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the disadvantage of combining Treasury work with other duties,
I fail to see
on what grounds
the Commission assert that
I might have detected them
with some vigilance
Where I do
see that they
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remark is
might rightly have made-
M'Freire's evidence.
In the absence of the Rent
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books
Rolls & counterfoil and other records it is difficult
to hazard any opinion,
I must
Say
but
"that I think great weight attaches to M'Freire's
Admissions
that he did not
examine the Rent Roll for 1888 nor that for 1889, that it was his duty to have done so,
and that he made
to me
no complaint
of any difficulty, he
in obtaining
the books. In these admissions
appears
to be contained
the key to the whole situation,
and had he either made the
examinations as
his duty
or
reported his inability
to do so, if unable to obtain
the books, I do not see why
there frauds should not have been discovered
earlier.
It is impossible
now to say
upon
the
Treasury and
that he
did not report that the
books were not written up because
he thought that the Treasurer
Such criticisms as
bear
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far
they
the proper share of
blame to be attached
to particular individuals. The time for making has passed
and
I submit
that the