Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 1, 1941.
CONSUL
ALLEGES
INCIVILITY BY
IMMIGRATION DEPT. THIS MORNING'S PUBLIC INQUIRY EVIDENCE
Alleged incivility on the part of Mr R. A. D. Forrest, the Immigration Officer, was the complaint levelled by Mr J. M. da Rocha, honorary Consul for Costa Rica, when he testified this morning at the public inquiry into the Immigration Department. Mr da Rocha declared that on one occasion when he entered Mr Forrest's office, the Immigration Officer told him to "get out". Mr da Rocha later said, when questioned by Mr Forrest, that as a Censul, he did not expect priority treatment but he did expect
consideration.
The Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mag-
Gregur nguin presided, the other members of the Commission being Mr D. Drummond, Mr C, Bernard Brown, Mr H. 1. Woo, and Mr K. M. A. flarnett, the secretary,
OFFICIALS
Rochu said that he (Mr Chen) had name was mentioned during the cortainly been very courteous all the hearing, and therefore the paper in time.
question was technically within. Its Photographers' Guild rights in giving an accurate and fuli Mr Wong Tong, Commissioner of report by mentioning the naine. I Overseas Affairs in the Chinese can only say that while it is no part of the Photographers Guild, sub consider the action National Government, and Chairman of the business of this Commission to of that allcer mitted a letter to the Commission was right or wrong, or whether he migration Officer put up Inquiring on what authority the Im-was at all important, I do deprecate
1 notice,
the use of names and the introduc- which was published in the Chinese tion of personalities llice that. It that his qualifications to
on February 20, to the effect would be much better to refrain Hranice { from personalities and refer to applentions for permits, wind been perront in Impersonal ways.
He also what right Mr Forrest: I beg to tender my the Immigration Officer hud to say apologies for mentioning the name at thut he was not ✡ fit and proper the hearing. person to guarantee applications.
Press
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Dr S. N. Chau was another] A few days later I handed fresh I was dealing with Mr Lo7-I did not witness this morning, when he applications to the
Immigration know that, but I expected you to tell complained that time was --Officer in person. He instructed a
Mr. Wong's second complaint was ime you were busy and to ask me to necessarily wasted in making told me to call for them the following with Mr Lo. Instead of that, you migration permits were clerk to stamp them "urgent" and go outside until you had
against the granting of exclusive finished rights, so far as photographs for Im- the immigration examinations day. did so and received the 'five told me to "get out."
1
concerned, on board ships,
entry permits.
I submit that what I said
to the General Agent. He said that On the February 16 I went to the "Please walt outside?" No. was blic feelings were excited and malgration Office to obtain a ve told me to get out and see a clerk. that, following a meeting of the Summary issued Jesterday, says:
Hongkong Stock Exchange Official You highly indignant at the action and for my wife's passpori as she wished At that time, you did not even know Guild, a letter was sent to the Incht 34 Loan, all the Insurance to to urgently to Kulangsu on M.
Business was reported in Govern- "Cremer" which was sailing on the
the purpose of my visit.
asking why Mr Kobza should be ap- Cements, and the demand continues. migration Omeer on January shares, Docks, Providents 22nd February. In addition I wished to obtain an entry permit for her
pointed General Agent and why other Other stacks are enquired for without Chinese nurse who was to recompany
gencles were eancelled. No reply resulting in business, her. The matter was urgent as the
to this letter was received. object of the visit was to visit a
Buyers nephew Mr Nichael Dulfy who was dangerously It in Amoy Hospital,
f
Dr S. N. Chou sold:
I am Justice of the Peace and possess a certificate of residence issued by the Immigration Ofice.
On Monday 10th March I returned to Hongkong from Maeno by the 55. "Kin Shan", I ether
and
passengers in possession of similar certificates proceeded to the gangway but we
Told To Get Out
V.
Did you happen to know whether time or not?-I cannot remember.
had my glasses on my nose at that
to see anybody as far as the door, If I tell you that I am quite unable would you accept that? No, because I was very near to you.
