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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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