HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised Capital *****-- 1 -$50,000,000 Issued and Fully Paid-up...$20,000,000*
Reserve Funds :---
Sterling Hong Kong Currency Re
serve Reserve Liability of Pro-
prictors
.€ 6,500,000
-$10,000,000.
$20,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson..
Chairman. W. H. Lock, Esq., Deputy Chairman,
Were the bills separate?—No. we typed them from the report of Which was the last car you drove?-Car No. 599, We have the foremen.
What do you type?--The daily five sites to inspect so when we reports of the foremen. They are are in a hurry we have to use a sent to Mr. Campbell every day.
For the removal of muck?--Yes. In other words you are sup- and tunnel driving.
plied with a car by the P.W.D.?3. R. Dosenfeld, Eng., Who are these typewritten re- No, this car belongs to a sub- FH, Compton, Esq.. ports sent to?-To Mr. Campbell contractor.
Who? Name Every day? Yes.
To whom?-To Mr. Campbell. Now too?—Yes.
car,
sing.
G. Miskin, Esq.,
K. 5. Morrison, Esq., Hon. Mr. T. F. Ponroe,
1. J. Davies, Era.. him. Lt Man- Hon. Mr. S. II. Dodwell, Hon. Mr. A. L, Shields,
Han, Sir Vandeleur M, Grayburn, Chief Manager.
He is a sub-contractor to Kin Mr. Campbell is in hospital. Lee?—Yes. Do you know of any bills paid by Government to Kwong Wing Even now they are sent address- or any other firm which had noted to Mr. Campbell of the Wuter-Lee?--No. been o.k'd by you? I can't works office. say.
Initialled Voucher
BRAŃCHES:-
Amoy Bangkok
1 pob
Johore
Rangoon Saigon
Robo
San Francisco
And he supplies labour to Kin
What does he do?-He supplies Batavia When was the last one?-This tunnel lining.
Calcutta morning.
And you drive about in his Calon car?--Yes.
Cheloo
Do you remember what they were? Work on site No. 2, Tun- Showing witness a voucher, the Inels 2,3,5,6. Chairman asked: Whose initials. are those?-Mr. Campbell, Mr. Buchanan, and Mr. M. Kwong,
Who is he (M. Kwong)—He is He looks employed by Kin Lee. after the sub-contractors. The other initials are Kwong Wing's.
The No. 1 manager of Kin Lee? -Yes.
by
Witness explained that
Will you agree that this parti- work WAS divided into three cular voucher was not ok'd shifts each under a foreman any foreman at all?—Yes. from 8 am to 4 pm.; 4 p.m. to 12 midnight; and from 12 mid- night to 8 am.
Lam the No. 1 Foreman in charge of the three foremen, and I am to check the reports made by the three foremen, I inspert the work. A book is kept for each shift and a separate book for each site.
The Chairman: What time do you arrive on the site?
a.m.
Why?--I don't know.
Does Mr. Buchanan go and mea- sure the footage of muck removed from the tunnels?-I don't know.
Bill For Muck
Bombay
Kowloon
Shanghai
Kuala Lumpur Singapore
Bourabays
Sungei Patani
SwBlow
London
1.Jone
Colombo Dairen
Malacca
Manila
Tlantain
Muar (Johore) Tokyo
Mukden
New York
Tringtao Yokohama
Peping Ponstig
I then CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened In Local Currency and FIXED DEPOSITS
To visit the jobs?-Not to go round to all of the sites, but from Foochow
Haiphong site to site.
Hankow How did you get the car. Did
Harbia you speak to the sub-contractor? follo It included a bill for the remov-|--It happens sometimes that the al of muck?---No, there is not a bill car is outside the office. for that every day but only at the ask the person in it at the time
for received
One Year of shorter end of the month.
for permission to use it and it is
periods in Local and Other Currencies Who does the typing of the bill? granted.
on terms which will he quoted on - An.
