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No. 49.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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Government House
Hongkong,
16th. March, 1907.
I have the honour to state that
in November last, in consequence of a report by the Post-
-master-General regarding the unsatisfactory mature of the
Amoy Postal Agency Peturns the Assistant Local Auditor
was sent to that Port to investigate the matter.
2.
He found from a detailed examina-
-tion of the accounts, which were in a state of great
confusion, that a sum of $1,451.14 was missing, regarding
which Mr. J. A. R. Mackinnon, at that time a member of
His Majesty's Consular Service and Postal Agent at Amoy,
could give no explanation. Mr. Hackinnon was accordingly
called upon to refund this sum, and after pressure had
been brought to bear upon him through Fr.P. E. O'Brien
Butler, His Majesty's Consul, the money was recovered.
3.
It subsequently transpired that
owing
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