CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941 — Page 301

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Mr. W.H. Chen.

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Through a clerical error, certain figures which I read before the

Commission on Thursday proved to be incorrect.

I therefore now ask leave to withdraw my former figures and to

substitute in their place those which I have now handed in.

issued.

In addition to these, I might add that 12,095 old forms were

At the same hearing, I was asked whether I could give the

I am now proportion of applications made through the General Agency.

in a position to furnish figures for the period as from February 13

to March 25:

Issued at Head Office

Of these, the G.A. share was

18,610 six-month

9,757

6,250 two-year

3,268

2,075 four-year

949

10,175 ten-year

4,059

50 one-year frontier passes

I cannot say for certain how many have been issued respectively

by the Macau Branch and in the New Territories but the following

permits have been issued to them:

Macau (from January 3 to March 26)

Six-month

Two-years

One-year

26,000

1,900

1,000

New Territories (from January 2 to March 18)

Six-month

Two-years

Four-years

Ten-years

One-year

3,300

1,100

100

100

1,200

Chairman: From this statement can you say now or can you easily

ascertain for us the number of permits of various kinds which were

issued before the commencement of the Ordinance?

Mr. Chen. That should not be difficult to obtain.

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