Bad Memory
Indignant Public
Air Forrest (to Mr Wong): You have told the Commission that the naut about the alleged grant publie was very excited and indig- monopoly to Mr Kobza? Yes.
of a
Did you yourself have any part in exciting the public and malding them indignant?-No.
news-
If I tell you further that I have an I saw Me M. W. Lo go into Mr extremely bad memory for faces, were told by a Chinese Immigration Forest's offer the door which is would you accept that?--No, I would Offleer that we would not be per- marked "private" and in fact not accept that. mitted to disembark until all those there are a number of clerks working
Would you accept my statement passengers who had passports had there-bit on seeing me the Immi-that when I saw you this morning. I landed.
and others with me and ration Officer without enquiring the did not know who you were?I can appeared in various Chinese
May Lrefer you to an article which accordingly to wait for at least 20 purpose of my visit, dold me
very not say, but you said "Good morning" papers on January 20, one day after minutes whilst those
with passports roughly to "get out" and to see
the to me and I said "Good morning" to the signature of the ogreement be Chinese clerk. jeft the ship.
you. The examination of the passports Accordingly I went to
tween the General Agent and. my- Chinese 31 was done by a European Immigra. clerk in the General Dice, and at-statement?--It is strange to me that Did you write that
Are you prepared to accept that self and which bears your signature? tlon Officer in the saloon and when I though I told him that my applica-I have lived here so many years that was the letter I cent to the Chinese article? That was allowed to lord my certificate tion was urgent and informed him of you did not know me, when every Council Members as Chairman of was examined by the Chinese Immi- the fact that I was
of the gration Officer at the gangway, so that jaisted upon proof of the urgency and sight,
Consul he in-Tom, Dick and Harry knows me by Gulk after we had held meeting. it would have been quite possible for I had to produce
letter showing that
And did you consider that the You told the Chinese clerk persons with certiflentes such as thine the circumstances I had related above you were a Consul7-Yes.
that charges you made there about Mr to have disembarked at
at the same time were facts. He then stated that he
Kobza were sufficient to excite the as those with
Meaning by that?-That I expect population? The passports.
granting would treat the matter as urgent and ed certain considerations and certain General Agency to Mr Kobza affect-
of Questioned by Mr. Forrest, Dr
VİSR for my wife's to understand by Sir Robert Kole-rendy, but that with regard
fend them. wall that no distinction was made nurse's entry permit, I must go bolween passports and entry permits see the "General Agent" it Sa In such a case. His sole complain Wyndham Street to whom he wrote was that a simultaneous examination memorandum as to the urgency of
the General Agent; he was informed I then left and sent my clerk to see
at the Agent's office that he would have to pay a fee of $2 (being the
Chau stated that he had been given that if I returned the next day the privileges and advantages over the led all the studios, and we had to de-
passport would be other
other people in the Colony.
could have been held,
Mr Forrest stated that it was ha} Instructions that passports were to
examined first, and that simultaneous examination was held
the matter.
That may be so, but the effect of
In other words, you expected to the
Article In Press to priority over the ordinary inhabl-
tants? I do not claim priority, but your article was sufficient to excite I claim conskleration.
the populace. Do you agree?--We What form of consideration?-In tried our best to bear the this particular case, I expected him sequences of the grant but as we that the cuse was urgent. to take my word for it, as a Consul, could not, we decided to write the
letter.
He would require a greater staff than statutory fee) and in addition $1 for he had.
The next witness called was Mrs, the General Agent's services in J. M. da Rocha of Messrs J. M. da that he was to return the next day.
connection with the matter, and Rocha & Co., who said:
Refused To Pay I am Honorary Consul for Costa
Rica in Hongkong:
Hard And Fast Rules
eiter,
con-
H.K. Banks $1,340
$3.15
Bank of East Asia $70 Union Ins. $430 Indo-Chinas (Pret) $80 Wharves X.D, SBE Docks X.D. $15,03 Providents $5.30 Hotels $3 Landy $32.25 Humphreys 50.70. Reallès $3 Teams $10.40 Youmatl Ferries $23.75 Lights "O" $8.30 Lights "N' $1.75 Electrics C. Ris $30.50
X.D. "O" $23.25.
