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Sir,
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Audit Office,
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From 18 SEP 19
8th August, 1899.
I have the honour to forward for the information of
His Excellency a copy of a letter I addressed in May last to
the Comptroller and Auditor General, and of the reply thereto.
Owing to the large sums which the Crown Agents have
been spending of late on the purchase of silver for subsidiary
coinage, they have had no available balances to put out on loan
on account of the Colony, but should they at any future time
have funds in hand and make loans as they did between 1893 and
1897 it would materially simplify the accounts if my suggestions
were adopted.
The Honourable
Colonial Secretary:
I have &c.
(Signed) Hilgrove C. Nicolle.