CO129-607-1 Enquiry into loss of public money 22-5-1948 - 26-10-1948 — Page 38

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INDEX

LOSS OF $34.759.94 FROM THE DISTRICT OFFICE, NEW TERRITORIES.

IN MAY 1948.

I. The facts.

II.

II.

IV.

V.

VI.

The system behind these facts (described by Mr. Wakefield).

A.

Collection.

B. Paying Out.

Flaws in the system.

A. Collection.

B. Paying Out.

Remedies for those flaws.

A. Collection.

B. Paying Out.

Assessment of responsibility for failure to apply remedies.

A. Collection.

B. Paying Out.

Weaknesses still remaining after remedies applied.

A. Collection.

B. Paying Out.

VII. Mistakes, made within the existing system, which immediately

facilitated occurrence of the losses; and assessment of responsibility for these mistakes.

VIII.

Conclusion.

It was recently discovered that the sum of $1,765.90, which is item 2 on page 2 of this report, WAS paid into the bank by the missing Shroff, though he never produced a bank receipt for it. Further, a sum in cash of $211.65 was found in a cash box which remained in the hands of the Police during the compilation of this report, but has since been opened. is not $34,759.94, but $32,782.39.

Thus the missing sum

(Signed)

J.T. Wakefield, J. Barrow,

18.6.48.

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