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their obligations to the Government.
I have throughout placed the utmost reliance on Mr.
Hill and in view of the fact that he has been on the staff
of the Supreme Court since 1903 I consider that I had good
cause to rely on his integrity.
The pressure of work on the officers of the Supreme
Court has been such that I could not do otherwise than rely
an the First Bailiff to attend to those matters which were
strictly within his province.
I would direct attention to the fact that there has
been in the past in the Supreme Court a Registrar, two Deputy Registrars and an Official Receiver.
The post of Official Receiver was held for some time
as a full time post by one who was regarded by the Government
as one of its most able cadet officers.
The second Deputy Registrar was at one time a
qualified solicitor but during the period material to the
Enquiry,- notwithstanding the fact that there had been an
enormous increase both in the work of the Supreme Court and in that of the Official Receiver there was only one Deputy Registrar (who was during my tenure of the office of Registrar a cadet officer without legal experience who was required to
perform magisterial duties in addition to his other work)
and the Registrar was for a great part of the period called upon to act as Official Receiver as well as Registrar of the Supreme Court and of Companies, Trade Marks and Letters Patent. The pressure of work was such that the Deputy Registrar who was entrusted with the supervision of accounts could not possibly find the necessary time for anything
approaching