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Monday, September 11, 1972
LABOUR DEPARTMENT WARNS ABOUT BOGUS OFFICIALS
The Assistant Commissioner of Labour, Mr. David Lin Huo-fu today
warned factory proprietors to be on their guard against people who claimed
to be Labour Department officers and asked for money.
Mr. Lin said that groups of "unscrupulous people" had recently
posed as inspectors of the department and sought money from factory managements
in Kowloon, particularly in the Sham Shui Po and Cheung Sha Wan areas, for
advertisemente in publications allegedly produced by the department.
He added that the department was very concerned about this and
believed that these people had managed to deceive a large number of factory
proprietors.
Mr. Lin said that in May this year a man was arrested and was
eventually sentenced to serve in a training centre of the Prisons Department.
In a second case of impersonation which occurred early last month, police
officers were alerted and another man was arrested when he called at the
factory for payment. He was subsequently sentenced to nine months imprisonment.
Last week a third case was reported to the department. However no
arrest was made because the impersonator failed to show up.
"No Labour Department officer is authorised to solicit money for
any purpose whatsoever and no publication issued by the Labour Department
carries any advertisements," Mr. Lin stressed.
He reminded