was for such an
The book.
officer.
- keeping in the Registry is limited in account and is of the simplest description. The have perused the evidence given before the Retrenchment Committee at pages 2, 3 and 4 of the appending, and we have examined the books for January and February of this
year
and find that in January last there were 344 entries in the book.
keeper's cash book,
and in February
February there were 47. In the shroffs petty cash book there were 203 entries in January and 107 in " ebruary. These latter entries are all posted in the Book-keeper's ledger.
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Mr Ackroyd who was de- gishar from 1882 till appointed Suione Judge 1892 is able to state that he has seen Mr. Barff constantly sit- ting with nothing to do, and M. Wise sees no reason to modify the evidence given by him. We are therefore
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of opinion that it would be a waste of public money to appoint to the
European with necessarily
post large salary.
The recommendation that the Clerk to the Chief Justice should be Clerk of the Court was made to save the Deputy Registrar who most likely would have work to do from losing his time while the Clerk to
the Chief Justice would have nothing! whatever to do, the Chief Justice being in Court. It was therefore thought advisable thus to find duties for an officer who would otherwise be un employed
and not to take another officer from his duties. We beg to refer Your Excellency to Mr Wise's evidence at page 4 of the appendit and to liv George Phillippos report of 1882.
With respect to the suggestion that the prevent deputy Land Afficer
be
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