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are put before me by the Church Clerk. I deplore this is being so; but it cannot be helped at present.
There is not even a separate room for the Auditor General, and he has to work in the Colonial Secretary's room, where he is subject to constant interruption.
Personal supervision by the Auditor General over the work of his subordinates, which must necessarily be exercised during office hours, and which Lord Kimberley considers naturally to be essential will be an impossibility unless he has some assistance.
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I would wish to ask Your Excellency to consider the comparative table which follows, taken from the Colonial Office list, showing the Audit staff, and the Revenue and expenditure of several Revenue Colonies.
It will be seen from this that the staff at Hongkong is relatively smaller than in any of the other colonies referred to in 1880.