ector of quial Audit
1910
18 July
st previous Paper.
on
ONG KONG
23 204
C
445
23264
Rece
Reg 29 JUL 10
Accounting, for cost of P.D. Stores
Suggestions for putting method of
more
satisfactory basis.
865). Wt.21,669-1. 40,000.
11/09. A&E.W.
subsequent Paper.
Mr:Collins,
Certain difficulties have presented themselves in Hong Kong in connection with the method of accounting for the cost of Materials and Stores purchased for Public Works. With a view to removing these difficulties and placing these particular acts on a more satisfactory fooding I consider that it would be advisable to adopt in Hong Kong the system of accounting which was embodied in the Memorandum
epared
in the Exchequer and Audit Department and approved by the Secretary of State in July 1908+(see C.0.8567/1905). In
General conveying this approval to the Exchequer and Audit Department: i was stated that it was propused to sanction the introduc- tion of the revised system in all the Colonies whose accounts were audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General, as oc- casion arose, Apart from the defects which have been observ- ed in the existing procedure the present appears to be a suit; able time for the adoption of the new syston in Hong Kong for
that
the reason the stock of stores is understood to have been
completely
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