242//50
675
The Auditor General Stated in his report of 23rd instant that it is an usual
practice to provide for payment of all claims within the
year by inserting nearly all the available balance in the hovember requisitions that being the last to be paid in the financial
year
2. In the face of
the explanations of
the
lost master General that the Postmasters a
have to pay formedical
forts, 1200 miles away.
attendance and other such small claims
the
which cannot be foreseen amount of
exactly by him at that distance I consider
that I was
question
fully justified when the specially referred to me by the Governor in not making any objections to the small
was
items of 120 for Shanghai.
andy for.
Yokohama
nor do I see
arry
reason for
objecting to the small sum of $34. inserted
for the
каже
at
object for.
the contral Post Office.
Hongkong, the sum is not to be expended.
if the claims presented do not come up to that