Second Quarter, 1890.
MONEY ORDER OFFICE.-(LOCAL.)
BALANCE SHEET, 30TH JUNE, 1890.
ASSETS.
AMOUNT.
LIABILITIES.
389
AMOUNT.
Balance due Hongkong £476 5 2
from Victoria,
"
New South Wales....
71 11 4
,, South Australia,
49 11 1
19
Western Australia,.
44 4 2
"
Tasmania,
237 17 5
Balance due Queensland, £11 12 3 @ 3/4§............
68.60
Colombo, Rs. 312.66 @ Rs.221
per $100,
141.19
India, Rs. 22,301 11/1 @ Rs.
221) per $100,.
10,068.48
Japan,
1,417.66
Cash due Shanghai,
261.66
Unpaid Orders 1887-88,
53.17
£879 9 2 @ 3/4§
5,195.57
1889-90,
1,253.61
19
Singapore 1890,
446.82
"
15
1890,
451.07
on Lists of 2nd Quarter, 1890,
received at Hongkong after 30th June, 1890,
3,599.91
,, Bangkok 1890,
264.94
Advance from Government,....
5,000.00
""
"
1890,
371.33
„North Borneo,..
236.26
Shanghai,
13.08
Cash due from Shanghai,
374.06
Draft from Queensland, £100 @ 3[7,
558.14
Cash in hand,
6,986.79
Balance,.........
6,966.22
21,864.28
21,864.28
ARTHUR K. Travers,
Acting Postmaster General.
MEMORANDUM ON DEFALCATIONS OF Z. M. BARRADAS, LATE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE MONEY ORDER OFFICE.
When the frauds were first discovered in March last the late Mr. LISTER was at some pains to prepare a statement in order to arrive approximately at the sum missing. The conclusion he arrived at was that about $46,000 represented the loss.
In making up this statement Mr. LISTER had not sufficient data to go upon owing to the books of the Money Order Department being so much in arrear, and it was only by a careful detailed examination of the accounts and by obtaining information from other Colonies that the sum total of the defalcations could be arrived at. This examination has now been made and corrected accounts with each Colony prepared and the appended statements are the result.
In the statement prepared by Mr. LISTER the amount shewn as being short paid to the Treasury to meet advices to the Crown Agents was $46,466.82. Sub- sequent examination of the accounts has shewn the sum to be $50,681.06. The difference arose from the fact that up to 31st December, 1889, the statements of payments to the Treasury was made up from records in the Audit Office and the statement from January, 1890, to the date of BARRADAS' flight was prepared in the Post Office and included three sums amounting to $5,771.05 paid in in December, 1889. There was no time to check the accounts and so this double credit was overlooked till after the original statement was made and the accounts were
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