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FOURTH MEETING.
March 6th, 1893.
Present: Mr. E. J. ACKROYD, Chairman.
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Mr. J. THURBURN.
Mr. S. J. BIRD.
Mr. F. J. BADELEY, Secretary,
Mr. H. E. Wodehouse called.
The Chairman. What is
your
name?
:
Witness.--Henry Ernest Wodehouse.
Q. When were you first appointed Acting Treasurer ?
A. In 1888.
Q. Can you give us the date?
A. In the summer, I cannot say nearer than that-June or July.
Q. And you continued so until?
A. Until the end of 1889.
Q.-Or the beginning of 1890, when Mr. Fleming arrived?
A.-1889 I think it was,
QAnd you resumed?
A. In the summer of 1890.
Q.-Until?
A. December, 1890.
Q. Do you remember what leave Mr. Lister originally had; that is to say how long you were to be at the Treasury?
A.--I think it was a year or sixteen months, but I could not be sure which. Q.--When you took up your position did you examine the Office and see what books
were kept?
A. I did.
Q. What sums of money were received?
A. Yes.
Q-And what checks, if any, there were?
A. I generally enquired into the administration of the Office.
Q. What did you find in respect to the receipt of Crown Rent? What was the
system adopted, whose duty was it to receive the rent, aud so on?
A. Generally speaking it was the duty of the cashier to receive the money.
Q. Whom do you mean by the cashier? A.I mean the Chinese shroff,