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have been treated so unfavourably in view of the fact

that our colleagues in West Africa and other Colonies

are treated equally with other officers. It will be

seen on reference to the Report or the Colonial Audit

Committee of 1910 (Miscellaneous No. 246) that with the

exceptions of Mr. H. J. Gibson (now Sir Henry J. Gibson

K. C. B. Comptroller and Auditor General) and Mr. A. E.

Stephenson (now Sir A. E. Stephenson K. C. M. G., Director of Colonial Audit) all the co-signees of the Report are

officers of the Colonial Office, and who are therefore

fully acquainted with the assurances of equal advantages

and status held out to us in 1910 to induce us to re-

linquish our privileges and sacrifice our prospects in

the Home Civil Service to join the newly formed Colonial

Audit Department.

20.

Apart however from any question of rights we beg to

submit that our emoluments are inadequate from a financial

point and incommensurate with the duties and responsibilit-

ies of our work, which has so greatly increased during

the past decade. A brief survey of the growth of the

revenue and expenditure and growth in the number of

departments will help to substantiate this point of view.

And to amplify this it may be observed from the Civil

Service List that during the years 1862 to 1888, a period

of 26 years, 14 cadets were appointed, whereas during

the succeeding 33 years, through out which period the

audit has been under the control of the Colonial Audit

Department, no less than 36 cadets have been appointed

presumably on account of the increased work. It may not

be realized that the duties of the Audit Department are

of a most onerous description, and are probably of a

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