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that although Your Excellency has introduced one change in the old practice, and intends in future to keep the Chief Justice fully informed of any proposed changes in the Registry, Your Excellency has not yet intimated an intention of consulting the Chief Justice with regard to such changes (latter of 9th. April).

that Your Excellency has consulted some other Officers - Mr. Wakeman, Mr. Kamp and Mr. Seth - on matters relating to the Supreme Court on which I have made representations to Your Excellency.

In my opinion the chief Justice is solely responsible to Your Excellency for all matters connected with the Supreme Court, and that it is indispensable to the proper administration of justice that the Chief Justice should be looked upon as the adviser to the Governor in all matters relating thereto.

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In asking that the matters now the subject

of correspondence should be discussed verbally I did not lose sight of Your Excellency's views on the subject of verbal dis- -cussions, which I have expressed my wish to conform to; but

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in your letter of 6th, April Your Excellency informed me that you had had interviews with Mr. Wakeman, Mr. Kemp and Mr. Seth, and as in my view all these officers were or are my subordinate officers, and as the information which Your Excellency has, as I gather, derived from them is in some respects erroneous, only course open to me seemed to ask Your Excellency to fore- -go your objections and to consent to a personal interview with myself. It is clear to me that the advice which Your Excellency is receiving is misleading, and unless the effect of it is removed the result cannot fail in my opinion to be seriously prejudicial to the administration of justice. It is also clear to me that, much to my regret, I have failed in my letter to impress Your Excellency with the soundness of the views I hold with regard to the position of the Chief Justice in connexion with matters affecting the Supreme Court.

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