ADMINISTRATION
and ensuring that the claims of local candidates for appointment to the service receive full consideration, is responsible for advising the Governor on appointments and promotions to the great majority of vacancies on the pensionable Government establishment.
Trade, Finance and Development. The Financial Secretary is responsible for financial and economic policy, and the purely accounting operations of the Government are under the general management and supervision of the Accountant General, who is in charge of the Treasury. All public accounts, whether of general revenue and expenditure, or of special funds or departmental accounts, are subject to audit and inspec- tion by the Director of Audit. The Commissioner of Rating and Valuation is responsible for the assessment of rates, and the Commissioner of Inland Revenue for the assessment of estate duty and of the various direct taxes imposed under the Inland Revenue Ordinance, Cap. 112.
The Director of Commerce and Industry is res- ponsible for Government bulk purchases of essential foodstuffs, trade promotion, price control, rationing, the collection of import and excise duties, the direction of preventive work and for the production of any statistical matter required by any department of Government. Procurement of Government requirements other than essential foodstuffs is the responsibility of the Controller of Stores.
The Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is administratively responsible for the Government's services in agriculture, fisheries and forestry, each of these divisions being under the supervision of profes- sional officers.
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