Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 299

for the supervision and maintenance of the following offices : Lwowr Cracow, Riga, Paris, and Salonica, and have entered into working arrangements with the Palestine Offices at Berlin, Prague, etc. The adjustment of the administration to present needs, which are subject to constant changes in face of the growing volume of immigration, has called for reorganisation in almost every institution. When the management of the Immigration Dept. visited the centres of immigration abroad, the budget was worked out in detail and later approved by the Agency Executive as and when needed. The greatest work has fallen to the Palestine Office in Warsaw, which deals with one-third of the immigration into Palestine. The work is divided among the following departments : Management and Secretariat, Certificates and Passports, Transport, Training, Book-keeping and Cashiers. It was found necessary to enlarge considerably the machinery of the Palestine Office, which deals with tens of thousands of immigrants (about 2,000 a month in 1934-35). Reorganisation also took place in other Palestine Offices (Bucharest, etc.) and the scope of the work increased. Table 18. Personnel of Immigration Institutions. Number of E mployees. 1933/34 1934/35 Immigration Department— Jerusalem ...... ... ■8 12 Immigration Bureau— Tel-Aviv ......... 7 13 Haifa ... ......... 5 10 — 20 — 35 Palestine Offices— Warsaw......... 26 48 Lwow ... ... 3 6 Cracow ............ 2 4 Bucharest ......... 3 5 Kishineff ......... 2 2 . Constanza ......... 2 2 Czernowitz 1 2 Berlin ............ 26 20 Trieste ............ 5 8 Kovno ............ 1 2 Riga 2 2 Vienna ...... ...... 2 3 France ... -......... 2 3 — 77 — 107 As regards training, expenditure on this by the Immigration. Department has become limited almost entirely to supervision of the groups, hardly any funds being supplied for actual training.. The reason is that there are now about 35,000 halutzim in hachshara groups in ten countries, and it is impossible to finance this without the expenditure of many thousands of pounds. It was therefore necessary to limit expenditure to supervision only. At first the Labour Department was combined with the Immigration Department for budgetary purposes, but it has now 299