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is to provide for the difficult anacs of entrants arriving
without the requisite documents, though otherwise admissible
and to secure that such entrants should make applications
for the documents appropriate to their osse after arrival in
the Colony, and then have their casee decided in the usual
mennor. The method is in the nature of a concession to special
Cases, and was, to judge from the wording of the firet line
of 8.9 of the Ordinence and paragraph 43 of Mr. Kiddlebrook's
Report, which never intended to become a regular system of
admission, which however it has become. As a ey ten it he
everything against it; it is clumsy and wasteful of time,
adding an extra routine to the procedure of receiving and
adjudication on an application and issuing a permit; it slowe
down work of examination at the stage in which it should be
quickest in the interest of early release of shipping; it
encuribers with responsibility of anfe custody of large amounts
of onsh a mamber of officers whose prime function is not the
handling of cash at all; and it is open, especially when era-
ployed wholcenle, to the grestest dangers both in the matter
of proper return of the security money, and in the mat er of
identifiortion of the person secured with the man who later
under the same name makes application for immigration docum
ments as a relosse of the security. The matter is dealt with
at length in my minute of 23.1.41 in 0:0.2863/41.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the wholesale
use of this expodient added enormously to the work and to the
complexity of the I. office. A complete now section specially
for the work of repaying deposita moncys had to be organized:
without setual experience it could not be forcacen what
numbers would tender desh security instead of conforming with
the Ordinance's requirements before embarking for H.R.; but
it was a very mon apparent that even the percentage of pa8801F
gers arriving in possession of documents from Anonu, where
the 1.0. meinteins a fully equipped office for the purpose of
roceiving a pllcstions and issuing permits, showed in the
first month no appreciable incrcase, I understand that the