Secon day - 25th March, 1941.
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Present: His Honour ir Alasdair Duncan Atholl Macüregor, Chief
Justice, (Chairman).
Mr. Charles Bernard Brown, A.C.A.,.P.
Mr. David Drummond, J.P.
Mr. Hoo Hang-kam, LL.B.,J.P.
Mr. Kenneth Myar Arthur Barnett, J.P., (Secretary).
*. A. D. Forrest, Immigration Officer, and Mr. E. ». Pudney,
ccountant-General, attended.
Chairman: Mr. Forrest?
Mr. forrest: To ChaiNDANI
3ir, in presenting these remarks to the Commiasion I wish
your indulgence with one difficulty with which I met - that was the
difficulty in separating evidence from advocacy. I found it was
xit£ix really impossible to explain without at the same time defining
the action taken. I think the two things are complimentary in as
much as the circumstances under which I sorked were the main causes
for the adoption of certain methods and it was incumbent on me at
the same time to explain why these methods seemed to be the best that
could be adopted.
The genesis of the 1.0., so far as published documents are
concerned, is to be found in the Middlebrook deport of klst August,
1840; and to that document I shall make reference more than once in
what follows. But before going further I wish to call attention to
one or two pects of the deport itself. The first is of so general
a nature as easily to escape the reader's notice; I refer to a
certain doubtfulness which pervades the whole scheme; it is mu if
Mr. Middlebrook had said: "Here are the general lines on which you
can control your imigration, but the details you must build up and
fill out as you proceed and gain experience; they cannot be set out
a priori." so it is that he admits ignorance (para.13) to what
extent our population is migratory; of the extent to which junk
passenger traffic deserves attention (paras.30, 40 ani il), and of