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were taken to
his application relinquish the system of an
Imperial Audit of the accounts
of this Colony. in its place.
and to establish
a local firial-
Audit under an Studitor in- -dependent of the Comptroller
and Auditor General; while a
considerable annual
s
saving in
"expenditure might be effected,
and a vote be
removed from the Estimates which has been
strongly opposed by the Un- Members of
official
Council
every
every
time that it has come.
before them, and is
to
likely. strongly opposed
be even more str
in future.
4.
The principal ar quinent adduced in
adduced in favour
of an Imperial Auditin Lord Knutsford's Circular des- patch of the 18th of September, ( which led to the institution of
the
(1888
existing system tare as -
follows:-
its the small scale.
upon
which the Audit Establishment.
of
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