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above quoted, I think it may be stated generally that the

Chief Justice has no power not conferred on him by Ordi-

-nance to interfere in the executive and administrative

work of the Registry of the Supreme Court, as long as it

is carried out to his satisfaction. If he has cause of

complaint his remedy is to report to the Governor. The

Registrar and other officers in the Registry are, on the

other hand, bound to obey the lawful orders and directions

of the Court and the Court is entitled to information, if

it desires it, as to the adequacy or otherwise of the

Registry Staff to carry out such directions and orders of

the Court

9.

I may add that the dictum of Sir

George Phillippo quoted in my letter of the 10th. of last

March was accepted by Sir George Bowen, and that on the

17th. August, 1903, Sir Henry Blake commented on it in the

following words:- "The dictum of Sir George Phillippo is

*that the Registrar is the Head of a Department, but the

"Department must act in accordance with the direction of

#the Judges. If this be so, then I do not think the Judges

"can interfere with the members of the Department. They

*can order judicially that certain things shall be done,

"but the Head of the Department is, I take it, the person

"to