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5. During this year, however,

several innovations have been made, of which the first was

the institution of the Land Court for the New Territory: at the end of last Bay. This necessitated the transfer of Mr Gompertz from his acting appointment as Police Magistrate to become Member of the Land Court. No cañet was eligible

to fill the vacancy thereby occasioned at the Magistracy: : and accordingly I temporarily appointed Mr Razeland to act

as Police Magistrate. I further appointedy Mr Kemp, an umpassed cadet, to act as Registrar of the new Land Court, and arranged that Mr Wood should continue the work of

registering land clained at Ping Shan, hitherto perÝ OTBEĆ

by Mie Kamp «

4. On the 10th October, Mr Hazeland

informed me that he was unable any longer. to discharge single-handed the stress or work at the Police Magistracy. I therefore appointed Mr Kamp temporarily to act as Police Magistrate, as I am reporting in a separate despatch ne 518

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and promoted Mr Food to act as Registrar of the Land Court. This rearrangement was facilitated by the fact that the land claimed at Ping Shan had all been

' registered by the end of August.

5. In view of the decision to

separate the posts of Colonial Secretary and Registrar General the combined duties of which have been discharged by Mr Stewart Lockhart, I had the honour to recommend fur

the appointm

* «apatch No 464 of 20th Oct. 1900 ment of Mr Brewin as Registrar General, and of Mr Clementiş as Inspector of Schools in the place of Me Brewik. As a result of these changes either proposed or actual every umpassed cadet in the service is either acting in or has been recommended for appointment, to samé. post.

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