Telephones.D. "N" $9
Cements $17.50
Ropes $7.20
Watsona X.D. $9.70 Entertainmeals X.D. $6:30
Sellers
Docks XD. $15.75 Providents $5.35
Sales
H.K. Govt. 34% Loan (1934) 04.50 Canton Ins, $223
Union Ins, $132.50 HK: Fire Ins. $106 Docks X.D. $15.70 Providents $5.30 Cements $17.76
STOCK EXCHANGE
ense of junior officers newly engaged duct would be coarse due to inck of You say here that if this General You will realise, especially in the Agency plan was adopted, the pro- and Imperfectly trained, that it was preparation? That was a letter to necessary to give certain hard and the Chinese Representatives and not Cast rules? But my interview was an article to the Press.
Cheerful Tendency with the chief clerk who happens to
The Chairman: Who sent it to the On the February 19 my clerk re-be this gentleman (Mr Walter Han-Chinese papers? I don't know.
LONDON Mar. 31 (Router).--On the Stock Exchange to-day there was. Chen).
Mr Forrest: Were you ever aware a cheerful tendency on the naval But he is not the chief clerk and that the appearance of this article success in the Mediterranean but the of a communicationprice movements were small though from Mr.
not aware,
I wrote to turned to Wyndham Street where he ing Officer submitting was told that the permit would not
the of
On January 8 Inst
Ave
for entry permits he.
with my guarantee of the applicante available for at least seven days never has been?-I do not know his was the subjes solicitors to the the market was generally firm.
and accordingly, on my instructions, as he the same gentleman who newspapers which printed ?--I was
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LONDON, Mar, 31 (Reuter)-"The astronomical" cost of the war to the British taxpayer is revealed in revenue returns issued to-night showing that Britain-has-spent--the record amount of £3,867,245,670 in the financial year which ended to night.
000 per day but the expenditure The total ordinary. revenue during the past three months averaged from all sources was £1,408,867, The, excess of expenditure over
nearly £13,000,000 per day. revenue was covered by borrowing.
bona fides. On
10th January the
my clerk asked for and received back received the official receipt for the the application.
told
you to take the nurse's entry
There was fair support for gilt- applications. On
edged nut I then
the Immigration permit application to Went
securities which closed slightly the
Was the phrase "As to who is be-higher, though a trifle below the best having heard
from the Office and saw the chief clerk to Agent?-He not only told me, but he
Generalhind the scenes.
this can be Im- on profit-takinif. Immigration Oncer I went there and whom I related what had happened wrote a memo to the General Agent. !agined" saw Mr Welll RA Assistant Im-and he then marked the application
part of your article? Yes, The Was there any reason, for that? And you still do not consider your broadened while home rails and Kaf- demand for industrials migration Officer and presented the form "urgent" and said I could have Yes,
article was sufficient to inflame the firs met some demand. receipt. After about an hour's the permit that afternoon.
You say that the General Agent passions of the public?-Had there ic search
In the afternoon I went back to the had performel no servies? Abbeen a reply to our letter of January higher among the foreign issues. Informed me that he could
Greeks and Japanese bonds were not trace the applications. I there-Immigration Ofee and after Lhid solitely-none except giving Upeared. As we got no reply, we got
16,-no-such-letter-would-have-op upon sent in Consul's visiting waited for over an hour the clerk receipt.
Wall Street was quietly firm. to Mr Forrest and was then brought produced the form of permit from You found the permit ready when
In touch with the Chinese Repre- where I was Consul nu carriere" and Iparently completed all the time. Ile following day when i found that the
it had been lying ap-you came to my office later? The sentatives and we were ask to send replied that i was Honorary Consul usic ed
fee of $2 which I re-permit was not ready I submitted to me for for Costa Rica. I then told him
Black Listed the fused to
showing him the Mr Chen again the urgency of the Day
A man and his wife were knocked 097, leaving a deficit of £2,458,- facts and he asked me to make fresh General Agent's receipt, but as he matter, and he wrote
You discovered that your applications and to cancel his receipt insisted, I paid under protest and the "urrency" on a form and was kind persons
name down on the Castle Peak road last 378,578. the word was on my black-list as one of the night and fatally injured. They died
The floating debt was increased by for the original ones.
