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I am to add that the Accounts of the Hong Kong Post Office with this Department are rendered in a satisfactory manner, and that there is no complaint to make as to the manner in which the mails are made up there.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
J Marray
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Extract from the Hong Kong "Daily Press":9
THE POST OFFICE.
(Daily Press 31st October).
Captain Hastings in giving his decision in the Post Office cases at the Magistracy on Thursday, used very plain language in respect of the management of that important department. Want of direction, he said, was abundantly proved and the lack of system clearly shown. "The Postmaster General frankly admitted his innocence of most of the internal economy of the Post Office, stating that when he wanted information himself he always went to Mr. Solly." When the new Governor arrives it is to be hoped that one of the first duties to which he will apply himself will be the placing of the Post Office on a more satisfactory footing. Skilled professional direction is required in the Post Office as much as in the Legal, Medical, Educational, or Public Works Departments, and we can only hope for efficiency when properly trained men are engaged. While the Department is in its present state of disorganisation in its higher branches, it seems to savour rather of the irony of justice that the humble subordinates should be so severely dealt with for acts of carelessness or laziness. No fraudulent intent was proved against the postmen sentenced to six months imprisonment; they had simply detained letters that they were too lazy to deliver. The offence no doubt calls for exemplary punishment, for the consequences of the non-delivery of correspondence may be most serious; negligence on the part of a postman may be almost as criminal as it is on the part of an engine driver, whom a momentary dereliction of duty may subject to a conviction of manslaughter. Still, the question presents itself, if CHENG TSANG and LI HO deserved six months imprisonment what would be the appropriate penalties for other officers of the department?
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I am to add that the Accounts of the Hong Kong Post Office with this Department are rendered in a satisfactory manner, and
that there is no complaint to make as to the manner in which the
mails are made up there.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
J
Marray
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Extract from the Hong Kong "Daily Press":9
THE POST OFFICE.
(Daily Press 31st October ).
Captain Hastings in giving his decision in the Post Office cases at the Magistracy on Thursday, used very plain language in respect of the management of that important department. Want of direction, he said, was abundantly proved and the lack of system clearly shown. "The Postmaster General frankly admitted "his innocence of most of the internal economy of the Post Offic "stating that when he wanted information himself he always went "to Mr. Solly" When the new Governor arrives it is to be hoped that one of the first duties to which he will apply himself will be the placing of the Post Office on a more satisfactory footing Skilled professional direction is required in the Post Office as much as in the Legal, Medical, Educational, or Public Works Departments, and we can only hope for efficiency when properly trained men are engaged. While the Department is in its present state of disorganisation in its higher branches, it seems to savour rather of the irony of justice that the humble subordinates should be so severely dealt with for acts of carelessness or laziness. No furacious intent was proved against the postmen sentenced to six months imprisonment; they had simply detained letters that they were too lazy to deliver. The offence no doubt calls for exemplary punishment, for the consequences of the non-delivery of correspondence may be most serious; negligence on the part of a postman may be almost as criminal as it is on the part of an engine driver, whom a momentary dereliction ofduty may subject to a conviction of manslaughter. Still, the question presents itself, if CHENG TSANG and LI HO deserved six months imprisonment what would be the appropriate penalties for other officers of the department?
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