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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