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Forrest: Hot necessarily. That has been his trade name for a
mber of years in lng Kong.
Chairman:
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Xe is not Loting here in any sense in his trade capacity
ould it not have been equally simple to open na scoount in
the name of ... von Kobina, the person controlling the General
Agency; and more consonant with this Agrement?
Flet the particular reasons for using that nsae vere I am
afraid I cannot answer.
Te will get that presently, he is it, Br. Forrest, if you
can answer this question which I think goes to the root of
this whole agency matter so far as I am excerned, why is it
that, feeling profoundly as you did that your own staff were
not above suspicium, that the ever-go cent was corrupt and
veral, that you were surrounded by rackets and maketeers
why in it that you were so convinced that ar, Kobza's general
agency would prove a solution of all these difficulties:
I ma never so convinced, I was convinced that it was the
best practical seune, short of zenopoly, which had been
refused me, of getting a closer control over the activities of
agents.
You mean lir. Kobza could exercise more close ccatrol over themS
then any member of your on staff ?
Yes, in that he was in a sense rather & come)titor of theirs, or a person raming along the same lines, than a person inside
the Immigration Office itself and liable to commuption.
You unde him a competitor. mtil that ment was he in any
sense a competitor? He is a well known photographer.
xactly. He was a con:etitor. ite is a competitor, not only
La photographer but also as having himself run an agency
under the name of the Kobra rttudios.
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He had one of the recognized agencies before this and you had found in your experiance of these agents that he was the most reliable.
I will not say that, sir - the most suitable.
..nd so you decided to appoint him the general agent and called
on other agents to be subxalasive and accountable to him?