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will of course be no rigidity in the application of this scheme,
more especially in the case of Junior Officers who have no long
experience of a Department and whose capacity it may be well
to test in different classes of work.
2.
I was fully aware that the higher legal
appointments are not included among those for which Cadets are
normally eligible and I venture to express my entire concur-
-rence with the views contained in the 3rd. paragraph of your
Despatch. When these Officers and also the Governor or
Colonial Secretary
...
go on leave, however, the vacancy thus
created has normally to be filled by a Cadet, though I note
the exception of the Attorney-General (paragraph 6 of your
Despatch) and it was primarily with the filling of such
temporary vacancies that my Despatch was intended to deal. Nor
had I any intention of making too rigid a distinction in regard
to the substantive appointment of Cadets to legal appointments.
In regard to the question of legal posts.
3.
The Chief Justice and Puisne Judge will not ordinarily be allow-
-ed to take leave simultaneously. When either of them is away
generally during vacation the other would
usually remain the sole Judge and no acting appointment is
on short leave
necessary. If the Chief Justice goes on long leave the vacancy
would
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