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my opinion, mainly to the lack of supervision, and receipts not being given at the time when payments were received,
Chau Lam was tried by the Police Magistrate and was sentenced to 9 months imprisonment.
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Crown Solicitor. Defalcation of $2,655, by Wai Kwan Shek, Clerk in Crown Solicitor's Office.
The circumstances of this embezzlement are, a defaulter for rates, Yu Cheuk Nam, on the 4th of January, 1926, handed a sum of $2,655 in bank notes to Wai Kwan Shek, a Clerk in the Crown Solicitor's Office, in payment of rates due on behalf of himself and another, Leung Sai Wing, for which no receipt was given by the recipient at the time of payment. Yu Cheuk Nam states that he called several times at the Crown Solicitor's Office and the Treasury for a receipt without being able to obtain one.
I am informed, however, that Yu Cheuk Nam did not bring the matter to the notice of the Crown Solicitor until on
or about the 19th of March 1926. In the meantime the Clerk, Wai Kwan Shek had been granted leave of absence by the Crown Solicitor on the 4th of March 1926, from which he has not returned, nor did he apparently pay over the money he had received from Yu Cheuk Nam before his departure on leave.
The Government briefed Mr.Eldon Potter, K,C., in relation to this matter, and on his opinion have decided to discontinue an action for recovery against Yu Cheuk Nam,
8. Crown Solicitor. Defalcation of $5,749.57 by Cheung Tak Yan Shroff who absconded on 5th June 1926.
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The money collected in the office of the Crown Solicitor is on account of defaulters for Crown Rent,
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