CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941 — Page 161

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monopolies, each one having a conopoly for a certain

This is something of an entirely different nature.

Your muggestion that the record made here by the Clerk of

Council is not complete and accurato?

It is not complete. It never is complete. It never cen

complete.

And you did not feel that, in your relations with kr. Kobra

ao the general agent, you were in any sense bound by that

decision or that, in your own best intereste, you might be well

advised to resort what you had done?

In my own best interests I quite concede that I was taking a

risk. I wae well aware of that.

You had contampl÷ted that?

A. Undoubtedly,

Don't you think that self-preservation is a pretty strong power

in all of us? Didn't you think it might be as well to write a

zainute and say you were doing it*

I thought it ore important to got the work of the Department

dono than to take care of my own interests.

You had from 22nd December to 24th January, and thereafter,

before you took the second step and gave the general agent

those very comprehensive powers for a tem of as long as five

years, you had a further eight days. At no time did you consider

it wuld be either prudent or consonant with ordinary Government

practice to report your action to Government?

ight days pounds a very long time; twenty-two sounds longer;

but twenty-two days when sny person is working at the pace at

which I was working in these days is a very short time inised.

At no tirao had I five mirates' leimure.