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Enclosure II

543

CHAMBERS.

27th, December, 1911.

I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excellency's letter of the 20th.instant informing me of the decision of the

Executive Council to put ordinance No.1 of 1910 in force against me quite independently of the matter of the proposed new Appeal Court. This decision coupled with Your Excellency's previous letter which connected the decision with the opinion expressed by the

Secretary of State that my retirement was necessary to satisfy the

Foreign Office in order to facilitate the immediate establishment

of the Appeal Court, and with the former letter to Japan which

seemed to assume that I knew about my intended retirement, has

somewhat bewildered me. I gather however that the decision that I

should retire under the Ordinance on reaching the age of 60 was

come to some time ago, and I have first to express my regret that

earlier notice was not given to me. If it had been I should not

have incurred the expense of taking leave to Japan, nor of arranging

for my wife and son to come out to the East. Secondly, I have the

honour to point out that the time which has been left me to make

the necessary arrangements for obtaining employment in England is

altogether inadequate. Thirdly, I have further to point out that

by compelling me to retire on 30th. April next I shall be unable

to complete the 7 years of actual service necessary to bring me

within the benefit of the rule which would give me a pension of

£500 a year.

I venture with respect to suggest that my services

to the Colony are such as to entitle me to a little more considera-

i tion, and that at least I should be allowed to serve the full perod

of 7 gears. I think I am justified, all questions of remuneration

apart, in looking on the work of revising the laws in the light

H.E. Sir Frederick Lugard. G.C.M.G.

Governor.

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