CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12] — Page 632

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The cases in the morning have to be got through in a very

· hurried manner. I do not suggest that justice has not been

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· done between the parties, but it is very unsatisfactory to

be compelled to rush through one's work in this way.

· Perhaps it may be interesting for me

to state what Sir James Russel--- shortly after his retire-

ment as Chief Justice- wrote to me in a private letter

respecting the disposal of the work by one Magistrate, wher

it was suggested that one was sufficient. He said that

when he was Assistant Magistrate in the seventies. He and

Mr May- Chief Magistrate- had as much work as they could

do, and he did not see how it was possible for one Magis-

trate to do the work.

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To my mast is nailed the motto

"Never say die".. And it in only dire necessity has compel-

led me to write this letter. I state unhesitatingly, there

is sufficient work for two Magistrates to do, and it is

- absolutely impossible for one Magistrate to do the work.

2618 I would also crave leave to refer to 0. S. 0. No 1999

: the subject.

on

I have, etc.,

! (Sä}ƒ F. A. HAZELAND,^

Acting Police Magistrate.,