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be initiated without him, I would
finn
venture to suggest that the Crown Agents be requested to consult some of Condor Accountants of high standing having experience of the Audit
of
the
accounts of great engineering and ~
industrial works, as
for
instance
Messrs Dever Delville and Griffitho who
are. ан.......
the
I believe auditors to the works of the Great Western Railway Company, Eastern Telegraph Company and other similar undertakings. Wr
would know the class.
4 Griffiths
an Ishould
of man
recommend when I refer to Mr. Brooks late Chief Accountant of the Alexandria
Harbour Works, and his assistant McM Foley who for
about six.
e years
was
accountant to the Cyprus Public Works Department.
3. Stores branch. This very important branch of the public works organisation has not (as is
the condition in which
obvious from
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I found Colony)
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matters
on my
arrival in the
received that attention in the past which it deserved. It is not too much.
to day that imless the Stoves Department
is
а
managed in a
business like
great waste of public money
be the inevitable result.
must
The state of things which existed when I took up my appointment three months ago (and I regret to say still exists) is as
In addition
follows:
to the important duties of chief-
correspondence clerk which
indicated
are.
already
efficiently
than he can
perform, Mr Goulbourn is nommally the Government Stove keeper. That it is practically impossible that these latra duties can be properly carried out is obvious. The practice in the past appears to have been to purchase everything locally except in the case of goods the local market cannot supply, e. g. Portland cement
that
of approved quality,
glazed