12
13
550
should be performed by the Treasury,
otherwise how is it to be audited? I_
propose
That is,
every Menter
7 Man Audit
Offene han something
to relieve him of these duties but to expect two clerks to audit all the details too (?
of accounts amounting to about £35.000 monthly, and at the same time to
furnish the information.
past and
on.
matters.
which in the course
present which
of business they are continually required
to do, seems to me to be rather unreasonable.
11.
If the Audit Office
were
separated
from the Colonial Secretary's Office and put
-
in charge of a competent person,
, conversant
with the duties and able to instruct his
subordinates and to take his share of the work, it might perhaps be found, after all the Departments have been thoroughly
overhauled that two clerk's would be..
sufficient; but until this has been
accomplished I believe that additional
be required.
assistance will be
12.
The increased expenditure that would follow the adoption of my recommendation, would I think be
-over
fully repaid by an effective supervision of the collections of the different departments. The recent case of emberrlement of #30000 by the Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court is an instance of what may be expected if the collection of publie - monies is not surrounded by proper
checks. Whether publie monies have
have not been
misappropriated
past it will now
好
in the
be difficult to ascertain;