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to his substantive appointment as Secretary to the Director of Public Works. Fortunately at this
juncture it became possible to appoint Kr. D.. PE19567
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Tratman, a Cadet officer with considerable Treasury
experience, to take up temporarily the work of
Official Receiver. Apart from the somewhat large
number of unclosed bankruptcies, Mr. Tratman found
little amiss with the Official Receiver's accounts
(which include the Companies' liquidation account)
and prior to his transfer in November, 1926, to the
post of Assistant Colonial Secretary he was able to
report that this branch of the Supreme Court accounts
had been put on a satisfactory footing and that departmental instructions had been i.sued to ensure
their maintenance in that condition. On Iir. Tratman's
transfer Ir. Agassiz was given the substantive
appointment of Official Receiver.
3. But the position with regard to the accounts of the Registry of the Supreme Court was unfortunately far from satisfactory. In September, 1926, Ir.Dallin, then Acting Auditor, inspected these accounts and made a confidential report dated 16th September, 1926,
This document was referred
clo. No. of which I enclose a copy.
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to Mr. H.A. Nisbet, the Registrar of the Supreme Court, for a full and prompt report on all the points raised, and I enclose a copy of his reply dated the 7th October, 1926, together with a report from the Shroff, Kr. So Ut Tai, regarding the apparent shortage of $200 in his cash. On the 21st September the Registrar applied for an advance of $32,000 from Government funds for the purpose of making payment to
distraining