CO129-510-14 Report of committee of enquiry into discrepancies and losses in government departments in Hong Kong... 21-4-1928 - 24-10-1928 — Page 124

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of success are small, but you believe firmly in your moral case, and you may think it worth while to risk, say, $30,000 on the chance of getting back $260,000". Here, though the Treasurer and Mr. Black appear certain that the signatures are forged, I doubt if any one else

In these is, though we are all suspicious. circumstances should the Government claim on the

I am inclined to

chance of "getting away with it"? think that we should sue only if we are reasonably sure of our ground, partly because of the general moral consideration, partly because of our relations with the Bank, partly because of the apparent defect in the safeguards adopted in the Treasury, and partly because we should be gambling with public money,

though of course in the public interest.

When I say

that we should be reasonably sure of our ground I do

not refer to certainty of success in the action.

(sd) J. H. Kemp,

A. G. 19. 3. 28.