CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941 — Page 109

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strangers to me before their appointment, and whom I have only

learned to trust as a result of my experience of their work,

I must add that never have I been led, in the midst of almost

universal suspicion created by the racketeering which sprang up

on every hand, to suspect any of these so hand-picked. On the contrary, they have without exception shown the greatest possible loyalty not only to myself personnally but also to their duty as

public servants. I had intended to hand in at this point a list

which I shall send later of the officers whom I have dismissed from

the service of the department and the reasons for their dismissal.

I cannot refrain from quoting one example of the service which

these men gave; I discovered accidentally that entirely on their

own initiative my senior Chinese staff began once a fortnight to

round off a very hard-day's work with a tea party in the office,

and that this tea party was convened not at all for social purposes

but to discuss methods of rectifying such of the public complaints

as seemed to be well