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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1929.
ONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
TSANG ON' WING AND THE
TREASURY CHEQUES......
TWO BOOKS EACH WITH 30 SHORT.
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MR. JENKIN'S CROSS-EXAMINATION.
Tsang On Wing, the Treasury clerk, whose name has already figured prominently in the litigation following the $260,000 Treasury fraud, was closely cross-examined yesterday by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, on behalf of the defendants.
The Government of Hong Kong is seeking an order that the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation re-credit the Treasury with $200,000 paid out on three allegedly forged cheques.
The Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) is hearing the case, Mr. Eldon Potter, K... and Mr. H. G. Sheldon are for the Govern ment, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin for the Bank.
Teang On Wing admitted tha when he found 30 cheques short in the cheque book under his care, he thought, since the number un the cover had been altered and initialled that the Bank had sent the cheques short and that he had failed to notice the short- age when he examined the book on arrival. The same thing, hap. pened with the next cheque book brought into use, but he did not think it of sufficient importance to report to his superiors,
THE TREASURY WASTE PAPER !
EXAMINATION CONCLUDES.
Altered Numbers.
When the case opened yesterday Trang On Wing was being examined by Mr. Sheldon.
What happened to the covers of the two books from, which cheques Were missing cut them off and put them in the waste-paper basket.
Witness explained that cheque books were sent to the gaol printing works for the Treasury serial num- ber and the words "Colonial Trea. surer and "Cashier to be i printed.
Witness agreed that he remember- nu sending a cheque book, exhibit" F, to the Gaol on December 2
When you were writing the num- bera of the cheques on Exhibit "F" did you make any discovery with regard to the book 1-Yeɛ.
What discovery did you make -- When I put down the Treasury serial number on "F" I found that Exhibit E" (the previous book) was 30 cheques short.
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You took no steps to see it was there No. Not until I came to use it.
POLICE RECREATION GROUND.
TOWN PLANNING IN
KOWLOON.
MR. J. P. BRAGA'S
QUESTIONS,
At yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council, the Hoo. Mr. J. P. Braga asked:
Will the Director of Public Works inform the Council whether in the Scheme of Town Planning for Kow- lece any site, and where, has been earmarked for a recreation ground for the growing number of members of the Police Force stationed at Kowloon and of the subordinate staff in the service of the Govern incnt 1
The Colonial Secretary replied, that, apart from the parade ground at the Police Training School, no area bas heen, specially earmarked as a recreation ground either for the Police Ferce or for the subordi nate employees of Government re- siding in Kovicon.
Playing Fields in Hong Kong... Mr. Braga then asked:-
If no such site has been marked out as yet.. will the Government consider the advisability of forth- with making a suitable reservation of Crown and both as regards ares and location, for recreation pur poses for the above-mentioned members of the Civil Service resid
on November 20 you would be ron-
When you took the book into useing at Kowloon }
Reply: The Town planning scheme stantly opening and closing it for Kowloon makes provision for the No. Only once
or twice in the reservation of several areas for re- creation grounds and Government course of the day.
use on November 20 was the cover
When the book was taken into proposes to develop these og and
when funds can be made available. still in the same condition as when you received it from the Treasury -I did not notice the cover. and received the same answer.
Mr. Jenkin repeated the question
Mr. Jenkin: On November 30 and December 1 you filed in over 100 cheques --Yes.
You did not notice anything wrong I did not look at the cover at ail,
"I Put it to You."
I put it to you that the alteration made to the serial number on the
back of the cover could not have escaped your notice as far as can. remember I did not notice it.
Not on either day -No.. Did Cheung Mar. Kuon assist you to fill in the cheques -Yes, on the first day."
Did you look at the cover of Ed. Yes. hibit "F"Yes, I did.
The Government has decided to appoint a Committee under Chair- manship of the Colonial Secretary existing for playing fields in Hong to review the provision at present
Kong and on the mainland to con sider what provision is required for the future and to make recom mendation in the matter.
all its waste paper-is none of it destroyed?
ing to Mr. Black, who was present Mr. Potter explained that accord- in the Court and consulted at this juncture, that the messengers pick- ed out the large pieces of paper for building fires and the smaller pieces were subsequently destroy- ed.
You discovered the alteration un Mr. Jenkit: If a question ever the third day just before noon arose of finding a cover which had been put into the waste paper basket the first place you would look would be the store room 1--
Then you found for the first tune the alteration on the back and that the serial number on the last cheque corresponded out thirty cheques Witness described the finding of
·were missing ¡—Yes....
Yes.
What did you find -I found that the altered numbers on the cover tallied with the last cheque.".
Witness said there was also a
the two covers on January 18 one mark which he took to be an initial.
Mr. Black worked close to you 1-in fragments in the store room and He concluded that the Bank had!
