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" Stock taking is nearly impossible. There is " another Store about 2 Miles from Wanchai " on the other side of the town, and here the "Articles were
mostly small and could be
umore
-
easily enumerated - Besides the two
considerable quantit very
"Stores, there are
" of pipes and other things
"open places
town.
Thes
stacked in
three different parts of the
" A large quantity of Stores
were taken over
" from the Public Works Department
the
"Stores were counted and taken on the Books
" of the Water and Drainage Department, but
"there is no
guarantee that the enumeration " was correct, and from what I observed in the "Stores, I think it probable that a goodmany " articles were never properly taken on the books." In a
Statement attached to his letter, Mr Nicolle shows that in December last he found the following discrepancies,
others, between the Books and the among Articles in Store Bib valves and Stop Cocks
inch - 17 deficient. valued at
"
22
Áo
do
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85
14.74
The
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