CO129-545-4 Request to write off the value of cash and stamps stolen from General Post office... 26-10-1933 - 20-12-1933 — Page 11

No. 534.

Lo.c

C. C.

Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

26th October, 1933.

I have the honour to inform you that

during the night of September 22nd, a safe in the

General Post Office was opened by a person or persons

unknown, and cash and stamps to the value of $1,589.09

were removed.

2.

The safe in question is one used by the

shroffs engaged in selling stamps for keeping cash

and stamps over night. During the day the safe is

empty and it would appear that in the past no special

precautions were taken to secure that unauthorised

persons did not have access to the key with the consequent risk of a duplicate being made. This has since been

remedied.

3.

It is thought probable that the thieves

concealed themselves in the building, opened the safe

by means of a duplicate key, and left when the doors

were opened in the morning.

The premises are searched

nightly but it would not be impossible for anyone familiar with the building to evade notice; for this

and other reasons it is suspected that the theft may

have been committed with the connivance of a member

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,

&C.,

&c.,

&c.

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