accounts without payment: & say that C... will be asked to arrange for months salary.
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Andil have heard of the Praya payment but leave it stein 1 decide whether pard of wit Phelips.
(There It shall b 1807 mal reamy am for giving it the qualit & mir nicolle if I presume extra work not contemplated at the time of his appointment) by 119.
An Mu All 7 No. 10 208. and any further correspondence on this subject, the above number should be quoted, the communication should be addressed to "The Comptroller and Auditor General."
Sir,
EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON, E.C.
6th September, 1904
31170 Rec (Pref 7 SEP 04)
I am directed by the Comptroller and Auditor General to refer to Mr. Lucas's letter, No. 22330/04, of the 29th June last, on the subject of the appointment of Mr. Nicolle, the Local Auditor of Hong Kong, to be Treasurer of Ceylon as from the 6th instant.
2. For the post of Local Auditor of Hong Kong, thus rendered vacant, the Comptroller and Auditor General has selected Mr. Hugh Richard Phelips, at present the Local Auditor of the East Africa Protectorate.
Mr. Phelips will be appointed at the sterling salary assigned to the post, viz: £660, rising by triennial increments of £30 to a maximum of £720. In addition, he will receive the non-pensionable allowance of £50 a year for the supervision of the audit of the revenue accounts of Wei-Hai-Wei, sanctioned in Mr. Lucas's letter to this Department No. 27018/03, of the 25th July 1903.
3. As Mr. Secretary Lyttelton is aware, Mr. Nicolle was in receipt of $60 a month, in addition to his salary, for the audit of the Praya Reclamation Accounts, and the Comptroller and Auditor General assumes that the same remuneration will be paid to his successor so long as these accounts continue to be examined by him.
4. Should the Secretary of State concur in this appointment, Mr. Phelips will be instructed to proceed to Hong Kong from Mombasa on or about the 1st November next.
5. Under the Colonial Office Regulations Mr. Phelips must
the Under Secretary of State, COLONIAL OFFICE.
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