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The outer section consisted of those police, I believe there were some
8 or 12 Englishmen and 5 Russians - and a number of Chinese, I don't
W
know how many whose business it was to go on ships for the purpose of
I have had seconded to my department the 5 Rus-
examining passports.
sians; the English police have been taken off to other duties.
Did you apply for the assistance of these Europeans to train your men?
I did.
Q. What reply did you get?
A.
Q.
A.
I got very little assistance, as I said perhaps too briefly in my memo-
randum. My men reported to me that they could learn very little from
the Europeans as they were too busy examining the passports to explain
anything. There were other difficulties, the difficulty in securing
from the police a copy of the standing orders for passport examination,
for instance.
What I had in mind was that the previous passport inspection squad were
especially qualified and it occurred to me that they could have been of
particular assistance to you and relieved you of all that passport in-
spection until you had instructed your own staff in the matter?
Exactly, I would have welcomed it. I do not consider I had all the
assistance that was reasonably possible.
Mr. Yuen Tat Lau, Clerk, Immigration Department.
Mr. Forrest: Mr. Yuen you have been in the Government service?
A. Since 1930.
Q.
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Q.
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Q.
A.
Q.
Immediately before coming to my department you were in the I.& E. Dept?
Yes, statistical branch.
You were transferred to my department on the day it opened?
18th November.
And you have done clerical work in that department, particularly typing?
Yes.
You were recommended to me as an expert typist?
Yes.
In addition to that work you have done a certain amount of book-keeping?
A. Keeping the Vote Ledger.
Q.
What are these two books you have here? (Producing two books)
A.
The Vote Ledger.
Q.
notice the first date in that is November 1940. When were these
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