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Traffic Superintendent.
It is understood that your shroff Chan Yik Shing left the office about 10 a.m. yesterday with $3,034.48 in cash (in
addition to cheques) to pay in to the Bank, and that he
returned about 12 noon and remained in the office till 1 p.m.
Will you please explain why no action was taken to
see that the money had been paid into the Bank and forward the
receipted slip to the accounts department.
Why also was no report made when the shroff failed to
re-appear after lunch?
(SD) H. R. Butters.
P. M. G. 13.11.36.
Postmaster General.
With reference to the above I submit the following report
regarding Mr. Chan Yik Shing, Shroff Class V. of this office.
1. The cash in hand at 5 p.m. oh the 10th, the cash taken
in up to midnight on Tuesday and that taken in on the 11th amounting to $245.00, $647.46 and $677.87 respectively, totalling $1,570.32 was handed to Chan Yik Shing by me at
approximately 10 a.m. yesterday.
2. The Bank paying-in slip was prepared by Mr. Costa, signed by Mr. Reed, and together with cheques was taken by Chan Yik Shing from W. Ayock's table at about 11.15 a.m.
3. Chan Yik Shing left the office to go to the Bank at 11.20 a.m and returned about noon when he relieved the shroff Wong Lung
Hing for tiffin until 1 p.m. when he left the office for his
own tiffin hour. He did not return.
4. Mr. Costa, the Counter Supervisor noticed Chan Yik Shing had not returned to the office but did not make any enquiries about him, as due to Chan's wife's confinement Chan had recently
been five or ten minutes late on one or two occasions when he