CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941 — Page 262

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MA TSUI CHIU: (Evidence interpreted)

Chairman:

Q.

Mr. Ma, you are a Justice of the Peacet

A.

Yes.

છે.

A.

Q.

A.

How many years have you resided in Hong Kong?

I was born in Hong Kong.

Your complaint here is that on 18th January you endorsed an application for a four year certificate signed both as manager of the Kung Yau Yuen firm of which you are in charge and also as a justice of the peace?

Yes.

Thereon you continue, the Deputy I.C. accepted your endorsement, while the 1.0. refused it and called for the endorsement of the Commissioner

: of Customs, Kowloon, the applicant being a Customs officer

A.

Yes.

A.

You then took that matter up with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs

due

and it was in course settica and disposed ori

Yes.

How many years have you been a Justice of the Peace:

Since 1925.

Do you happen to know if your name and style of Justice of the Peace appears in the local directory?

Yes.

2.

I come to your second case. A lady member of your family and her

servant went to Macau?

A. Yes.

There they received their, what purported to be, entry permits through the office of the hotel at which they stayed?

A.

Yes.

. And armed with these permits they came back to this Colony on 1st March

A.

Yes.

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These certificates turned out to be forgeries?

A.

One of the entry permits was examined three times by the officer and passed as a genuine one.

The other was rejected as a forgery?

A.

Yes.

nd the servant who held that forged passport was ordered to return to Macau?

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