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Reference Sheet from Director of Colonial Audit to the
No.3/1923.
Auditor, Hongkong
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21st November, 1924.
Expenditure Credits in the Appropriation Account,
1923.
It is observed that the following net credit figures
are recorded in the Appropriation Account for the year
1923: -
(a) Public Works Recurrent.
Miscellaneous, Stores Depreciation
(b) Public Works Extraordinary (Hongkong).
Water Works, Taitam Tuk Scheme.
Engine and Boiler.
(c) Public Works Extraordinary.
Supplementarily voted.
Recovery of 1922 Expenditure.
(d) Post Office.
Carriage of Mails.
$2,970.31.
$75.59.
$109.02.
Transit charges (recovery of
claims 1920/1922).
Closure 2
2.
$171,898.38.
As regards (a), the Stores Depreciation credit,
reference is invited to the despatch from the Secretary
of State to the Governor of Hongkong (No.68 of the 26th
of February, 1920) a copy of which is enclosed for your
information, and as regards the general question of the
admissibility of expenditure credits in the accounts a
copy of my letter No.216/1357 of the 8th of November,
1918, to the Auditor of Fiji, is enclosed. The question
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