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By order of the Central Body the Register of Applications
was closed on the 31st March, 1906.
INVESTIGATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF
APPLICATIONS.
In 574 of the above cases the Committee was unable for
various reasons to make any investigation, the chief being
through false addresses having been given and disinclination on
the part of applicants to give the particulars required for record
purposes.
All the other cases (787) were carefully investigated by the
Investigation Officer by inquiry at the homes of the applicants
and by communicating with the applicants' references. The
record papers, which were filled up by the same officer at the
time of his investigation, were submitted to and considered by
the Sub-Committee in detail, and classified as follows:—
Class 1. (Applicants deserving of preferential
treatment) 249
Class 2. (Applicants whose cases might properly be
entertained but whose circumstances did not
entitle them to be placed in the first class) 442
Class 3. (Applicants whom the Committee could
not recommend for employment) 96
Included in the above were 93 applicants who were disqualified
through having received poor relief, but in 25 of the
cases the circumstances were such as entitled them to special
consideration, and accordingly, permission to entertain them
was applied for and obtained from the Central Body.