CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4] — Page 430

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mation that I was sentenced to a fine of $750. No information

was vouchsafed as to what offence I was supposed to have

committed, which, seeing that no charge had been made, is

not surprising. I submit that the procedure at this inves-

tipation was irregular and illegal. I was not allowed to

hear the evidence adduced against me, nor to cross examine

the witnesses, of who se identity I am even now ignorant, as I

ain of the charge or charges preferred against me. I have

reason, however, to believe that among the witnesses against

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me were some of those who sat in judgement on me, as well as the man (Chan Pui) against whom I had brought a charge of

complicity in the crime,

10.

I submit that not I but the Colonial Government

was to blame for the lose, in as much that I took every pre-

caution in my power to guard against loss of public funds,

while their refusal to allow the shroff's bond to be increased

to a sum commensurate with monies he had habitually to handle,

together with their disregard of my protests against the ab-

pointment of the dishonest accountant, rendered my efforts

nugr tory. The system which was at that time in forge, of re-

quiring each Government servent who handled public money to

find security for a sum exceeding any which would ordinarily

be in his possession, was apparently relied upon, to the ex-

clusion of other safeguards, to protest the Government, and I

submit that it was through no default of mine that the system

was abandoned in this case, but entirely though their own

fault in failing to take my advise in the matter.

11. Now Chan Pui (who, I discovered on returning from

leave in 1912, had been promoted to a higher salaried post in

the Colonial service, presumably as a reward for his actions)

has himself absconded with a very much larger sum of public

money (about ten times as mugh as he assisted Van Hau Nam

to steal), and, having been apprehended, has been tried and

convicted. This fact alone forms a strong argument for the

propriety of reopening the previous case, which has not been

tried

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