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beginning with my despatch No.457 of 3rd June, 1938, and ending with my despatch
No.151 of 3rd March, 1939, on the subject
of the salary of Mr. W. A. Jones. The request
of Mr. Jones, who is a solicitor, for the enhanced initial salary which is granted to
certain barristers, was not acceded to on the grounds that in general the posts in
the Colonial Legal Service to which solicitors
and barristers are respectively appointed
are in different and distinct categories and that there is not normally any question of barristers and solicitors in Hong Kong being
interchangeable.
3. An interesting point in this connection has recently been raised by Mr. T.J. Gould whose appointment to the Colonial Legal Service as an Assistant Crown Solicitor, Hong Kong, was notified to me in your
p confidential staff despatch of 13th July,
1938. Mr. Gould is qualified both as a solicitor and a barrister; he was admitted to the New Zealand bar in February, 1928, and subsequent to his attaiment of the
age of twenty five years on 24th June, 1931,
he practised at the bar and as a solicitor for two years in New Zealand and for four
years in Fiji. Since his arrival in this Colony
on 28th September, 1938, Mr. Gould has held, to
my entire satisfaction, the appointment of
Assistant Land Officer and Deputy Registrar of
Marriages; on 3rd September, 1939, he was
appointed to be Deputy Registrar and Marshal of
the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, In Prize, in
addition to his other duties. Although Mr. Gould
was, on his arrival in the Colony, gazetted as an
Assistant Crown Solicitor, in accordance with the
terms of his appointment as conveyed to me in your despatch referred to at the beginning of this
paragraph, it has recently become desirable, on account of his more frequent appearances in the courts as counsel, to give him his proper status: I have accordingly revoked, by notification in
the Gazette, his appointment as an Assistant Crown Solicitor and have appointed him to be Crown Counsel, with effect from 28th September, 1938. Since Mr. Gould's status in the Colonial
Legal Service has thus been changed ab initio from that of a solicitor to that of a barrister,
I am prepared, subject to your approval, to accede to his request that his salary be adjusted to £850 a year with effect from 28th
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