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whether this Government could not more economically

establish a separate Crown Solicitor's Department and

appoint a Crown Solicitor without private practice. I have

fully considered this question and I have arrived at the

conclusion that the establishment of such a Department

would be more costly than the arrangement I propose to

submit to Your Lordship.

The estimate of the cost of such a

Department given in Mr.9. B. L. Bowley's letter is in my

opinion a reasonable one. An Assistant Crown Solicitor

would in my opinion be required for it is doubtful whether

one officer could discharge all the duties, and in any case

provision would have to be made for the sickness and

absence on leave of the Crown Solicitor. No account is

taken in the estimates, of pension of staff and other ex-

penses such as passage to the Colony of officers upon their

engagomont.

3.

Owing to the appointment of a

Deputy Official Receiver, who now relieves the Land Officer

and Official Receiver practically of the whole of the

Bankruptcy Work, it is possible to relieve the Crown

Solicitor of quch work in the preparation of Agreements

relating to Crown Land, such as Agreements relating to

Scavenging