CO129-576-9 Vacancy for Registrar of the Supreme court of Hong Kong 20-6-1939 - 31-10-1939 — Page 4

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I do not think it will be very

satisfactory to recruit someone as a Crown

Counsel and then for him to find when he

arrives in Hong Kong that he is the Official

Receiver in Bankruptcy and Registrar of Trade

Marks and Patents. If that is the post for

which they are recruiting, surely it is better

to recruit for it and to tell the candidate

that he may be asked to act, or may be

transferred to a Magistracy or Crown Counsel.

Do try and impress upon them that the legal

people must be recruited for, and appointed to

definite posts, and that that can be done

without prejudice to their being transferred

to or acting in other posts as occasion

requires it. And please note what I said on

a previous file about language and the idea

that they can appoint people on agreement for

three years.

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8.8.39.

The war situation has presented attention

benj Swin to the haber in Cṣ. until now.

clear, but

This despatch is not altogether clear,

as I read para 3, the intention is to fost

one of