service. This has long been evident to me and
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has increasingly demanded investigation and remedy, but the
recent creation of six new posts, viz.:- of Crown Solicitor,
Assistant Crown Solicitor, Deputy Official Receiver,
Superintendent of Imports and Exports (for Liquor duties &c.),
and Second Assistant Registrar-General (Emigration &c.) Head of
Sanitary Department with no corresponding provision for
Officers to take their place when on leave has made the
immediate consideration of this question an imperative
necessity. Even in the past the difficulty has been chronic
and it is curious that no system whatever appears to have
been followed either as regards a systematized arrangement
in the grant of leave, or as regards the question of the
supply of Cadets. Each application for leave has been dealt
with as an emergency problem of a novel kind, and a general
shuffle of acting appointments has been made to meet the
emergency with a consequential dislocation of the administra-
been
-tive machine. Even so it has/necessary in many cases to