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expedients in the face of a hostile public, such petty difficulties threaten disaster, collectively they show a want of apprecution of the work of a very much overburdened department, and have added much to the difficulties with which I have had to
contend.
(iv) The co-operation of other departments was not in all cases
1 all that might legitimately be expected. To some must give hearty thanks for what they did to help me; the Harbour Master nover failed to lend whatever assistance he could in the way of information and advice, the Chairman of the Uruan Council lent premises as far as he was able to do so; Sú also did tim uperin- tendent of Imports and Exports, though himself hard pressed; the Postmaster General not only lent me his copy of General Orders until my own could be prepared in usable shape, but allowed his first clers to undertake that work for me, and frequently spared the time of a very able detective on his stuff to carry out in- vestigations into malpractices among my staff, as well as supply- ing my staff with prompt notice of arrival of ships; the Censors co-operated in breaking rackets by informing me of matters coming to their notice. It would not be fair to exolude mention of the help given by the Hanager of the Railway and his Chief Mechanical Engineer. in other cases appreciation of co-operation must be severely qualified; certain sections of the Police Department were most helpful and in fact indispensibly so; I gratefully include in this group besides the Commissioner of Police himself, the detectives of the C.1.D. and the Emergency Unit, on whose services I called with embarassing frequency. Hy relations with the Special Brunch were less harmonious. 1 was requested by tuck to take over work which did not scem to fail within the scope of immigration control; there was unnecessary delay in bringing to my notice the existence of a speciul arrangement with kacau regarding dispensa· tion from holding of passports, and in dealing with the matter after it had been brought to my notice; there was even more delay in supplying me with a copy of the standing orders for passport
examination which were very urgently required for the instruction
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