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Marine Surveyor's Office at $480 $860, although he was
reported to be an unusually good clerk.
to
There were doubts
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his ojintegrity and in May 1907 he was subpoena'd at the Magis- tracy in respect of two enties in a steam-launch owner's book,
regarding two sume of $5 paid to him, He denied receiving the
oney
lah/and it was apparently found that the entalpos were forged.
e and Chan Pul-sam, also a Harbour Office clerk, were reported
in November 1907 by a detective in the District Watchmen force
as being in the habit of taking bribes from coxewains and en-
gineers who entered for examination. The detective reported that
all coxswains went to a clerk in the Harbour office surnamed
Chan, and all engineers to a clork surnamed Lo: that they paid
la fos varying from $10 to 15, the latter sum being the highest
aver paid: that for this they got a general idea of the kind of
questions to be asked and believed that their examination was
made easier: that Lo and Chan acted as interpreters at the exam-
Hination: and that practically no one dared to go to examination
without having paid the fee for coaching. The detective stated
this as a fact, but he could not get proof. Lo Sing-lau was
thereupon promoted, more or less against his will, to be clerk
in the Public Works Department at $720 $900. Chan Pul-sam
remained at the Harbour Office until this year when he was
transferred to the Củown Solicitor's office (Conf. 0.9.0.7517/05)
(e) on the 15th February 1908 Tsang Shiu-kau, (vide para.
13 supra) who was the predecessor of Wong Hau-nao xa shroff
in the liarbour Department, died suddenly, and in a minute dated
the 18th March 1908 Vommandor Taylor reported that Tsang apTM
peared to have been playing fast and loose with the money of the
Mercantile Marine Office, and to have left a deficit of some
$1,700". The accounts were gone into by the Local Auditor,
With the result that it was eventually found that a sum of
$1,648.21 was actually missing. The sun was refunded by
jeang's widow and by the sureties to the bond entered into or
his behalf (0.5.0. 1378/07).
(f) Chau Wai-ghan, a clerk in the Harbour Office, who