ANNEXURE V
Losses of Cash and Stores
78
arising from theft, fraud or serious irregularity reported to the Audit
Department.
Br description of the case and name of the
Department concerned
Whether recovered
Amount
or made
good and by whom
Whether written off and by whose authority
A.- Cash.
(a) 1946/47.
Medical Department.
Cash received from the Treasury for payment of $16,463.64 salaries & other charges misappropriated. Inadequate internal check and control.
45.03
Police Department.
$3,500 bail money estreated.
$12,963.64 written
off on the author- ity of the Secre- tary of State, Savingram No.222 of 20.9.46. $45.03 written off on the
authority of the Governor.
Written off. Secretary of State Savingram No.223 of 19.3.47.
Bail money found to be missing from Police
Headquarters.
Inadequate check and super-
vision by senior officers.
Police Department.
Embezzlement by a shroff at the Traffic Office, Central Police Station. Shroff dismissed from Government service.
Treasury.
Misappropriation of an overpayment of revere. The two shroffs responsible dismissed from Government service.
Medical Department.
$ 2,500.00
Made good
$
by the
508.25 relatives
of the Shroff.
Made good by the
63.00 responsible
shroffs.
Armed robbery of cash for payment of wages in transit. Escort said to have been over- powered.
$7,934.35
Treasury.
Unexplained shortage in stock of revenue stamps at board of survey.
$ 1,200.20
(b) Subsequent to 1946/47.
District Office New Territories.
C
Theft by absconding cashier of proceeds of Government cheque ($20,040.24) cashed at Bank, for which no Police escort was provided and defalcations due to lack of departmental supervision.
B.- Stores.
(a) 1946/47.
Written off. Secretary of State Savingram No.222 of 20.9.46.
Written off.
Secretary of State Savingram No.104 of 11.2.47.
$34,691.34 Not yet
settled.
Not yet settled.
Fisheries Department.
Pump and jack stolen from departmental car. $
41.00
Written off. Fin- ancial Secretary 9.8.46.