circumlocution will be necessary on the other hand every revenue affected, the principal of which are Police Rates and taxes, the And in these a refund to Day amounting over thirteen thousand dollars a year.
Apart from these drawbacks I do not see why the Local Auditor's wishes should not be carried out. (Should they be sanctioned I must ask to have returned to me the Estimates of Revenue for 1891 which it will be necessary to reuse). I think it my duty before closing this letter to point out the position taken up by the Local Auditor in his letter, he appears to consider himself at liberty to issue direct instructions to the Treasury without reference to the Local Government and to consider all matters of accounts as affairs to be settled between himself and the Accountant General, in the treatment of which neither the Local Government nor the Treasurer are to have a voice.
If this is the case I think it will be well if the Treasury were supplied with precise instructions on the point, as under circumstances like these it would seem being addressed in the tone of authority that is apparent in the remark that the Treasury should be careful.