The problem of the Chancellor of £1,324,000,000 during the year and He further clerk then threw the permit on the enough to ask me to call again, in not in future accept?-Way was I Hospital after sustaining serious in- his forthcoming budget is whether to compared with £1,199,200,000 a year
whose guarantees' I shall asked me in future to hand all counter in front of me.
carly this morning at the Kowloon the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, init now amounts to £2,813,410,000,“ the afternoon. applications to him personally.
On the following day my clerk
black-listed? Waited An Hour
try, by imposing new taxation, to ago.
To went to the General Agent's Office
When you discovered that, what and recovered the $2 which he had ready for some considerable time?-
You say that the permit had been action did you take?--I did nothing. Pui a bus driver was driving his bus expenditure and revenue, which has According to a police report, Wong narrow the enormous gap-belwoon paid us statutory fee, but he was When I called in the afternoon it was the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, Shamshuipo district, when Chan Yuu
You didn't for instance, appeal to along the Castle Peak road in the otherwise to be bridged by borrowing. refused refund of the $1 paid in ad- produced after I had been kept go to your solicitors, spproach the (66) and his wife. Ho Por (88), who ting forces,
The supply services, including the for £3,037,- dition, although no services had been waiting for an hour, So therefore, it Chinese Members or consult the were crossing the road. were knocks1113,000 of the rendered by the Agent,
must have been ready before.
iture as Chamber of Commerce?—No.
against Where had it Been lying?-Among
down. They were taken to the Kow£1,078,257,000 last year.
Navy's Warning Shots You did not write to me officially loon Hospital.
A cheering feature The Chairman (to Mr da Rocha); a number of books. I had to wait asking me to remove your name
of the returns is Arrested and detained by the the net increase of £350,078,404 in Naval authorities after a number of It isn't always naughtiness that take it that as far as your first visit and wait and when I kicked, it was from that list? We sent a letter on makes children go off their food. the five applications is concerned,
total ordinary revenue over last year's warning shots had been fired, a num to the Immigration Office regarding produced.
January 18 and did not receive a Civil Service Teams
yield. The revenue exceeded the ber of junk people were inter harded It is more often "Nerviness," you have no complaint at all? My mean by it having been ready forally before to my soon black- Service C.C. In League Cricket matches of new taxes including the Purchase Court this morning with entering a
I cannot understand what you reply.
Chancellor's estimate by over £48,- over to the Police and charged be- The following wil represent Civil 000,000 largely owing tired digestion and the need for applicatione all over again, I was hours, days or weeks? It was hours
1st XI v. Kowloon C.C. (away).-J. budget.
the success fore Comdr T. C. Stiff at the Marine I had to make the some complaint is
is that
considerable time. Was the stimulus of a new, palatable
on Saturday:
Tax which he Introduced in his July prohibited area the North Isantau told had been lost, but they were It was ready come hours before and
fichardson (Capti easily digested food.
Chunnel Minefield yesterday, ster K. Altwell, Baker, W. I. Colledo, F.VN. Fortescue, tal increases including Customs and
Most revenue items show substan- Defendants, Ng So, 20, junk master. But that is not a complaint of keeping me waiting for an hour
was produced on my insistence. Finicky children respond very incivility or anything of that sort?
