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No.
274.
Hongkong
[Reg: 27 OCTO
Government House,
575
Hongkong, 24th.September,1909.
My Lord,
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I have the honour to invite your
attention to my Despatch No. 171 of the 18th. of last June
on the subject of Local Audit to which no reply has been
received. Since writing that Despatch the latter of the
Comptroller and Auditor-General No. 810 of 23rd. July,
1909, addressed to the Local Auditor has passed through
my hands and I note that Mr. C. W. A, Trollope there
observes that "the Comptroller and Auditor General finds
*it difficult to appreciate the objection which appears to
"have been taken to the nature of the duties entrusted to
"the Portuguese Audit Clerk". It may be useful therefore
if I recall to Your Lordship's notice the enclosed print
of correspondence. Your Lordship will not fail to appreciate
the intimate connection which the facts referred to in that
correspondence bore to the defalcations in the General
Post Office and Treasury in the years 1886 1892. I
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE BARL OF CREWIG •
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