The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday March 9 1942

Typwriting machines were introduced in the offices of the Board of Inland Revenue only in the eighteen-eighties and that after a “ battle royal with the Treasury.” In 1888 there was only machine in the Admiralty with no one to operate it ! Many of the old evils have disappeared with the introduction of the competitive system but the civil service mind with its devotion to routine remains. [...] An application for restitution is not an applcation in execution and there cannot be the slightest doubt that proceedings by way of restitution are taken as the result of a suit and not by the institution of a suit nor can they be said to be the continuation of a suit. [...] The Court should before granting leave exercise a judicial discretion as to the prpriety of the compromise or the reference to arbitration in the interest of the minor (r lunatic. [...] The Court must have materials before it and nothing should be concealed from the Court in a matter like this and the materials must satisfy the mind of the Court that the action proposed is for the benefit of the minor or the lunatic. [...] But if that is the only object of the preliminary enquiry the accused is not at all prejudiced if the same result is obtained in the course of the examination of the witness during the trial.