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You told us you had time to draft this agreement yourself.
That takes considerable time.
Mr. Forrest: Not so very much.
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Perhaps I am wrong.
I was speaking as a draftsman.
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the additional time in reporting what you had done or were
contemplating doing would be comparatively speaking very small
indeed.
I am not so sure. Every minute counted.
And there were other things which you considered more important
than reporting, more urgent?
Definitely.
Than reporting the action you contemplated, or the action you
had taken, to Government?
Undoubtedly.
Every minute of my time was taken in ensuring that
that Department kept going. I have exhausted my superlatives,
as I said once in some minute in trying to induce people who had
never visited the Department to realize the pressure of work.
In my 21 years' experience of Government work I have never
worked in conditions like it, or anything approaching it.
Mr. Woo: The reason which has been advanced for granting the general
agent the almost exclusive privilege of supplying photographs
is the desirability of securing uniformity in size and other
respects.
Mr. Forrest:
That reason has been advanced, where?
Mr. Woo: From the minutes.
Chairman:
There are, I think, minutes of yours, Mr. Forrest, in the file which I have here, CSO.2863/40, in which you say it
is very desirable indeed that we should have a virtual monopoly.
There is the size, the thickness of the paper, the durability
of the photograph, even the colour.
Mr. Forrest: In my minute of 11th December?
Chairman: There are a series of them. The first on the 1st December.
And all those matters are mentioned.