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Enclosure 4
Mr. Orme's Statement of 7th. June, 1906.
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REG 30 JUL 06
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I have the honour to report as follows with reference
to my responsibility for the defalcations of lo hai Lam, formerly Treasury Shroff in the New Territory.
3. On December 22nd.,1905, 1 was appointed provisionally Assistant Superintendent of Police in the New Territories, in succes- sion to Mr. Ross, and proceeded to Taipo on the 23rd. I received no instructions from the hon: Treasurer nor information from my prede- cessor on any points in connection with the collention of Crown Kent: in fact I was under the impression that it was only as Assistant Superintendent of Police for the New Territory that I was to exercise control over the Treasury Shroffs.
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The embezzlements of Jp Hai Dar, who was et this time shroff at Sheung Shui, were for the most part impossible to detect, as it would be possible for him to receive money from villagers at his office or at home, without entering the amounts of all in the regis- ter, and he was careful to pay in large sums at regular intervals to Taipo. Indeed he worked with extraordinary zeal and attended particu- larly to those owing the largest suns, to whom he would excuse the issue of proper receipts on the ground of oress of work.
4. On February 20th., 1906, I received a telephone message from the Son: Treasurer that he had heard of the possibility of sore irregularity in the accounts of the Sheung Shui shroff; the author of this report was Chan Hai Wong, one of the other shroffs at Taipo, and as he returned on the same evening, I asked him what irregularity he suspected. He mentioned a sum of $800 which Ip Wai Lan had recently collected and had not paid in; so on the following day 1 visited Sheung Shui and found that the sun indicated had now been entered. 1 brought back the $800 to faipo myself, and told Ip Wai Lam to make
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