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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1941

IMMIGRATION OFFICE REPORT

(Continued from Page 1)

order him to terminate it. The visit the main office at Marina;

Kong currency further complicat-supplemental agreement was the House, the passport and deposit SHELTERS

fact that

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|HONGKONG & SHANGHAL

BANKING CORPORATION,

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Authorised Capital

Issued and Fully Paid-up'...820,000,000 Reserve Funds:-

Sterling

Hong Kong Currency Re-

serve

Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

$50,000,000

.£ 6,500,000

.$10,000,000

$20,000,000!

HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.

BOARD OF DIRECTORSİ Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman, W. H. Lock, Esq., Deputy Chairman,

O, Miskin, Esq.,

J. K. Boundeld, Esq.,

L. J. Davios, Eug„, .. Hon. Mr. T. E Pears

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Amoy

Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn

the staff had more experience and in London.

Bangkok the pressure of work was less, "I visited four East End shelters

Batavia but the system as in

the rald Bombay operation last night just before "As regards staff Mr. Forrest found himself from the very beed to be adequats, and we see no them there were more

when we visited the office appear began," he said, "and in three of Calcutta

children Chatoo Canton ginning beset by difficulties.

AS! Mr. N. L. Smith said in the course

reason why the department should | than adults.

Colombo not hava

if operated normally

"I think the question will arise Daires of his evidence "We did our best

Foochor had been instituted; and perhaps, he may not have to do something Bankow only a proper accounting system for the Minister of Health whether Haiphong someone a little less temperamen-more than continue on the volun-Harbin tal than Mr. Forrest had been in tary basis of evacuation in certain charge.

vulnerable areas.

"The under-fives ought to go away, even if the mothers have to go with them. Some of them, In railway arch shelters, are actually sheltering under mi.it- ary objectives."

takten

Kloilo

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ed the situation. It was un comedy for any such 'unfortunate, refund office and the depot al avoidable that

officers of state of affairs. We can draw no West Point. Even at that time, boarding squads, though un-other conclusion from Mr. For-when the flood of applicants was

handle rest's failure to take any advice, obviously ebbing, there secured, should have to very large sums of money in all administrative, legal or financial, steady stream of visitors and we sorts of currencies. No one could before executing such an agree were able to examine and test the accurately estimate just how ment, from his failure to report system from the first application much money would be taken in its existence and from the later for a permit form to the issue of by way of deposit or how much execution of the supplemental the completed permit.

The sys- Lord Horder, the King's would have to be refunded on agreement. For the delegation of tem, in spite of the extremely un- any particular day or

any the power to grant immigration favourably surroundings in which physician, who spoke at a voyage of a ship. In such ctr- documents or for the issue of per- it had to be carried out, struck luncheon at the Overseas cumstances we do not regard as mits for which there is no statu- us as essentially a good one, aut Club in London, expressed A... Compton, Esq., K. 8. Morrison, Ead heinous Mr. Forrest's expedients tory authority there can of course quately safeguarding Government | to find the cush which had to be be no excuse. The whole trans- property and public moneys and his concern afterwards at Hon. Mr. B. Dodwell, Hon. Mr. A. L. Shielda, got to satisfy depositors, nor the action has left on our minds a issuing permits to the public with-

number of children officers profoundly bad impression, and out avoidable delay. In the early the perforce his had to handle large sums though is, in our judgment, quite indefen-days no doubt the system did not still left in congested areas

work so smoothly as later when Anancially unsecured. Such situa-sible. tions are

apt to arise when a Recruitment Of Staff new system is enforced, and until some suitable arrangement could be made for collecting deposits for before passengers embarked Hong Kong some such expedient in order had to be resorted to to avoid protracted delays."

to get you staff but it was not easy "Of the whole matter of the ap-

at that time. The War Taxation pointment of Mr. Kobza as gener- Department had. I think, al agent we take a very Rrave view adverse to Mr. Forrest, We the cream off most departments in the previous twelve months." Mr. cannot resist the conclusion that. Forrest therefore had, to a large having advocated the grant of

extent, to build up a new organ- monopoly "with the enthusiasm of isation with material which had.

