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Registrar's Office, and other duties that have to be so care- fully carried out there. This is the first occasion in the whole course of my career, even in Hongkong, in which the assertion has been made that I am "difficult to work with".
Others, however who are in as good a position to judge, are ready, I am advised, to assert otherwise. Considering the short time he has been Chief Justice, will he frankly explain in what
way he finds it difficult to work with me, and on what occasion
I have ever refused to carry out his wishes. Surely he is
acquainted with his own powers and the powers of the Executive !
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The Chief Justice is quite correct in
and
stating that on his assuming duties (1st. April, 1902, he has
recently just returned from 2 months' leave: 22nd. April to
21st. June, 1908,). he consented, as i may state had done his
predecessor, to ay remaining in Chambers owing to the necessity
of my being in the Registry, and it is fortunate that Sir
William Goodman consented, rather than that I should attend
exclusively upon him in Chambers or in Court, and abandon my
office entirely to my subordinates. It seems to me that the
Chief Justice when he told me I had only one hour's work a day,
did not fully realize and understand what the duties of the
Registrar in Hongkong consist of. I will therefore proceed for
the information of His Excellency the Governor to explain what
duties 1 perform. Apart from being Registrar, the duties of
which include those of Master and Taxing Officer, I am also
Official Trustee, Official Administrator, and Registrar of
Companies, every one of which position necessitates my conti-
nual presence and attendance. Moreover I am in sole charge of
the correspondence besides seeing to the Shroff receipts and
payments in and out of Court and other more or less important
work. I am also in charge of the Library. Since his appointment
as
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