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Monday, September 11, 1972

LABOUR DEPARTMENT WARNS ABOUT BOGUS OFFICIALS

The Assistant Commissioner of Labour, Mr. David Lin Huo-fu today

warned factory proprietors to be on their guard against people who claimed

to be Labour Department officers and asked for money.

Mr. Lin said that groups of "unscrupulous people" had recently

posed as inspectors of the department and sought money from factory managements

in Kowloon, particularly in the Sham Shui Po and Cheung Sha Wan areas, for

advertisemente in publications allegedly produced by the department.

He added that the department was very concerned about this and

believed that these people had managed to deceive a large number of factory

proprietors.

Mr. Lin said that in May this year a man was arrested and was

eventually sentenced to serve in a training centre of the Prisons Department.

In a second case of impersonation which occurred early last month, police

officers were alerted and another man was arrested when he called at the

factory for payment. He was subsequently sentenced to nine months imprisonment.

Last week a third case was reported to the department. However no

arrest was made because the impersonator failed to show up.

"No Labour Department officer is authorised to solicit money for

any purpose whatsoever and no publication issued by the Labour Department

carries any advertisements," Mr. Lin stressed.

He reminded