Pay-Roll Negligence
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Dismissal Followed Pay-Roll Negligence
THE pay clerk of the Samoan Public Works Department, Motu Su’a (on the temporary staff), who was in charge of the pay-roll of the Public Works which was stolen at Fagamalo, Savai’i, some time ago, has been dismissed from the service after a full examination
of the circumstances surrounding the theft. The Public Service Com missioner found that Motu Su’a had opened the clothes-box in which the cash box was to be locked and on account of his intoxicated condition omitted to place the cash box in the clothes box before relocking the latter.
His conduct greatly facilitated the subsequent theft of the money.
Motu Su’a was therefore adjudged guilty of negligence and dismissed.