The preliminary hearing of the charges of falsification' of Shanghai Gas Ca. accounts brought against Henry Cyril Davies, former employee, were continued in H. M. Police Court before Mr. C. H. Haines, H. M. Registrar, yesterday. Mr. P. Watkin Williams prosecuted on behalf of the SMC.
Recalled to give evidence Mr. Rene Berthet, chief clerk of the Gas Ca., was questioned by Mr. Watkin Williams, Mr. Wi explained that there were entries in Davies' ledger which did not appear in the cash collection book. He added that the totals in the cash column of the ledger had been falsified.
After an all day hearing, during which ledgers, folio numbers, cash collection books and other exhibits were produced in order to prove that the amounts in the cash collection books did not coincide with the corresponding entries in the ledgers because of erasions, the case was adjourned until today at 215 p.m.
One of the 40,000 ration tins of chocolate given by Queen Victoria to her troops in Africa during the Boer War at Christmas, 1899, is the treasured possession of F. Reed, 62- year-old unemployed printer of Hastings.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.