And you drive about yourself application. Without checking, you rely on from site to site?-Sometimes I SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various the foremen to make a report and drive myself, at others the driver sizes To Let, at the end of the month vou totdoes so. it up.
In the meantime the Tran- Are you allowed any allowance sportation Comnany sends in a for transportation by P.W.D.?—I (bin”I don't know.
am supplied with a bus ticket,
Here are some. ---Have you seen them this morning?- -No.
You never ok. them"-11 is only this morning that I learned of the procedure.
hour.
Bus Too Long
TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business undertaken.
Hong Kong, 26th February, 1941,
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Chairman: I say he does not and Mr. Campbell also does not.
And why did you not visit the The Business of the above Bank 18 Referring to the sum of $1,465
sites by bus then, instead of conducted by the HONG KONG AND paid for removing surface from It was initialled by F. T. Cheng, driving a car?--Sometimes a bus SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Site No. 2, the Chairman added: Mr. Buchanan and one of the takes too long, nearly half-an-Rules may be obtained an application. FOR THE HONG KONG AND The money was paid to the Kwong Government foremen.
SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Wing Transportation Company, a You also used to supervise the Have you ever driven in car
V. M. GRAYBURN, company which we know is sup-checking of tunnel work. Look at No. 599 after 6 o'clock at night?~~~~
Chief Manager.. posed to be owned by the wife of this document, what is it for?-I've Yes, just for convenience sake, Kwong Wing whose office was
Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937. a never seen it. It is supposed to (after 1 have finished for the day. small space in a cockluft. If you be for work at Tunnel No. 1.
Where to?-Sometimes to my THE CHARTERED BANK
OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA house, sometimes to the Y.M.C.A.
AND CHINA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.
At 8
Always? Sometimes I am a little late, but not later than 8.10
In regard to the issue of ex- plosives, witness said that there used to have checked the fure "Never Passed To Me" was a blasting foreman who in-posed have footage
a.m.
forms "us" of the amount re- quired. This is issued to the foreman of the sub-contractor after examination.
O. K. Questions
Did you also o.k. pay sheets?
No.
Who did?
F. T. Cheng.
Who is he? He is employed by Government in the P.W.D.
why was it not ok'd by one of you? I don't know, the voucher did not pass through my hands.
You can't explain?-No. Perhaps you can explain one, said the Chairman, handing witness another voucher.
Never Before
this
I have never seen this voucher before, replied Witness,
Is that also a voucher of money
He used to o.k. the pay sheets? paid to Kwong Wing?-So I see.
Yes.
On information supplied by You checked the sheets?
you. Yes.
No.
your
Am I correct is saying then docu- that once you o.k'd the ments Mr. Campbell ok'd them without further inquiry? -
What did he do to check
Did he inquire into your o.k.? o.k.? I don't know.
Witness then explained that after goods arrived he would check the voucher with the goods. and after being satisfied that everything was in order he would ok. it straightaway and enter it into the book.
What is this (other) document? According to the document. It is for
the removal of muck from A.R.P. tunnels.
Who is it from?-Union Express Construction Co.
This bill is for tunnel work?-
Yes.
In other words you use the car as a convenience?-Sometimes; I was always given leave to.
Have you ever used a car be- longing to another sub-contractor? -No other sub-contractor owned Paid-up Capital a car.
Have you ever been to a res- taurant in that car?-No.
You have never been to a cine- What amount is involved?--
ma in that. car?-No. The driver $3,226.80.
Next one?-A bill from Ah Ding.was not pleased to go to the cine- For how much? For tunnelling me with me. at site No. 5,--$5,715.24.
on
Reserve Fund Reserve Liability
£3,000,000 £3,000,000
of Pro-
£3,000,000
prietors...
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38,. Bishopsgate, E.C.2. 117/122, Leadenhall Street, EC.2, West End Branch: 14/16, Cockspur Street, S.W.1. "Manchester. Brancha qugr
62, Mosley, Street, Manchester, 2.
