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confined to making the entries which the Commission examined If Mr. Hazeland were employed entirely in

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the Registry he could be replaced as Judge's clerk by a much less expensive officer. In fixing Mr. Hazeland's salary in his new sphere of employment his fees as Vice Admiralty Marshal could be transferred to the Treasury (about £150 a year I think) and the saving would thus be nearly if not quite as great as that contemplated by the Commission. In any event I do not

think the attendance of the Registrar and Deputy Re- gistrar in Court should be formally dispensed with.

There never has as far as I know been any difficulty

in meeting the Registrar's views as to which officer

should be told off for the purpose, the real difficul-

ty has been that the Registrar was never able to em-

ploy Mr.Barff in that way.

I think that the suggested amalgamation of

the offices of Interpreter and Court Translator should certainly be tried, but of course on the express under- standing that if Mr.Ball failed to give satisfaction in the dual capacity he would be restored to his

original position and pay.

I doubt very much whether the value of the Deputy Land officer's services to the Government is to be measured by the strict limits of his work as laid down in the Ordinance. If the surveys upon which the grants have been made and sub-divided were all correct his work would be simple enough, but I am

strongly