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Rees Davies), Registrar

Supreme Court, (vacant, but not

likely to be filled by a Cadet), First Deputy Registrar,

Supreme Court, (Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne), Second Deputy

Registrar, Supreme Court, (Mr. J. W. Lee-Jones), First Police

Magistrate (Mr. F. A. Hazel-and), Land Officer (Mr. G. H.

Wakeman), Assistant Land Officer (Mr. P. Jacks) and Assistant

Crow Solicitor (vacant, but not likely to be filled by a

Cadet). Only four Cadets in fact hold legal posts viz.:~

Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz (Puisne Judge), Mr. J. H. Kemp (Crowm

Solicitor), Mr. J. R. Wood (Second Police Magistrate) and

Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher (Deputy Official Receiver). The last

two are not properly qualified and there are at the present

moment no qualified Cadets to occupy any of the other posts,

though Mr. F. A. Irving, Mr. G. N. Orme and Mr. J. R. Wood are

endeavouring to qualify.

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It transpires that of the posts to

which under the conditions of their appointment to the

Service Cadets have or should have preferential claims to

act (even if their claims to substantive appointment cannot

in all cases be recognized) there are 21 non-legal and 13

legal. The fact that the substantive appointments of Chief

Justice and Attorney-General Lay generally or frequently be

held by Officers brought in from another Colony does not