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administration.

It is frequently not appreciated in the New Hebrides,

s of course sometimes elsewhere, that it is a judge's inescapable

duty to administer the law as he finds it and not as the executive arm

of government, or indeed himself, might like it to be. Minor friction

between the judge and the administration has arisen from time to time.

It is not surprising in the circumstances of the Condominium.

not think, without attaching any blame to the judge, that any judge

could be expected to escape wholly unscathed."

I do

Mr Trainor made a good impression on Sir Vincent Evans when he

called upon the latter recently.

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July 1972.