CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941 — Page 312

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Chairman:

Mr. da Rocha, that is the whole of your complaint?

A. Yes.

Q.

first

I take it so far as your/visit to the Immigration Office, that regarding the five applications for entry permits is concerned,

you have no complaint to make at all? You saw Mr. Forrest and you

got the applications stamped urgent, and you went back the following

day and ght the permits?

A. My complaint is that I had to make the applications all over again.

They were lost and subsequently they appeared to have been recovered

because I was told I could get them back after I had returned the

others.

Q. That is not a complaint of incivility?

A.

No.

Q.

Just bad luck that the applications were lost?

A. I was very much surprised that they could have been lost, a bundle

of five applications is a pretty big bundle.

Q. As regards your second application, a visa for Mrs. Rocha and the

nurse, you complain there was incivility on the part of Mr. Forrest?

A.

Yes.

Q. And treatment of you as a Consul was not what you would have a right

to expect by such members of the subordinate staff?

A.

That is go.

Q.

A.

That is a reasonably complete resume of your complaint?

Yes.

Q. Then you have a complaint that you were told to go to the Agent

instead of doing it there and then?

Yes, and I could not recover the $1.00. It is not a question of the

money but one of principle.

Q. That is the general agent's province more than Mr. Forrest's.

A. Yes.

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