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Registrar,
I am glad to find that the tone of insub- -ordination has disappeared from your minutes, and that,judging from the reply to my last minute in connexion with the work of the Registry you are not any longer disposed to contest my right as head of the Judicial Department to ask for information with regard to it. I was under the impression that a few days' reflexion would make you see that your position was untenable; and I hope I am right in the conclusion I draw from your reply to my last minute that you have abandoned the pretension of being an independent Head of Department. You have worked under me long enough now to know that I would not willingly detract from the official importance of any of my officers on whose cordial, rather than official, co-operation I am dependent for carrying on the work of the Supreme Court, for the effective working of which I alone am responsible. You also are aware that I have had so many years experience in the working of a Judicial Department, and that I am not likely to be unfamiliar with the exact relationship which exists between the Chief Justice, as Chief of the Judges, and his Registrar. If therefore in the hurry of business I were by any chance to make a slip, or do anything derogatory to the dignity of the Registrar, you will see at once that that relationship requires that you should offer a respectful protest to the Chief Justice instead of running off to seek refuge from tyranny in the Colonial Secreta- »ry's Office. It occurred to me that your dignity might be offended at being asked to keep a diary, but from our many talks on the working of the Registry, more especially in connex- -ion with the now-pending changes, in respect to which we were in complete agreement, I imagined that you would at once understand the reason of my request. I think that perhaps I am right in supposing that it was the nature of the request that "upset" you, as you described it, rather than the fact of my making it. For it must be obvious to you that the right to make a request does not depend on whether it be verbal or written.
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