A.
it would be
id:quate.
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That which had been used in the passport office?
Exactly, an extension of that.
Had you ever told Mr. A.J.C. Taylor that his suggested books
would not be suitable?
A.
That I cannot recollect.
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what about your register system, for all these different permits in the different hands through which they were passing? moment before I come to that may I pursue the last subject. You have told us that you asked for and obtained further time from the 17th December to 15th January, and I suggested to you that the Governor and others who were mutually interested imagined that by that application you meant that by the latter date the 1.0.
Now, on the 18th December would be able to function effectively.
you will remember tlie Chinese Chamber of Commerce pressed for a
further postponement?
A.
Yes.
And that you strongly opposed it?
A.
Yes.
A.
A.
Was that not liable to give the casual reader the impression that you were quite satisfied that by 15th January everything would
be ready to go ahead?
To casual readers, but I don't think it necessarily bears that
interpretation.
what other interpretation would you place on 1t7
That I was anxious to see the department in full function before I could come to grips with the roblems of what was required. There must, you knew, be many probleme that you would have to come to grips with, but surely the problem of the institution of a suitable form of accounting and book-keeping should not rank as
There is no different one of the problems you would have to face?
form of book-keeping required here from that in other departments, in the Post office for inat nce, which you well know?
The Fost Office which I well know, bears the closest analogy to
the case in my office.
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