CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3] — Page 106

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Harbour Master,

In the matter of Lai Wing-tak:-

It appears that he took the counterfoil books

every evening to the Assistant Harbour Laster, who compared the

counterfoils with the amounts entered by Lai in his own collection

book. The Assistant Harbour Master was in the custom of commencing

his scrutiny from the place where his initials last appeared on

the back of the counterfoil. The shroff accordingly took the opportu-

-nity to put forged initials on a counterfoil far in advance of the

one last initialled by the Assistant Harbour Master, subsequently

erasing the forgery when the accounts had been passed. By this

method the shroff in one book of counterfoils alone took all but

33 out of 200 fees.

pies!

2. Will you kindly let me know whose duty it was to

fill in the wording on foil and counterfoil and whether the date appearing on the counterfoil was filled in at the time the licence

was made out and before the Assistant Harbour Master's scrutiny.

3. Will you kindly let me have copies any instructions given to clerks which bear on the matter. It is stated by Mr. Len-

-festey that the counterfoil entries were formerly copied by a clerk on long slips, specimens of which were handed to me, but that this practice was discontinued. I also understood him to say that the sums sown in the counterfoils were formerly added up by

some officer other than the shroff, but that this practice had also

been discontinued. Will you kindly let me know in what circumstances

and when the procedure was changed in these respects.

I understood from you that Kr. Chan Pui was supposed

to check the shroff's account, but he pointed to an instruction by Kr. Beckwith which, he claimed, relieved him of this duty. What in your opinion was hir. Chan Pui's responsibility in the matter?

D. Howfer is r. Lenfestey responsible for the Junk Office accounts, apart from Er. Chan Pui? Mr. Lenfestey has produced a memo. in which in May last he asked Mr. Chan Pui to send an officer to check the shroff's accounts, because they -