CO129-508-5 Supreme Court of Hong Kong- slackness of registry accounting methods 28-10-1927 - 23-4-1928 — Page 41

Enclo⋅ No. 4(3)

Sir,

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Registry, Surpeme court,

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loth Uct.ber, 1926.

in accordance with your instruction to hand

you a written report regarding the dislocation of

accounts after the sale of goods and chattels in Distraint and Execution disposed of by the Auctioneering

and Brokering Company, Limited, I have the honour to

report as follows, and in the course of this, my report,

take the opportunity of calling your attention to contri-

butory causes to the fact that the money shortage was

not discovered sooner and also to the general working

conditions of my office.

About the beginning of June, 1925 a rapid

and unprecedented increase occurred in Distraints and

Executions and I found it humanly impossible to cope wih

the extra em unt of work as then staffed, despite the

fact that I voluntarily sacrificed all my hours of recreation and did not spare myself in any way.

Assistance was given me in the persons of

two untrained men who were loaned to my office from the

Public Works Department. After a period of instruction

in the work, this afforded some assistance but not very

much, since expert, practical knowledge of procedure

was in every case required: such knowledge cannot be

ined in a short and stressful period.

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My principal assistant was largely occupied

throughout in taking and transcribing shorthand reports

Huch Adair Nisbet, Esquire,

Registrar,

Supreme Court,

in

Hong Kong..