K. Hawkins, A. E. Perry, E. W Putney, N. Whitley, A. M. 3. Wright and Excise (presumably including Fur- charge, and were Oned $30 each in und six others, pleaded guilty to the Have you any real reason
signed,
chase Tax) which together are over default 30 navour, it keeps them regular that the applications could have been
F. Strange (Capl). G. Ainslie, v. C. Bond. figures.
days Imprisonment. and provides abundant nourish-
falling to have n llcence for his junk, The total expenditure in the year was fined a further $7 or seven days. ment in a form that the most for a visa for Mrs Rocha and a per- As regards your second application queasy stomach can take,
mit for the amali, ypur complaint la incivility on the part of Mr Forrest Soon you notice a wonderful and treatment for you as à. Consul
from some of his subordinate staff?-
DIET FOR FINICKÝ CHILDREN
Missing Applications
subir recovered.
after
-
JUNK PEOPLE·
ARRESTED
You had been to office per- listed? Yes, once. It was because an applicant could not get his permit for more than two months.
At any time, did you have any con staff in my office, apart from the question of this permit?--No
Did you ever talk to any of my MacGowan. J. Watchell. II. Parrot It may be noted, averaged 10,300,- Sgt Hughes prosecuted.
readily to Horlicks. They love its No, but I was very much surprised that the permit was to think versation with any of my Chinese R. M. Wood scowloon C.C. (home)-11 £120,000,000 higher than last year's | Seventh Defendant, also charged with:
lost.
and embossed that day! Yes, be cause when I called in the morning, General Agent, I was told to call after having been refused by the back in the afternoon, it must have been done between that time.
Lying On Desk
But in your statement, you said it
in the Immigration Office?--No. staff on the question of photographs
Did you suggest, at
at any time, that' you would be a good man to he General Agent?—No,
Dld
1012
| you ever, at any time, offer to
The Chairman: You need not
change. The little body begins joves, and also the fact that I could not had been lying on the desk all the any member of my staff a bribe? fill "out, colour returna to the recover $1. It is not a question of time? When I said all the time, it checks, peevishness goes and ap-money, but a question of principle, pelite becomes keen. Horlicks
Wax Engaged. gives a child all the
energy Mr Forrest: Mr da Rocha, I beg needed for rapid. growth and you to take into consideration that I never saw your script until half. un strenuous play.
(0)
hour ago, I have not had time to mits. consider it. I am passing over the first visit and will deal with the second one. You saw Mr M. W. Lo go into my office?—Yes, * Presumably, therefore, I was en- gaged? Yes.
you decided to go into my Yes, Yet office? Yes, because you hnd told me
was between the interval of my answer that if you do not desire to do visit in the morning, and my second vialt in the afternoon.
LEE THEATRE
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COMING SOON!
Mr Wong answered Mr Forrest in simply lying among a bundle of per-listed before or after January 162-
Was it ties in a bundle?..No it was
the negativo.
Mr Brown: Were you
black-
Who completed the application
After January 18. forms?--I did.
Including the was done by my clerk.
This concluded the questioning of Mr Wong and Mr Forrest then hand- nurse's? No, thated to the Chairman a list of figures which he said were extracted from So what you actually did was to a cash book in his office with re- hand them to the General Agent?ference to Mr Pudney's answers at the last hearing. The figures show- I could see you again at any time that the permit was not written at February and March, the daily turn- You had good renson to bellave ed that over a certain period of and because there was no privacy in all after your morning visit to me?-over of cash averaged that room or the word. "Private"
I am sure of that.
written or marked there. Further, You did not think it possible that there was a great deal of space inside
$24,215 Paper's Use of Name Before adjourning the Inquiry sine the permit might have been DOTTI- die, the Chairman said: "It has come
the office where I could sit instead of picted but malaid? No, decidedly to my notice that one of the European walling outside amongst the crowd,
You have already been once to you took that application the proceedings on March
papers in the Colony, in reporting office and did you see any Vacant
from the General Agent and Mr Forrest put to Mr Pudney certain
20 chairs there I was told to sit in handed it to Mr Chan in the Imml cases In the Post Office, where an when
one of them,
Told To. “Get Out" whether anything was marked on It? to handle a considerable sum of gration Office, do you remember unsecured officer had been allowed I am surprised because we are conYes, it was marked "urgent." tinually short of chairs. You know In answer to Mr Chen, Mr an officer in question,:: It is true that the money, published the name of that
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