Help me with a cyl-head gasket mystery

Previously dismantled a 225 slant 6 engine and had it properly machined at a shop that I do trust from previous experience.

After putting it together and mounted in the car (new gasket and new cyl head bolts with correct torque, naturally), I filled the cooling system up and after a while noticed that it is leaking. Leak came from head gasket in two places: one in the front end, and one on the left hand side, mid length of engine.

So I removed the cylinder head. Then I see that there are 2 corresponding water channels in both the cylinder head and in the engine block, that do not communicate due to that there is no hole in the gasket. These places coincide well with the leaking places.

My natural question - badly made gasket (Corteco)? I check webshops for two other available brands (Fel-Pro and Reinz) and according to pictures, it seems they are made exactly the same. See f ex
http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=2758430

So, somebody please here:
1. Should there be holes there = are all these gaskets malmade? (See attached jpeg)
2. If not, some theory on why it is leaking?

Thanks
/Mattias from Sweden