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Chairman:
And secondly, you complain that in January the general agency was
established and the general agent had the exclusive right so far as
photographs for immigration permits were concerned?
A. Yes.
Q. Whereat, you say, "public feelings were excited and highly indignant" ?
A. Yes, and all the studios held a meeting.
Q. These are your two complaints?
A. Yes.
Q. The cancelling of your own right to guarantee people?
A. As it was in the newspaper that Kobza would be appointed as general
agent and the other agents would be cancelled.
Q. You know that other agencies have not been cancelled, and that the only
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difference is that they go to the Immigration Office through the
general agent?
As I am chairman of the Photographic Guild I had to hold meeting to
discuss the matter.
What I wish to ascertain is if I have correctly summarised the two
complaints?
Yes, they are correct. On the 16th January I sent a letter to the
Immigration Officer asking on what ground did he appoint Kobza as general
agent and why he cancelled the other agents, but we have not received any
reply yet.
Mr. Forrest.
You have told the Commission that the public were very excited and
indignant about the alleged grant of a monopoly to Mr. Kobza ?
Yes.
Did you yourself have any part in exciting the public and making them
indignant?
A.
No.
Q. May I refer you, Mr. Wong Tong, to an article which appeared in various
Chinese newspapers on 26th January one day after the signature of
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the agreement between the general agent and myself, and which bears your
signature?
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