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I do not think it will be very
satisfactory to recruit someone as a Crown
Counsel and then for him to find when he
arrives in Hong Kong that he is the Official
Receiver in Bankruptcy and Registrar of Trade
Marks and Patents. If that is the post for
which they are recruiting, surely it is better
to recruit for it and to tell the candidate
that he may be asked to act, or may be
transferred to a Magistracy or Crown Counsel.
Do try and impress upon them that the legal
people must be recruited for, and appointed to
definite posts, and that that can be done
without prejudice to their being transferred
to or acting in other posts as occasion
requires it. And please note what I said on
a previous file about language and the idea
that they can appoint people on agreement for
three years.
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8.8.39.
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clear, but
This despatch is not altogether clear,
as I read para 3, the intention is to fost
one of