Yes.
the other "under the rack on the sent 30 cheques short. It did not
During your service at the Trea- desk of one of the clerks (She On). strike him that the cheques bad sury you have constantly been in He was not sure about the order been extracted from the hook conversation, in the English tongue, in which the search was conduct- When he looked up Exhibit "Fwith European oficials concerning ed.
in order to number a new book he your duties 7-Not frequently. found a similar thing had happen. Not with Mr. Black Not, not ed and that another 30 cheques very frequently, and very rarely were missing. He again came to with Mr. Messer. the conclusion that the Bank had sen: 30 cheques short.
He ordered 200 ebeques from the Hank for the remainder of the year but they sent 400, and with a hate that they could not supply 200 He reported the matter to Mr. Black, and as he was speaking. Mr. Messer came along and asked what the matter was. Witness explain- e and Mr. Messer told him to keep
No Particular Oase.
Mr. Jenkin turned to the second book from which 30 cheques bad been extracted, and asked witness Why did you not report this if he had not taken particular care matter to Mr. Black Because in checking the numbers when it thought the Bank had sent the cheques short.
Your only reason ?--Yes.
During your period of service at the Treasury had such a thing ever happened before -No, never.
came from the bank, since he be- lieved the bank to have made a mis- take in sending 30 cheques short in the last book. Witness said he not taken particular care, but hal checked it in the ordinary way.
When you sent it to the gaol was
You were not suspicious at the time 1-No..
The alteration was it in order It must be. initialled. I thought it was 10 order,
It had 600 cheques -Yes, I should say so..
the book.
When you spoke to Mr. Messer Hut you had passed the receipt did you tell him that on chengeschit for Mr. Messer to sign 1-Yea. were short or that of cheques had but I thought I had failed to notice been extracted from the book 100 that the chit was for 570 and not chèques short.
He had always thought that the Rank had sent the books short of
cheques.
Witness was handed the three dis- puted cheques and stated that they were not in his handwriting.
CROSS-EXAMINATION,
Checked the Book Carefully. Tenng On Wing agreed in answer to Mr. Jenkin that when a new cheque book arrived he would check the serial number as shown on the cover and in the receipt, chit with the actual numbers on the first and Jast cheques. Having done that he would take the receipt to Mr. Messer for his signature.
Mr. Jenkin: You satisfied your- self that the book contained 600 cheques 1-Yes,
for 600.
Then your checking of the serial number on the cheques and on the cover and the number of cheques un
The
the chit were all wrong No, only my checking of the chita. serial numbers on the cheque and on the cover corresponded.
You still do not think you should have mentioned it at the time to Mr. Black --No, I thought I could not trust my eyes and I had counted
it wrong.
Unprecedented Things. Questioned as whether he had discussed the matter with Cheung, witness said no, but he had meu tioned that the Bank had sent 20 cheques short when discussing how many more would be needed during
It came back in two or three days. Was it in order then?--I didn't check it. It wasn't my job, I put it in the safe.
The book had remained in the safe, witness said, for about two weeks. When he took it into use
he did not examine it to see if it. were correct. He discovered the alteration on the cover on December
pd drew Cheung's attention to
it saying, "Hallo, here's 30 short again. Questioned as to whether Cheung seemed surprised witnesa answered, He simply see it, he didn't say anything.'"
Witness said that though he had had conversations that day with both Mr. Messer and Mr. Black, ho had said nothing to either of them nbout the alterations.
It had not occurred to him, wit- nees said, when the memorandum the year.
Mr. Jenkin: You have described bers referred to were of cheques came from the Bank, that the numb- this alteration of the numbers on which should properly have been in the cover as unprecedented in your the books which were 30 short. The same routine has been rar-eight years' service: Do many un- ried out for the last eight years precedented things happen in the Yes. Sometimes I also counted the Treasury Not many. cheques.
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There is no doubt that the book
in question was correct when it arrived and when it returned "Tom the prison where the extra printing was done 1-That is so.
"I Did Not Notice!"
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Waste Paper: #Is None of it
Destroyed?!!!
Mr. Jenkin. Then at that time -you knew that the book was not) sent 30 short as you had believed but that 30 cheques had been taken out 7-Yes.
Witness said he attached no im-
Why didn't you at once tell Mr. portance to blank cheques. In an Messer and Mr. Black all you knew swer to further question, he said about it I had told them at that that when the book of cheques was time. I said "Yes, I have already finished on December 30 he cut off told you that we are 80 cheques It was received back on Novem- the cover and threw it into the short. ber 8 and taken into use on Novem-waste paper basket.
Nobody had asked him any ques- ber 201-Yes.
Is it emptied daily 1-Sometimes
tions that afternoon, witness said, During this three weeks interval one day, sometimes two days. did you see the book 3-I did not
What happens to the contenta until Mr. King questioned him just notice it.
The messengers pile it up in the before arresting him. store room,
As far as you know it might have been out of the safe where it had been placed for a day or even a week-Yes, it might have been.
Sir Henry Gollan: Am I to understand that the Treasury stores (Continued on nest Column).
The caso was adjourned until this morning at 10:30 am. The Jury on being consulted by His Lordship decided not to sit on Saturday.
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