CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934 — Page 340

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Legal Departments.

That able and devoted Government servant, the

Crown Solicitor who attains the age of 60 next year, is

proceeding on leave in the Spring prior to retirement and I take this opportunity of placing on record the Government's

It is the high appreciation of his most valuable services. Government's intention that, pending the appointment of a

successor to Mr. Holmes, the officer holding the post of Registrar, Supreme Court, should act as Crown Solicitor

and the emoluments of this officer for six months have

been provided under Head 15 - Crown Solicitor.

As a result

it has been necessary to provide salary for the Registrar, Supreme Court, in respect of six months only, and acting pay for one of the Deputy Registrars who will act as Registrar during the remaining six months.

The Land Officer proceeds on leave in April

rext and it is intended that one of the Assistant Crown

Salicitors shall act for him. Only three months provision

for that Assistant Crown Solicitor has therefore been made

under Head 15 Crown Solicitor; his salary for the remain-

Land Office. der of the year being provided under Head 17

Heads 18 and 19 - Magistracies.

Last year it was the Treasury which presented

certain anomalies in the distribution of Cadet Officers.

This year the anomalies appear most conspicuously in the Magistracy, Hong Kong. Provision is made in these Esti- mates for five Cadet officers for 1935 as against two for 1934. These five include the present magistrates, a Cadet

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