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efficient than the latter, it is
not justifiable to subject the_ Colony to additional expenditure for the purpose of maintaining
system
which it was led to
believe would result in an
economy.
7.
I
amex a state-
Enc.
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ment, based on the estimated
annual cost
of
the
Imperial
Audit, which shews that by -
an Auditor under
appointing the Colonial Government
jhe
giving
and
Ling the two clerks in.
the
the Treasury Examining Branch
and a
third clerk in adde
addition
a saving of $4856 for ann could be effected on
the estimates.
including the present annual
vote of $10,000 for
I a
the Fundit.
am aware, however,
that the cost of the Imperial
Audit in 1891 amounted to
only $7812, and if this figure
may
be assured to represent
the annual cost in future-
years, the saving I have alluded
to would amount to only $2368;
but