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:
Hankow Hong Kong
Aimritsar
Have you ever asked him?-No. I mean really that he does not It is $3.899 for the transporta- Both items are for work you like the cinema. tion of muck. Who ok'd it? It look after? Yes.
Have you ever been on a joy Alor Star Does your initials or signature ride in this car?-No. is ok'd by T. F. Cheng.
Government | appear
them? They were Who is he?-The
At this stage witness was told Bangkok servant who looked after this never passed to me.
Which you accept without going to stand down in order that evid- Bombay ence from another witness may Calcutta These to see if they are correct,
Agencies: He was, however, told are the documents on which the be taken. Government pay, money? only not to go away as he would be
required again later. know it now.
account.
Pointing out to witness that the date on the voucher was dated after he had started to work the Chairman asked: Why is it not o.k'd by you?-It did not puss through my hands.
Is it correct
never see the bills of contractors?
Yes.
Penang
Rangoon
Iloilo
Balgon
Ipoh
Harachi
Seremban Shanghai
Hlang
Biogapore
Kobo
Sitiawan
Chre Street Ru
Kuala Lumpur Bourabaya
Fairlie Place Kuching Canton
Madras
Taiping Tientsin
Cawnpore
Maolla
Tongkah
Cebu
Medan
(Bhukat)
Colombo Delhi
New York
Tsingtao
Peiplog
Yokohama
Haiphong
(Poking)
P
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.
to say that you Mr. Bishop Called
Mr. C. W. E. Bishop, Executive Construc- Only the daily reports of fore- Engineer, Waterworks
tion, was the next witness called, Never check the work?-1 do and in answer to the chairman
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and check the daily reports supplied said he had brought along with
FIXED DEPOSITS received for One by measuring the work,
him the morning reports in con-year or shorter periods in Local or Every day? Not every day; nection with tunnelling work in other Currencies at rates which will once or twice a week.
Are you telling us now that a lot of bills do not pass through your hands? Well, here is one-men?-Yes. Do you know why? I have ok'd some typewritten bills but have never ok'd a bill made out in the Chinese language,
The position is this. You did you with not o.k. this bill although
Transport Vouchers Have you anything to do the o.k. of youchers for transport?
Yes.
procedure
in
were detailed by Mr. Campbell to check them, and that this large amount of money was paid with out your o.k.?-I have never seen that voucher before.
"Not Able To Say"
What is the letter-head on the typewritten document? There is no letter head; it is simply plain paper on which is typed "A.R.P:
Tunnels."
And having satisfied yourself, the bill is sent to Mr. Campbell and the bills are ok'd by some one else in the P.W.D.?-I can't say, I know nothing of the bills sent in by contractors.
Nothing at all?—Yes,
it
was
Kowloon done by Kin Lee.
be quoted on application. He said the reports, were for - SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in May and June, but one of them, Local Currency and Sterling with in- unfortunately, was missing. He terest allowed at rates obtainable on What was the
added that it was for the last day application
The Bank's Head Office in London regard to that?-Mr. Campbell
of the month, but felt
undertakes Executor and Trustee busi told me that because the removal
somewhere in the office.
ness, and claims recovery of Britain of muck was based on lineal mea-
Chairman: What happens to Income Tax overpaid, on terms which surements, it was the duty of
these reports?-I am afraid I may be ascertained at any of the the foreman of the last shift to
Not The Only Man can't say, sir." They go to: Mr. Ageneles and Branches.
W H. EVANS THOMAS, measure the tunnels every day.
Campbell and I presume he uses
Manager, At the end of the month I would
Am I right in saying that as them to check up on the amount add all the measurements up.
