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If I said that the hairdresser's duties are simply to preside over a table at which he himself and anumber of others are engaged on signing permits, giving the final check to the correctness and details entered in the permits and sign them, you would not dispute that?
No.
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Yes.
In fact the word 'secretary' might be a misnomer?
Q. You don't think the secretary had duties other than that?
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No.
Q. Everything you have said depends on the word 'secretary' ?
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Yes.
You told the Commission just now I think that you were not notified what security officers authorised to collect money had to put up?
Yes.
Do you remember an occasion, I think it was 10th January, very shortly before the enforcement of the Ordinance, when I came to
your office to discuss the question of the form of deposit receipts?
A. Yes.
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This question was mentioned at that time, the question of security for officers collecting money?
Yes.
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I mentioned to you that these people were senior officers?
They were not all government officers they were only temporary
employees
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I was very vague as to who was to collect deposits.
All I can remember was that they were to be University graduates
and you did not feel jaatified in asking them for security.
We had a discussion on the meaning of 'station and we decided that
should apply to the government officer whose duty it was to go on board and collect deposits from ships?
A. Yes.
Q. Have you a copy of Colonial Regulations there?
A. Yes.
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