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accounts, and the forwarding of
all,
necessary authorities and vouchers would still rest with them, and entail no mconsiderable
and
labour and responsibility. The omission. of a single document would involve de lay, and cause the Comptroller
Auditor General's Departinent eruch Ammoyance and inconvenience; and there must not be omitted the; sometimes,
harassing correspondencs, before items could be adjusted.
10.
certam
In the matter of cost the difference to the Colony would be considerable: The total expenses of the local Office amount to $5000; but, if the cost of the new proposal, as the Secretary of State intimates, is to be shared by the co-operating solonies in proportion to their anual expenditures,
mn will be required.
then
a
Ja king
much larger
our ammal expenditure,
roughly, at $2,000,000, one
would
me on an addition
$20,000, and even a
per cent
f half par
Cent
326
cent would add $10000 to the cost and it
of our
(Signed) Frederick Stewart, Colonial Secretary to Auditor General.
Wongkong, 10th March, 1889.
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