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LEAKAGE OF GOVT. STATIONERY.

CROWN LANDS OFFICE EMPLOYEE CHARGED.

Dangers of Partial Elimination.

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who, There are many people although they are satisfied that they are performing the natural fanctions regularly, do not realise occasional even 80, an lenkage of Government station that, ery from the Crown Lands Office, thorough cleansing of the food through thefts committed by Antract is advisablo, attendant in the Pablle Works De partment, was brought to light in

a prosecution before Mr. Williams, at the Central Police Court yester

Very few people perform clim- ination completely; there is nearly slight accumulation always

day afternoon, of three men, in- going on In the best regulated intestine, and this accumulation, cluding a Government employee.

becomes # Slu Kn, a clerk in the Crown unless cleared away.

cause of constipation Lands office was charged with steal-potential Ing 30 reams of foolscap paper and and its attendant evils, billous- alx books belonging to the Hong-ness, foul breath, anllow, blotchy kong Government, while two sta complexion, our stomach, live-

Yaumall and the tioners, one in

other in Hollywood Road, Hong-rishness and indigestion.

To avoid these conditions you kong, were charged with receiving

should use Pinkettes, the dainty stolen property.

Inspector John Murphy conduct little liver and laxative pills. ed the ease for the prosecution, which are the latest product of While Mr. Hornce Lo was for the science in the fold of aperient dose second defendant, and Mr. E. S. C.medicines. An decasionál Brooke for the third, the first de will keep the internal organs ar- fendant was unrepresented and en- tered a plen of "guilly" to the frattive, the passages clear and clean. charge, an alternative count of re- whilst for speedy resulta in cuses ceiving stolen property against him immedinte necessity, they can be relied upon to act quickly. being withdrawn.

though they are gentle and non- griping in their netion.

Detailing the facts of the case to his Worship. Inspelar Murphy said that the first defendant was

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an office attendant in the Crown with Pinkettes, Liver and Laxative Lands Office, which was a sub-de-Perfection. partment of the Public Works De partment in Lower

Albert Road.

lie was described as an office atten- daut but he was a lttle better than an offer attendant and a little less than an offer clerk.

Departmental Routine.

All Crown stationery was ceived by the Pubile Works Depart ment and kept in a stationery office, which might be described as the and Colonial Stationery Once issued from there to other depart ments as requisitioned. All de partments had to requisition in the usual manner.

He was of Shanghai Street, and the second defendant was arrested. then and there confronted by the third defendant and he admitted small quantity of re-that he had a

Government paper on the prensjaca, After a few sheets had been found the second defendant was asked if he had any more but he renlied in the negative. A further seurch was made and several packets of Government note paper and six Government hooks were found in- The defendant had been work. side the counter. The accused was

Inat 16 ing in his office for the years and it appeared. that he was, unofficially, in charge of getting de- stationery: somebody had legated him but whoever had de legated him had had no authority All the stationery used to do so. in the Crown Lands office was kept an un by the first defendant in locked cabinet in the general office and an the office wanted stationery it was obtained from the defen- dant as required.

A

in neked if he had any more and the same reply was given. bundle in the cockloft above the subsequent search revealed a hig shop.

paper

at

Crown's Strong Points.

Inspector Before concluding,

three or Murphy remarked that four points stood out very much ຄ against the second defendant. He had bought the ridiculously low price; it was Goy- ridk erament paper which could not be exhausted purchased in any shop in Hong- When the store was the defendant would go to a clerk kong: he did not disclose the fact the office, get a requisition that there was other paper in his form made out, have it signed by a shop: and he had bought the paper European official and the stationery from a man of the type of the frat then be defendant, without making any on- requisitioned for would obtained from the general atore. quiries as to who or what the first It would be brought buck to the defendant was. general office of the Crown Lands Office and deposited in the cabinet. Continuing. Inspector Murphy

of

The first defendant was put into the witncas box and, recapitulating his part of the transaction as it ald it appeared that about October concerned the second defendant, 1930, the defendant first conceived leaving out all reference as to how. the idea of pilfering the paper. the thefts had been committed, he He would be called to give evidence, said that he had taken to the second one occasion ten He would tell his Worship that he defendant on lived in Yaumati and when he went dozen sheets of paper, which he had home after office hours he took a sold for 70 cents. He had gone to sample of the paper to the second the second defendant's shop defendant's house. He had an in-about ten necasions altogether and terview with the second accused. had geen the accused about aix who agreed to accept the paper and times. intimated that whenever the Gov- ernment clerk had any for sale it should be taken to the second de- fendant.

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In reply to Mr. Lo, the witness denied that the second defendant had asked him his name of address, He was never asked the source of his supply of stationery nor had he informed the defendant from where it had been obtained.

Special Marks.

Ridiculously Low Price, The price was more or less agreed upon and the first defendant took paper to the second defendant on

Mr. W. J. Anderson, Superin--| several subsequent occasions. He sold the paper at a ridiculously low tendent of Accounts and Stores at Works Department, price: that, said the prosecuting the Public officer, would be proved conclusive-identified the stationery as being Government property. Regarding

ly,

On March 21, acting on Informa- the books, he said they were made tion received, Inspector Murphy up in the Prison obtained a warrant and raided 76 A,

Replying to a question, witness Hollywood Road. There he found said the stationery in question

a quantity of Government paper could not be bought out of Gov- was supplied with the watermark of the Crown ernment service. It

Agents and agents. The third defendant was through the Crown arrested because he was in posses- bere a special mark. The valve of

of the paper. That was the the lot amounted to $150, alon only evidence against him.

After a witness from Messrs. He told the Police that he had Der A Wing, called as an indepen bought the paper from the second dent witness by the prosecution, had defendant and another warrant given his own valuation of the was obtained, a visit later being stationery, the case was adjourned made to the Itung Kee stationers, until Tuesday morning.

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