CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12] — Page 183

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Enclosure 1.

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Official Receiver's Office,

Hongkong, 29th. October2 291b,|

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I am directed to inform you that His Excel- -lency the Officer Administering the Government proposes, un dør the powers conferred by No. 51 of the Rules and Regulations of His Majesty'■ Colonial Service, to dismiss you from your office on the ground of misconduct in your capacity of a public

officer.

2.

(a).

The following charges are made against you:~ That, on the occasion of proceedings being taken by Mr. J. Hastings in respect of a sum of money of which he had been defrauded under a forged deed, you requested Ir. Wong Po-kai of the Official Receiver's Office to adviso Mr. Chau Kwing-un, a clerk in the Land Office, to leave the Colony in order to avoid arrest; that you allogged as the reason for this request that you would be yourself in denger of arrest if Mr.

Chau Kwing-un wore arrested.

(b).

That you similarly and at about the same period requested Mr. Tam Hing-yen, a clerk in the Land office, to advise Mr. Chau Kwing-un to leave the Colony in order to

avoid arrest.

(c).

That you in conjunction with certain parties, namely Tam Taz-king, the Hang On firm and Wong Pik- -chun, assisted one Wong Cheung to bring Admiralty action No. 4 of 1908 on the understanding that you and the parties nared, other than the plaintiff, wore to receive sixty per centum of any sum recovered; that you end the parties nei the plaintiff, woso to receive sixty por contu

ker then

resoromod; that you and the parties named, other than the plain- -tiff, drew up for the purposes of the action false particulars of claim, well knowing the same to be false.

3.

Any reply that you may desire to make to

these

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