Present:-
IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT INQUIRY.
10th March, 1941.
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10 a.m.
His Honour Sir Alasdair Duncan Atholl MacGregor,
Chief Justice (Chairman).
Mr. Charles Bernard Brown, A.C.A., J.P.
Mr. David Drummond, J.P.
Mr. Woo Hang-Kam, LL.B., J.P.
Mr. Kenneth Myer Arthur Barnett, J.P., Secretary.
Mr. Robert Andrew Dermod Forrest, Immigration
Officer.
Mr. John Pelly Murphy, B.A., LL.B., Assistant
Crown Solicitor.
Mr. Barnett, Secretary, read out the Proclamation appointing
the Commission.
Chairman: By a Proclamation of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government dated the 27th day of February, and made under the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, We
have been appointed Commissioners with the terms of reference
which you have just heard read.
Mr. Barnett, our Secretary, has already by notifica-
tion in both the English and the Chinese Press invited persons
who desire to give evidence to submit their names to him. We
propose to sit in public unless any person who desires to give evidence wishes to give it in camera, in which case we shall sit behind closed doors, subject always to the right of any person affected by such evidence to be present and to put questions to
the witness. This invitation I wish to repeat and to stress.
It is our hope that we shall be able to sit continuously both
morning and afternoon in order to complete the hearing of
evidence at an early date and to report to His Excellency as soon
as possible thereafter.
We shall only be able to do so if members of the
public who have information germane to our terms of reference will come forward early and give it to us.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.