CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941 — Page 173

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Chairman: Is that the one we have herei

. Taui: This is the one

(Produced).

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That has been kept ever since you went to the Immigration Office:

That is right, sir.

You yourself receive only a certain proportion of the money that

comes into the office? There are other shroffs also handling cash?

Other shroffs also handling cash.

possession?

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What entries do you make of the cash which comes into your own

Do you enter each sum as you get it 2 for this

permit, 36 for that permit - or do you keep it until ou have a

lump sum?

overy day I close the account at 4 o'clock and all the money received

from everyone is paid into the Treasury.

#hat about your book, though? Do you, when you close the account

at 4 o'clock, make one entry in your book?

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Une entry.

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"Permit fees received by me - so much"↑

Yes, one entry.

"Permit fees received by the second shroff ... third shroff"7

In fact I only took a portion of the fees; the other shroffs Look

in other fees for other permits and they all make out a slip and

pay the money into the Treasury themselves.

They did not give you anything to put into your book?

They did. I entered all in this cash book.

They made out a slip for your guidance and you sade an antry from

that slip in your cash book and when all the shroffs had given you

a slip you totalled the whole thing, made out your pay-in voucher?

Into the cash book.

And paid it into the Treasury. and you have done that ever since

the office was first opened?

Yes.

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