CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7] — Page 357

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Oct. 1924

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$6,782.55 $4,521.70 $3,100.27 $7,385,98 $4,923.99 $1,341.73 $7,614.47 $5,010,65 $1,516.34 Jan. 1925 $7,778.84 $5,185.89

$2.229.09

$28,591.49 $17,727.89

$10,861.60

Thus balance due to Canton Office after deduoting the cable charges amounted to $10,861.60 for a six months period. The arrangement as stated in paragraph 6 above which was previously arrived at between Canton and Hongkong was therefore greatly to the advantage of Hongkong.

There is therefore no truth whatsoever in the charge made by the Manager of the Hongkong Office that we failed to pay our share of the cable charges. We have besides shown conclusively that the Hongkong Office had misappropriated our remittances and had incurred the indebtness to the Telegraph Cos. up to December 1924.

To safeguard any such thing happening again and also to see that our accounts are properly rendered we consider it necessary to appoint a man at Hongkong as Controller according to the stipulation of Art. I Sec.2 of the Convention of 1890 made between the Chinese Telegraph Administration and the Telegraph Companies, and which reads

thus:-

"A Controller of the Administration at the Companies

Stations at Shanghai, Foochow, Amoy and Hongkong, and a Controller of the Companies at the Administration's Controlling stations, present or future, shall have free admittance to the offices, in order to check and control) the correctness of the journals, abstracts, and accounts; as far as necessary for the purposes of the present

convention."

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