THE WING ON BANK, Who checked the actual loading?
the result of these questions, the of work done. They are reports position is this:-You at $2.50 a giving particulars of the number
LIMITED. It was done by measuring. Who checked it?-I checked What you refer to is a sort of day are the man through whom of men engaged on each tunnel with the three foremen.
summary which goes to the Trea-Government has been paying thou-face, the number of timber men
Head Office: Hong Kong. o.k. sands and thousands of dollars?--for each shift, night and day shift, So the position is this, You sury? That is so, I only
work the progress made in the drilling 28, Des Voeux Road, Central. Since I was instructed to relied on the three foremen on that kind of document.
I was not of the tunnels, the number of Authorloed. Capital ... $10,000,000 the amount of footage removed? Would I be correct to say that in this manner I did so.
LONDON BANKERS- as far as you are concerned you the only man who was doing this holes drilled, the amount of gelig-
Westminster Bank, Ltd. Witness, admitted that if they are not in a position to say that work. There are also Mr. F. T.nite used and the number
Foreign Exchange and every made a mistake he would not this sum of money was properly Cheng and another Chinese fore-detonators used."r
Do you know who they are description of banking business know of it. And in reply to the earned by Kwong. Wing? Yes.
made up by?They are signed by transacted; Chairman's submission that if I am going to tell you some What is Cheng's salary?-$80.
Chung Chun, foreman of works. Current Accounts and Sayings they did so intentionally witness thing. Séveral vouchers by A princely salary!
I don't know who he is.
Accounts opened. Fixed Deposits transportation Is it correct that no European You don't know whether he is received at rates which will be said: There Is a final measure- Kwong Wing for ment.
were not ol'd by you; although engineers ever bothered even to a foreman of the P.W.D.?—I don't quoted on application. So when you ok'd the work it was your duty to do so. It was check the work on the tunnels know. you were not in the position to impossible for me. They did not and relied entirely and solely on
the
Chinese
Mr. foremen? say, the actual amount of footage pass through my hands,
statement removed? That is so. I could I am making a
of Campbell and Mr. Buchanan were
And on that, you say, Mr. make a mistake myself. I. cannot fact; that this was so with several also responsible. do all the work myself...
vouchers Since they were not Chairman: But Mr. Camp work done?--He would use them check or oil. bills in regard to
Campbell eventually approves the
tell us how Mr. Campbell could presented to me, how could
bell has cald, he was "overwork- ok them?
to assist him in checking Kin the transportation of muck? ed and had far too much to do. Lee's accounts. and bould not possibly. check
-Yes.
-
"
Foremen's Pay
I suggest that the Transporta- Witness continued in reply to tion Company was formed pure- the Chairman that two of the ly and only as a blind to rob the foremen received wages of $2.50 Government by overcharges and day and the other $2 a day, that they did so aided and abetted They were Li Shing, Lo Holt-by you and other Government but, and Cheng Tong, all Gov- officials: Is that so?--No, that ernment foremen "employed, by is not so..
he P.W.D.
Do you know which transport ompany was doing the work at
hat time? The Kwong Wing Company.
man.
Assist In Check
of
Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.
PHILIP GOOKCHIN,
"Chief: Manager.
all the work, and had to rely, the supervision of the Kowloon that they were paid at so much
on you, Ho always accepted everything you told him as
Mr.
Campbell, hàs
correct?
and
I thought he had an agreement He was solely responsible for
per lineal foot. tunnels?-Entirely..
He has. He would be able to Afé there any daily reports, check the total advance of tun- Mr. Bishop, with regard to the nelling during the month his own brain.
removal of muck? There do not from that know that so many feet And so did. Mr. Buchanan? seem to be. All the morning res had been removed. Likewise, he could think the mat-ports seem to be of the same
Chun is? No. ter over
type the progress made in the You do not know who Chung Do you know whose initials are But over $800,000 was spent by excavations, the number of men Witness was then shown a type- Government on your certificate employed.
(Continued on. Page 10) written document and in reply or statement to European en You are not in a position
Not From Vouchers
to
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