Lord Parmoor:-

The appellant has been for several years the owner of the La Gloria estate in the ward of Upper Caroni, in the Island of Trinidad. The respondent the Honourable Samuel William Knaggs, C. M. G., was at all material dates the acting Governor of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago, and the respondent the Honourable Arnauld de Boissiere was at all material dates the head of the Immigration Department of the said Colony and the Protector of immigrants. The question involved in the appeal is whether an order made by the acting Governor for the transfer of the indentures of the immigrants indentured on the said La Gloria estate is a valid and effective order. This question was answered in the negative by Blackwood Wright, J. and in the affirmative by the Supreme Court sitting in appeal. The contention of the appellant is that the order of Black-wood Wright, J., was correct, and that the order of the Supreme Court should be reversed.

The Immigration Ordinance No. 161, as amended by subsequent ordinances, contains the provisions applicable to the introduction and employment of immigrants in the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago. S. 203 provides:

"If at any time it appears to the Gover