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at the outside a quarter of an hour a day and my order was limited to a week: that I had not given any such assurance as His Excellency supposed, nor did I think the case called for

such assurance on my part. Above all I pointed out that there were no duties unconnected with the Supreme Court which the officers of the Registry, or the Registrar himself, had to perform. The duties of the Registrar were, I pointed out, in part magisterial, in part ministerial, the performance of all of which must be subject to the control of the chief Justice. Beyond this there were the routine duties of the office. As to

these I explained my view of the positions of the Chief Justice

and Registrar to be the following:-

The Chief Justice is the responsible head of the Supreme Court. It is his duty to be in touch with all the officers of the Registry and to know their capacity for work: but that as there is a great deal of routine work to which the Chief Justice could not devote his time this had been entrusted to the Registrar. As this entailed correspondence with the Colonial Secretary, and also on account of the nature of his duties, the status of Head of Department had been conferred upon him - not in this Colony alone, but in Mauritius also, and I imagine in other Crown Colonies. That this put him in the position of Chief of the Staff; and that no wise Head of Da- -partment would think of interfering with his work, or going past him by giving order to subordinate officers. But that this did not relieve the Chief Justice of responsibility, or of ** the duty of interfering if occasion arose. I instanced one case where I had insisted on the Registrar reporting an Officer for retirement.

I then pointed out how important it was that the Chief Justice should be consulted with regard to the changes in the superior officers of the Registry, as he was the best Judge of their knowledge and intelligence; that he was

in some measure dependent on them as the repositories of the minor points of practice and had often to consult them with regard to precedents. And for myself I said I had always made a

point