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Walter P. Ellis
Mr.Ellis,
So far as Audit is concerned, the new
General Order 411 is clear and should render
Audit queries unnecessary unless its pro-
visions are disregarded.
As regards the policy of it, which is
not primarily a matter for the Audit Depart-
ment, the General Order seems to give the
Governor what it was intended he should have
(by S. of S's. despatch of 15th July). But
it also gives the Colonial Secretary the
same right as the Governor to the free use
of a Government launch as his yacht (the
Harbour Master in practice would always be
able to secure a launch for his own private
use if he wanted to, whatever the Regulations,
as he could as Head of the Department running
the launches always find some official reason
satisfactory to himself for using it); and it'
(section 4) offers a loophole by which pay-
ment by other officers for the private use
of Government launches might be evaded with
the consent of the Harbour Master and Colonial
Secretary, who, as ex officio privileged
officers themselves, might feel it invidioug
to