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ir. Forrest: The minute of 1st Deacriber:
t that time I was not
convinced that a monopoly, or anything more than a discreet number of competing agencies was desirable. I tried to be judicial and put forward everything that could be said for and against the proposal of the monopoly and finally I cest my vote against it. If that had appeared in my lator nimite of 11th December - the question of uniformity of type of photograph then it would have. been more difficult to answer.
By that time
I had come to consider the question of uniformity in type of photograph as relatively unimportant. In the earlier mimite
I think I anid there had been a consirable improvement.
verybody Beams to have become aware by now of
type of
photograph required and we will seldom have unsuitable
photographs offered.
2001 All the application forms issued by the Government are in both in 11sh and Chinose?
Forrest:
Tep.
ill a form be accepted if it is filled up in Chinese only? Yes.
If that has been adopted it would do away with the difficulty of Language, if forms 1lled up in the Chinese language are accepted in the Immigration Office, because all those forms might be filled up in Chinese and sent to the Immigration Office where the alarks would be able to translate them in leisure
20LISTITE.
A. The words "leisure moments" sound sardonic!
they would not have time to translate them?
Ve have always
We have many clerks already translating. accepted applications put in in the Chinese language only. Can you supply us with the following particulars:
(1) The rauber of completed applications handed in by
the general agent since the inte of his appointment? Obviously, not without notice.