CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932 — Page 113

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.

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Numerically the smallest of the Government Departments,

consisting as it does of the Attorney General and Assistant

Attorney General and the Stenographer.

The time of the

Attorney General is fully occupied with the drafting of

legislation, and the answering of the multifarious legal

conundrums that come to him as principal law officer of the

Government. The work of Director of Public Prosecutions

falls largely to the lot of the Assistant. Not only does

he usually appear for the Crown in criminal cases at the

Sessions and in important preliminary hearings before the

Magistrates, but he daily devotes some hours to acting

as legal adviser to the Police Department. No reductions

are therefore recommended.