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26.11.86
8.30 12.15 pm
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And it depends on what procedure is adopted after we have worked out some secure way of doing the job. It may be, whether this will take time at the counters or whether there will be some backroom check I don't know, but there will have to be some check which will require some staff resources. So the point is that some resources will be required. Slowing down passenger clearance at departure level at the airport at peak periods is a thing which we have to be very, very careful about, it's very critical, and our staff are very expensive, and even if we've only got to take on a few extra staff to keep up our present pace of work, in the long run, by the time we take pensions and everything else into account, the cost is going to be more than a million dollars.
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CHAIRMAN: Well, we'll discuss that point later. Mr Chan.
MR CHAN: Yes.
I do see your reasons for objection about Alternatively, may I ask you if you don't add extra work to the immigration staff. For example, you take the airline altogether, the security company, and we do just like the Australian system does - people buy stamps, $20, Australian dollars and of course this is
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handed over to the immigration officer and that will make the immigration officer, sort of, do extra work; but if we just stick it
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tion office they just stamp it, and of course the selling of the
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stamps wouldn't be employing immigration officers, because that would be, sort of, under-employing people of high salary say, for example,
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somebody in the Post Office or something like this, sells the stamp 31 HK$120, the passenger puts it on the travelling document and then
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you have to frank the passport anyway and just frank the stamp. Would that be more acceptable?
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Well, that would be an entirely different system
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