SEEN BY DEPT
-No.
10
24/9
CONFIDENTIAL.
RECEIVED
- 2 SEP 1939
53999/394
12
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
22nd August, 1939.
رقه
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your confidential despatch of the 27th July, 1939, and
note your approval of provision being included in the
1940
-
1941 estimates for two posts of Crown Counsel or
Magistrate in lieu of the two administrative cadets in
training for whom provision would otherwise have been
made.
2.
I will report to you in a separate despatch
regarding the appointment of Mr. H.G.Sheldon, K.C., to one
of the new posts.
3.
I note that the office of Crown Counsel and that
of Magistrate in Hong Kong will be added to the schedule
of officers of the Colonial Legal Service. By resolution
of the Legislative Council on 12th May, 1938, (Government
Notification No. 378 of 13th May, 1938) the title 'Crown
Counsel' was substituted for that of 'Assistant
Attorney-General'.
In future all barristers in the Hong Kong Service not holding a specific post (such as
Attorney-General, Crown Solicitor, Registrar of the
Supreme Court, etc.,) will be known as 'Crown Counsel' and
all solicitors in a similar position as 'Assistant Crown
Solicitors'. This will involve the deletion of 'Assistant
Attorney-General' from the list of scheduled posts in the
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
&c., &C., &c.