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2.30 p.m. - 11th March, 1941.
Mr. Forrest. Referring to the subject of these deposit receipts
have you ever been on board a ship at the time of immigration of
deck passengers?
Mr. Pudney:
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No.
You have I suppose then to depend on your imagination as to how the actual practice of issuing these deposit receipts is achieved?
Yes. I might say that I have seen a little of this in coming
back from Macao. I have seen a crowd of people there. I have
not seen the actual deposits received.
The crowd is not very orderly?
These seemed reasonably orderly, but the ship had only just
stopped
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they had not been kept waiting.
I have figures kept on an average for 5 days when careful records were taken which showed that the average time for a passenger
you saw nothing inconsistent
paying a deposit was one minute
with that?
No, nothing inconsistent with that.
I suppose you agree if much longer time was given per passenger it
would result in holding up ships quite considerable?
Not knowing how many passengers come per ship I could not say.