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instructions for the reason that he was a Eurasian?
Yes.
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Q. And that was the only reason?
A.
A.
I may say that after experience of his work I found other reasons,
and that is why I did not protest.
In so far as concerns your treatment since you became an active officer
of the department, have you still stipulated for British subjects of
pure European descent? Or has that been relaxed?
No, that has been abandoned.
Mr. Drummond; Do you know the number of people who actually applied as a
A.
A.
A.
result of this?
As far as I remember, Mr. Middlebrook, Mr. Lee and I examined some 20
applicants of whom roughly half were rejected as unsuitable and one
who was in the army and could not be released.
Are there any of the applicants from that advertisement still in the
Immigration Office?
Yes.
Mr. Robert Martin Arme Poinsot, Asst. Immigration Officer.
In reference to the incident mentioned by Mr. H.R. Sequeira I beg to
make the following statements
It must have been after 2 p.m. as far as I remember, on January 30th
that Mr. Sequeira came to the Immigration Office through the back door.
At that time, there was quite a rush of the crowd on the front en-
trance of the office which Mr. W.H. Chen had to control at the same
time a number of people were coming in through the back door into the
office, I had to control this entrance. A gentleman came in amongst
other people and walked by himself into the office, I went to him and
asked him what his business was and told him that the entrance he had
used was only for Entry Permit applicants who wished to have their
photos taken on the Mezzanine floor and agents. I remembered he men-
tioned the name of someone in the Staff, this was a current excuse for
members of the public to gain an easy admittance in our Office, and
this was the only excuse I could obtain from this gentleman
I then
politely but firmly replied to him that he had to leave the promises
and come in through the proper entrance, an namely, the front door.
The Immigration Officer on whose instruction both Mr. W.H. Chen and
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