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departmental reserve intended primarily to satisfy the needs of non-Jew in Palestine for immigrant labour and assistance, and secondarily for Jews who failed to come within the special conditions applied to that part of the schedule granted to the Jewish Agency but who nevertheless had good ground for admission to Palestine in Category C.

20. The size of the labour schedule was determined by the High Commissioner after consideration of the request by the Jewish Agency for the introduction of labour immigrants and of the recommendations by the immigration authority. The Jewish Agency in collaboration with an officer of the Department of Migration made a survey of the industrial, economic and labour conditions of Jewish !if~ in the country upon which to formulate their request. The officer of the department reported independently to the bead of the department. In addition, the department made a rough survey of Arab unemployment at the same time. The High Commissioner thus bad before him a survey of Jewish conditions supplied by the Jewish Agency, a survey of Jewish conditions made at the same time and on the same material by a public officer, corrected and adjusted if need be by the bead of the department, and a rough survey of Arab unemployment at or about the same time. Accordingly the High Commissioner had before him the material which enabled him to give effect to the prescriptions of policy in the White Paper of 1930, as interpreted by the Prime Minister's (Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald's) letter to Dr. Weizmann dated the 13th February, 1931.

The labour schedule once approved, the immigration authority prepared the necessary immigration certificates and issued them in installments to the Jewish Agency who then allocated them to the several Zionist Palestine offices in the world to be granted to selected immigrants.

21. CATEGORY D (DEPENDANTS). The definition of 'dependant' is given in section 2 of the Ordinance. Up to 1938 it was :-

11 'Dependant' means a. person who is, or who will on arrival in Palestine he, wholly and directly dependent for maintenance and support upon an immigrant or a. permanent resident, and is related to such immigrant or permanent, resident as being:-

(c} his wife, or

(b) his or his wife's parent or grandparent, or

(c) his or his wife's daughter, grand-daughter, sister or niece, who is either unmarried or a widow or divorced, or

(d) his or his wife's son, grandson, brother or nephew, who is under the age of eighteen years or, being over that age, is permanently disabled and incapable of supporting himself."

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