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Legal Departments.
That able and devoted Government servant, the
Crown Solicitor who attains the age of 60 next year, is
proceeding on leave in the Spring prior to retirement and I take this opportunity of placing on record the Government's
It is the high appreciation of his most valuable services. Government's intention that, pending the appointment of a
successor to Mr. Holmes, the officer holding the post of Registrar, Supreme Court, should act as Crown Solicitor
and the emoluments of this officer for six months have
been provided under Head 15 - Crown Solicitor.
As a result
it has been necessary to provide salary for the Registrar, Supreme Court, in respect of six months only, and acting pay for one of the Deputy Registrars who will act as Registrar during the remaining six months.
The Land Officer proceeds on leave in April
rext and it is intended that one of the Assistant Crown
Salicitors shall act for him. Only three months provision
for that Assistant Crown Solicitor has therefore been made
under Head 15 Crown Solicitor; his salary for the remain-
Land Office. der of the year being provided under Head 17
Heads 18 and 19 - Magistracies.
Last year it was the Treasury which presented
certain anomalies in the distribution of Cadet Officers.
This year the anomalies appear most conspicuously in the Magistracy, Hong Kong. Provision is made in these Esti- mates for five Cadet officers for 1935 as against two for 1934. These five include the present magistrates, a Cadet
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