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Exospt under very oznaṛtional oirousteneas this ruling ought to be strictly adhered to. The høgtetrar General has under the Ordinance power to allow persons to mail earlier, but the anigrant paruonally gɛins nothing by being allowed no to s: 11 * rlier and it may mean th t he is not given a fair ohence to refuse.
a. As mentioned above the main object of the exacin- ation is to prevent persone being taken to Singerore by freud or without fully under: tanding the conditions under which they are going. To make oartain of this it is of vital importance to prevent the examination becoming storedtyped. The Boarding Eouse fokdes end runners study the methods of the persona eznsining and most emigrants before they sprear have been care- fully coached as to wint they ought to say and how they ought to answer the quantion put to them. The -xamining Officer
ought therefore not to allow the interpreter to continually give the sane explanation and sak the same questions. The austom at present le to tak emigrants in groups of six or more. Ka bught to explain to each group the general conditions and then examine one or more saigrant closely teking care by questions or otherwine that the others are following. It is quitelace and a waste of time to take people together if in
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the group 3 ar more different dininots are spoken. District Batchmen in charge ought to wake the Boarding Houses bring up groupe all talking the same dielnot.
9. In questioning emigrante il le advisable to ask questiona with a view to finding out why a person is going abroad. A Sumber of persons ga ebroed house they have lost money in enabling or have got into trouble of nose kind and are afraid to go home. By asking questione quite outside mmigration it is often possible to prevent unsuitable perrona enigrating. 1t is importent to stop an for a ponsible young boys who have been working as apprentioas in shops in Canton,
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