CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10] — Page 569

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have provided an efficient check against fraud or

embezzlement.

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Crown Solicitor's Office.

Kwan Shek, 4th Grade Clerk,

Defalcation by Wại

The circumstances of this embezzlement, on a cursory examination, may appear to be incomprehensible, but one has to have some understanding of the mentality of the

Chinese to realise the difficulties of safeguarding

against such occurrences. In the first place, Yu Cheuk

Nam paid the money to the clerk, Wai Kwan Shek, although there is a proper place where payment should be made in

the Crown Solicitor's Office. There is no evidence to

show, as far as I am aware, whether the Shroff was in

the office at the time the payment was made. Moreover,

it should be observed that between the 4th January and

the 19th March, Yu Cheuk Nam was apparently content with

the evasive replies to his enquiries for a receipt, and

failed to bring the matterto the notice of the Crown

Solicitor until the 19th March.

12. Crown Solicitor's Office.

Cheung Tak Yan, Shroff.

Defalcation of

The circumstances of this defalcation are similar

to the defalcations of the Treasury Shroff, Chau Lam,

I have come to the conclusion that it is necessary

to consider whether adequate provision was made for

carrying out of the financial operations of this depart-

ment. In normal times no doubt the financial arrange-

ments could be adequately supervised by the Crown

Solicitor, but in view of the mass of legal work entailed

in connection with the large increase of defaulters, I am

of opinion that more adequate arrangements to meat the

requirements of Colonial Regulation No.218 should have

been

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