CO129-523-3 Appointment of Chief Justice and Attorney General 31-1-1930 - 19-2-1931 — Page 19

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Conf.Report

for 1926.

Ceylon desp.

No.621 of

7.10.26.

Conf.Report 11.1.29.

BALL A. D. Born July,1888; married one child.

Education. Preparatory Schools, Bickley and Exmouth, 1894-1901 Mill Hill School, 1901-1907; Exeter College, Oxford, 1907-1911.

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Professional purifications, B. A. (Oxon) 1911; Barrister-at-Law (Gray's Inn), 1920; read in chambers of Mr.Wilfred Lewis (common law practice), January June,

1925.

Civil Employment. Assistant Master, Bradfield College Junior School, September-October,1911.

Colonial Service. Appointed Unpassed Cacet, Federated Malay State,1911; 1st Class Magistrate and Assistant Controller of Labour, Perak, 1914; Passed Cadet, hong Kong, 1915; Second Police Magistrate, September,1920; Assistant Crown Solicitor, October 1920; Assistant Attorney General, December,1920; Legal Draftsman, Attorney General's Department, Cevlon,1927.

Present Salary. £1,350 (maximum £1400).

Reports. Attorney-General (Kemp) :- "General conduct excellent. Hardworking, thorough, efficient, tactful and adaptable. Good social qualities. Good administrative ability and promises very well".

Gov. Clifford (recommending Mr. Ball for appointment as Legal Draftsman, Ceylon) :- "Mr. Fletcher (Colonial Secretary) has recorded the following note on Mr.Bell:- "I have known Mr. Ball since he was transferred in 1915 as a Cadet from the Malayan to the Hong Kong service. His work has been uniformly good. He has specialised on the legal side, where he nas shown great promise. He has acted in the Crown Solicitor's Office, as Assistant Attorney Heneral as Puisne Judge, in each case with marked success. He edited the Ordinances of Hong Kong and he played a large part in the revision of the Hong Kong Regulations Mr.Ball's training and experience fit him in every way for the work required of the draftsman in the Attorney General's Office and I am confident that he is a most suitable candidate for the appointment"

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Gov.Stanley:- "The Attorney General reports follows:- 'In my opinion Mr. Dyer Ball has proved himself to be a competent draftsman. He works hard and has been of great assistance to me,' I think well

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