CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10] — Page 574

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directly I saw this, expresses my views on the form of

true this resolution, which in no way gave the nature of the

question which had been submitted to the Chamber: and

could only have been drafted by a person who was actuated

iny by feelings of hostility to the Chief Justice or té a

desire by misrepresentation to prejudice his action in

the eyes of the public. It moreover inaccurate in one

special particular. The effect of my letter was to cause

an alteration to be made in the resolution before copies

were sent to the press, the "majority of Solicitors in

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13. The letter signed by some of the Solicitors had been

circulated for siganture and sent in to the Chamber; but

many of the senior firms felt that this was an error of

judgment and that it jeopardised the existence of the Law

Society. It was pointed out to the juniors that their

proper course if they objected to what had been done by

the Committee was to ask the Chairman to convene a General

Meeting of the Society when the matter could be discussed.

This was done, with the result that differences were

removed and the letter of 22nd February was written to

that effect to the Chairman of the Chamber. It might be

thought that the Chamber having based itself entirely on

the representations of the younger solicitors would, when

they were informed by those same solicitors that the

information had been given owing to a misunderstanding,

and that the objections had been or were going to be

removed, have acquiesced, and withdrawn their opposition.

But for some mysterious reason they remained unalterably

of the same opinion".

14. I now deal with the letter of the Secretary of the Chamber

to His Excellency the Governor, of 19th February.

Paragraph 2. I have already shown the reason for the delay

in replying to the Colonial Secretary's letter was

avoidable