Mr. Forrest, despite a convert", the adverse decision of the Gov-previous training or experience of Government methods. He him- self has told us that the propor- tion of untrained to trained per- sonnel was never less than ten to one. A first advertisement in- serted in the local press, for which Mr. Forrest was in no sense responsible, calls for applications for the post of Assistant Immi- gration Officer at a salary of $450 per mensem (inclusive) and pro- vides that applicants shall be British subjects of pure European his usual politeness, patience and descent between the ages of 21| consideration and that it was only and 28 and of a certain education-occasionally, and then, in part at al standard. We cannot refrain least, because of ill-health and from the comment that thus over-work, that he lost his tem- limit the field of a selection by per and transgressed as we have excluding the

of great majority found in an earlier paragraph. possible local candidates to whom the calary offered would be a real hardly suitably intelligent and Impeccable

to

!

ernor in Council. determined persist in the appointment of Mr. Kobza as agent in a preferential position to other agents. The pro- vision in the agreement for its termination by three months notice is one give rise to misgivings in Mr. Forrest's heart, for Government on learning of the agreement might

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"WE RECOMMEND THAT THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM BE ABAN- DONED OR DRASTICALLY RE- STRICTED AS SOON AS CON- VENIENTLY MAY BE.

"Mr. Forrest has been found by us to have been at fault in two major matters; and on one minor matter, that of discourtesy and lack of tact. We refer to that as a minor matter only because we are satisfled that Mr. Forrest is normally a most courteous and polite man, that in very many of his dealings with the public as

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"As regards the first of his two MUDA ISLANDS AND NEW- major faults, in our opinion Mr. FOUNDLAND WILL BE COM- Forrest is not in himself to blame; MISSIONED WITHIN THE NEXT THE CHARTERED BANK but rather the Government who FORTNIGHT OR MONTH. appointed him Immigration Of-

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AND CHINA. ficer. We are satisfied that Mr. ington yesterday by the Secretary "Ultimately a staff was assem- Forrest is lacking in business of Navy, Col. Frank Knox. bled, largely consisting, as far as knowledge, and in administrative

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Islands will be posts are concerned, of Mr. For- he is possessed of a temperament commissioned on July 1-Reuter. rest's own personal friends. We which renders him entirely un-} hasten to say that to the appoint- suitable to be placed in charge of ment of friends simpliciter We a new department, with its in- take no objections, and there is no evitable worries and complexities, ground for suggesting that to any as he is lacking in the qualities of his friends Mr. Forrest extend- of discipline and self-control ed any preference in the depart- Mr. Forrest has been in the ser- ment. On other grounds. how-vice of Government for over ever, the staff selected gives cause twenty

Government' years and for great dissatisfaction, Among must have been fully cognisant 1.00 the European Assistant Immigra- of his failings in these directions.

tion Officers are two whose short- "For his second fault no such 1.00' comings have already been report- excuse can be found. We enter-

ed to Government. When at the,

tain no doubt that he deliberately, to further his own ends and give 1.50 end of November, 1940, Mr. For-

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FOREIGN EXCHANGE and "General Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS recelyed for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other Currencies at rates which will jbe quoted on application, de

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with in terest allowed at rates obtainable on application.'

The Bank's Head. Office in London.. undertakes Executor and Trustee busi ness, and claims recovery of Britain Income Tax overpat, on terms which may be ascertained, at any of the Agencies and Branches.'

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being a party to the supplemental agreement, did his best to render nugatory any orders which he might be given when the exis- tence of the agreement with Kobza came to light. Mr. Forrest In our opinion, has proved himself unfit for the position of head of this, or of any other department, and we recommend that Govern- ment give the most careful con- sideration to the question of his "We have received and inves- retention in the public service. tigated a number of complaints | containing allegations of discour- Unhelpful Attitude

to members tesy shown

of the

"Throughout the evidence wel public by Mr. Forrest or members 2.40 of his staff. It is only fair to say, have heard we have been struck however, that we also received a by the unhelpful attitude. to- 2.80 number of tributes to the invar-wards Mr. Forrest and his needs 1.00 laule courtesy, patience and help- shown by some other départ- fulness extended to the writers on ments and in particular by the 1.60 their visits

to the Immigration | Treasury and the Secretarial. Mr. Office. To get this question in its Forrest's evidence to us lays proper perspective one must ra- great stress on this point, and. In

STOREMAN FINED member the conditions under our opinion, rightly. The Ales which Mr. Forrest and his staff which we have read, as well as

Albert Hamid Harteam, 30, 9.00, were working, in grossly inade- the oral evidence taken by us, storeman, was fined $10 or one quate accommodation, surrounded show a marked Inclination to let month by Major A. N. MacFadyen 13.00 by a clamorous mob at applicants, things alone, hoping against hope, at the Central Magistracy this Austin-Metallurgy Of The Com, and at the back and call of every no doubt that order would arise morning, for the theft of four Kraus And Hunt-Mineralogy).

one in the building. Of all the out of chaos. There is a notice- gallons of linseed all from the Snoji-Chemicals Of Commerce..

2.70 complaints we received and in- able tendency to write mordant Aberdeen Naval Base yesterday. Graham-Automobiler Guide.

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