NOCONFIDENTIAI(2).
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My Lord,
HONG KONG
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
14th March, 1930.
I have the honour to request, in accordance with Colonial Regulation 293,Your Lordship's approval for
writing off the public accounts of this Colony a sum of 3401.47 representing moneys issued by Government in payment
for services rendered and fraudulently converted to his own
use by So King Man, orderly clerk to the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, and a further sum of $21.85 being an overpayment recovered and embezzled by the same So King
Man.
2.
So King Man was committed for trial to the
Supreme Court, which on 24th October, 1929, convicted him
on charges of fraudulent misappropriation of property, being in possession of a forged die, and uttering a forged
document, to all of which he pleaded guilty. He was
sentenced to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour on each count, the sentences to run concurrently. He was
dismissed from the service on conviction.
3.
It appears after Treasury and Audit
enquiries that these irregularities took place during the period between January and August, 1929, ami that they were facilitated by the following circumstances:-
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
&c.,
&c.,
&C.
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