CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11] — Page 132

Thanked B.

the interview, inmediately minuted to him as follows:-

"The Registrar,

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1 shall be obliged by your producing

authority for your suggestion or staterent that it is irregular

for a judge or a Court to endorse any process of the Court".

6.

i annex a copy of all the minutes

which passed between the Registrar and myself and would draw

Your Excellency's attention to the minutes of the Registrar

́marked 'D' and 'b'.

9.

It may not surprise Your Excellency to

be informed that the registrar has on at least one occasion

been ordered cut of Chambers by another Judge: and i have the

permission of Mr. Kise to mention that he has had to resort to

this course.

10.

I believe that the present Chief

Justice, when acting as Chief Justice some time ago, had to

adopt a similar measure. Your Excellency may perhaps desire to

refer to Mr. Goodman and Nr. Wise for confirmation of what 1

have stated.

11.

Whatever view Your Excellency may take

concerning my action in ordering the Registrar to leave my

Chambers, I submit that the minutes of the Registrar were

provocative and impertinent.

12.

If Your Excellency agrees with my

estimate of the character of those minutes, 1 trust that the

Registrar will be ordered to supply me with a recognised legal

authority for the statement which he made in his first minute

marked 'b', and to apologise in writing to the Court as repre-

sented by the Puisne Judge for the minutes marked 'U' and ''.

I have etc.,

(Sd.) F. Sercombe Smith,

Ag. Puisne Judge.

P.S.