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and was competent to perform it. Messrs Thomson and Messer reported jointly on 13th January 1910 as follows: - "We examined the accounts of the Mercantile farine Office on the 12th instant, and found no evidence of incompetency on the part of Mr Craig. The book-keeping required is very primitive and he has been instructed to come to the Treasury with a view to learning a simple system of accounting. There was apparently no one in the department able to inform him as to how the accounts should be kept and it is not to be expected that he should have evolved a system of his own accord, We, thereforo, recommend that no action be taken in regard to Ar Craig until he has had long experience in the Department. No trained accountant is required as the work is very simpls and actually should not take more than an hour a day at the most to perform". Subsequently on 5th August, 1910 Mr Messer, Acting Volonial Treasurer, and ir Brayn, Acting Local Auditor, reported jointly as to ar vraig" - "He appears now to know how to do the small accounts that he has to keep. We aroff opinion that he is competent to perform the accounting work assigned to him”. In the meantine Commander Taylor had re-iterated on 25th July 1910 his opinion that Mr Craig was "etrictly honest and well-meaning". Accordingly Sir F.H.May in a despatch dated the 10th August 1910 rocommended that Mr Craig should be confirmod in the appointment of lat clerk in the Mercantile Marine Office: and Lord Crowe approved this re- commendation in a despatch dated 22nd September, 1910 (v.5.0. 6917/09). Commander Beckwith informs me that he has no fault to find with the manner in which Mr Cralg ia discharging his dutise.
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In the meantime Mr Britto, a Portuguose, who was 5th clerk in the Harbour Department, fell under suspicion of malpractices in January 1908. His duty wae to collect light dues before issuing a clearance for a ship the mode of collection then was
to fill up a receipt in a special book with counterfoils and audit numbers and sither to receive the amount in cash from the officer