CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3] — Page 138

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Your Committee is of the opinion:

(a) that Er Lenfestey ought to have know and ought

not to have omitted such an important part of his

duty and that he is undoubtedly to blame.

(b) that Fr, Chan Pui is in no way to blame.

(o) that ir. Jones, although deceived by an ingenious

forgery, is not to blame in any serious degree. (4) that the question of Contander Beckwith's nosition in the matter not having come up for consideration

your Committee should not express any opinion other

tuan is contained in the remarks already made in

Commander Beckwith paragraph 7 of this report.

period covered was absent rom the Colony during the period covered

by the efalcations.

(e) that the Harbour Faster should not have allowed "r.

Lenfestey to depart from the letter of the Governmen Orier 315 (3) but that the former has honestly tried to keep the financial arrangements in his department on a sound footing, his attempts having been de-

that he was feated by hip own lack of perception;

unable to appreciate the necessity for the strictest adherence to financial regulations the full inten- tion and object of which he probably did not com- prehend; and that the simultaneous presence in his Department of an astute and fraudulent Shroff, a

somewhat irresponsible clerk and an elderly ex- Lariner mechanically and unintelligently dealing with figures which he does not seem to have under- stood, created a combination of circumstances which shook off the somewhat limited grasp which the Harbour Master ponsessed over the detailed work, of, at any rate one of his subordinates.

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John a Que Kill

Attorney General,

Chairman.

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