 Koon-Teck appeared before the commission and told them of how he retired from service in disappointment.While he had applied to join the Colonial Legal Service in 1936, it was only four years later (1940) that he was told he had been appointed.He informed The Commission that he was acting Registrar of the Supreme Court, Singapore, in 1936, when he applied to join the Colonial Legal Service, and was only told he had been appointed to that service four years later, in 1940.