No.66/31/28.
Gentlemen,
The Treasury,
HONG KONG,
22nd June, 1931.
396
I have the honour to inform you that the question
of installing National Accounting Machines for the purpose
of issuing receipts for general rates, water rates, and other
items of revenue is now under consideration. The type
required is known as the accounting machine with voucher cut off.
It adds, counts, prints, classifies and distributes records
in one operation.
portions of the demand note, the former being handed back to
the payer, the latter being dropped in a locked box and
subsequently used for posting the rate register.
It prints the amount on both main and stub
There are
two controls for two cashiers and a window at the top where
the amount receipted is shown. The machine is worked by
electricity. Current in Hong Kong is 200 volts.
2.
Various types of machines are in use in the Far East
supplied by the National Cash Register Co. but none like the
one I have described and you will appreciate that before
ordering such an expensive article certainty as to the correct
type is essential and that to order without seeing the actual
machine is unsatisfactory. I have had some correspondence
with the Agency of the National Cash Register Co. at Shanghai
and even seen their representatives but that is as far as the
Inatter has gone. The type required is now in use in various
Municipalities in England and I have a report on their working
by the Auditor of the City of Birmingham showing how satisfactory
they are. Advantage should, therefore, be taken of the presence
in England of two officers on leave whose experience will be
useful.
Mr. Tratman, the Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary,
who understands the custom and usage in Hong Kong, has kindly
consented to advise on administrative questions dealing with the
general/
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.