CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9] — Page 428

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I have the honour to acknowledge your

letter of 13th. August relative to the proposed changes in the

constitution of the Crown Solicitor's Department, for which I am

much obliged.

2.

I shall of course be very sorry to lose

Mr. Kemp as Rogistrar: but the remark I have to make on the

proposal to appoint him will not I am sure be taken as intended

to prevent his appointment. It will be necessary to ascertain

whether a Barrister is capable of holding the appointment of

Crown Solicitor. On this point the Attorney-General will be

able to give advice. The point involved is this that should

it be decided to offer the appointment to Mr. Kaup, he may

decide not to be called to the Bar: and may, though as to this

I am by no means sure, be able to qualify himself as a Solicitor

in time to take it up.

3.

K

I am delighted to hear that the change has

been sanctioned, as the present arrangement is anomalous and

quite unsuited to the needs of the Government, and I venture to

offer the following remarks for your consideration.

4.

On one point specially the Crown Solicitor's

Department wants strengthening: the control over the Police prosecutions. I have already written on this subject, and need not

repeat what I have already said. One member of the staff should

in my opinion be specially detailed to control and advise the

Police. It is quite impossible that they should do their work

unaided; the assistance should be compulsory, and it should not

be left to their discretion to ask for it. Only the other day,

some troublesome litigation would have been avoided if the Inspector