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My Lord,

With reference to Mr. Bonar Law's confidential despatch of the 9th February, 1916, and the connected correspond- ence, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that Sir Paul Chater is shortly leaving the Colony for a period of some months and that the question of an acting appointment to the Executive

Council will therefore arise.

2.

Ordinarily I should have proposed to appoint Mr.

N. J. Stabb, 0.B.E., who has recently been acting during the

absence of Mr. Sharp, but he informs me that he is so busy that

he would prefer not to be nominated. In these circumstances it

is my intention to appoint Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., the

unofficial member of the Legislative Council who is referred to

at the end of Sir Henry May's confidential despatch of the 18th

December, 1915.

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3.

I cannot feel that this is an entirely satisfact-

ory arrangement as it will mean that both the unofficial members

of the Executive Council will be lawyers, whereas I should

greatly prefer to have the advice of a member of the commercial

community. It is, however, impossible to attain this object

without appointing some one who is not a member of the Legislat-

ive Council, since if any member of the Legislative Council junior to Mr. Pollock were appointed it would certainly be

regarded as a slur upon the latter, in addition to which I must

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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