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PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

Registry

No. HKK 14/30

DRAFT

LETTER

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To:-

His Excellency

Sir David Trench, GCMG., MC.

Government House,

HONG KONG.

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From

Sir L. Monson

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

Many thanks for your helpful letter of 5 May about

the Judiciary.

We are grateful for this full account of the

considerations you had in mind when you decided to

shelve the proposals for creating a separate post of

and

Judge of Appeal or a separate Court of Appeal. In

particular, we agree with the view taken by Rigby to

which you refer in the third paragraph of your letter.

*

As regards filling the vacancy of Senior Puisne

Judge, voronammox fa magandire that Scholes, should

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the job, particularly as Blair Kerr will have an

opportunity of taking over from Scholes next year.

As promised in my telegram No. 355, a Saving Despatch

in reply to your Despatch No. CR.1/1749/53 II of

5 February is being sent to you in the bag leaving

here on Saturday, 30 May.

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