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to prove
its case on the
different charges, chiefly
arose
from the unsatisfactory
manner in which the
accounts of the Post Office had been kept and audited. Implicit trust seems to have been reposed in Mr Barradas and both his
immediate superiors at the Post Office and the Auditor examiner, passed his
accounts in a most
perfunctory
manner.
Charges
have
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have been framed against
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the audit examiner, W. Freire,
for carelessness in the performance of his duties
and these are to be heard before the Executive Council next week. In the meantime I have interdicted him under the Colonial Regulations. I enclose for Your Lordship's information copy
of the evidence in the charge against Barradas as reported in the newspaper
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