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consequent appointment of Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, the Senior

Police Magistrate, to act in the post of Puisne Judge.

Subsequently on the 14th. March last the issue was com❤

-plicated by an instruction which the Chief Justice issued

to Mr. A. Seth, the Registrar of the Supreme Court, desir-

-ing all Officers in the Registry to keep an accurate

diary of their daily work with a view, as it subsequently

transpired, to ascertaining whether the Staff of that

Department was adequate to the discharge of its duties or

not. This instruction Mr. Seth, having shewn the minute

and his written reply thereto to the Colonial Secretary,

declined to carry out.

3.

Your Lordship will observe that

with regard to the former issue I have requested the

Colonial Secretary in the case of any changes affecting

the Registry of the Supreme Court, arising from the

absence of Officers on leave and similar causes, to submit

a draft for my signature informing the Chief Justice or

the proposed changes with a view to obtaining an expres-

-sion of His Honour's views before the changes are made:

while, with regard to the latter issue, I have informed

Vr. Seth that, on any future occasion, when he may feel

himself in difficulties regarding any order received from

the