10
for
certainly for
several years
to come, while it will with
equal certainty increase, if, highly probable,
as seems
the
Colony
is about to
become a great manufacturing
centre.
8.
But even under
present conditions, I
am
convinced that it will be
And an
found
an leene
economy
to
an
secure the services of accountant, thoroughly trained in the book-keeping
(
of
349
public works accounts. I
have myself
on various
occasions been unable to
obtain satisfactory information
to the past.
with
regard
expenditure
on
particular
public works, and I feel sure that Your Lordship
will
agree
with me that
such a state of things
should not be allowed to
continue.
As to the Stores Branch of the Department
9.
of
the