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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE
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It may have been done, but I was under a belief that
Mr RowenRowlands, who was Assistant Secretary, opened the letters.
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When were you Acting Secretary, how many years ago ? Last year for about two or three months. It was just before Mr Woodcock came back, and Mr Harmer had gone to the Magistracy.
As far as you know, whần you were M. 0. H., all the 15660 letters addressed to the M. 0. H. were addressed to you personally ↑
Yes. So far as I know all letters addressed to me in closed envelopes are opened by me. I frequently go out
for two or three hours, and when I cons back, I find a bundle of letters on my desk.
And you never have authorised, ar rhody to open your bb1 letters ?
I have never authorised anybody to opeh ny letters. Of course, if a thing comes in in an envelope which is not stuck down, the envelope ie Babie
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But a closed envelope would only he opened by yourself ↑ You.
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as regards the despatch boxea. I presume that all papers from the Senior Inspectors are contained in that? Yes, unless they are confidential. If they are marked "confidential", they are put in a sealed cover.
But all other papers, - the houses to be examined for 15664
overcrowding, we will say, - are sent in the box, and they are opened by an India or Chinese clerk in the office ?
Yes.
Did it never occur to you that possibly a good deal ofiskb5- Que l'akage might have occurred through the clerks or.