CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941 — Page 197

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A. That is right.

A.

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when you received these monies could you have paid them into

Goverment as cashs

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Several times I did to the Immigration Officer and said I have so many applications here and the value of the permits would be so Luch, could I pay in the money. I was told it was impossible because it was not Goverment money and the shroffe could not

handle any money except Government money.

You did not consider that you were handling Government monies?

A. I did not.

A.

When did you think these monies became Government monies.

Until I received the permits and paid them over.

Were you in fact then and are you in fact now in a position to

provide security if desired:

Yes.

Tere you willing to provide security?

A. Yea.

A.

Are you willing now to provide security,

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Did it ever occur to you this agreement was signed that security

would be required?

A.

In that letter which I referred to a few minutes ago

here now.

it is not

Chairman:

That is in your letter of December which you have not got.

A

Yes.

kr. valer-Blyth.

When the agreement was signed did it occur to you that a security

would be required:

I thought it might be possible and I actually mentioned it to Mr. Forrest. I had discussed this with ir. Forrest long before I saw

Mr. Pudney.

When I mention security I mean that you should deposit security or

provide a bond:

A. Yes. I thought of the possibility. I even told the shroffs who I

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