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I receive instructions to that effect from the Secretary

of State, I should not feel justified in adopting the

course Your Honour proposes. The suggestion however, will

be within the cognizance of the Secretary of State when

he peruses the exhaustive criticisms contained in your

letter and its enclosure.

5.

6.

I turn to the general statements (apart

from specific requests) made in your letter. In regard

to the obligation of the Executive Council to give reasons

for its decision, I regret that as I said verbally to Your

Honour I cannot concur in the universal application of

this dictum. Nor can I concur that the kxecutive Council

did not exercise their advisory functions independently

(para.6). The Council heard what the Secretary of State

had written and 'functus officio' formed their decision.

It is beyond my competence to comment

upon the observations you have made regarding the action

of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the

Secretary of State for the Colonies, but I may observe

that I see no reason wharever for discarding the inter-

pretation I put upon that action viz. that the Secretary

of State would naturally be averse to introducing a scheme

which would "alater fundamentally the judicial procedure

of the Colony" in the face of the declared dissent of

the Chief Justice of the Colony.

7.

Finally Your Honour expresses regret

thet a scheme of this nature "should have been proposed

by the Government and sanctioned at Home without the

opinion of the Chief Justice being taken upon it". The

facts, however, set out in your paragraph (9) appear to

me to have been overlooked by Your Honour in this commection,

and to shew that as long ago as some date prior to November

10 th.