£34-
78
A.
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A.
Q.
Chairman to Mr. Pudney.
When you say expenditure you mean authorised expenditure only?
Mr. Pudney:
Yes.
The aggregate of the various votes made specially for that purpose
by the Legislative Council?
Yes.
Plus any special warrants there may be, irrespective of the amount
of revenue; the expenditure cannot exceed those specifid sums without
special authority?
A.
૨.
That is so.
Mr. Forrest to Mr. Barton.
Mas Barton, you said that there were numbers of people walking about
inside the encroachment among the staff, round about where the shroffs
of the Immigration office were?
A.
Yes,
a number of people walking about the office generally.
Q. You were not able to distinguish my staff from the general public?
A.
No.
Q. So you could not say what business any person had?
A.
No.
Do you know how the public gained access to the building in which the
clerks and revenue officers sat?
A. The public seemed to be barriered off at the counter, some came in
at the back entrance.
Q
And some came in through the gate at the front?
Yes.
A.
You have been inside my private office, have you not?
A. Yes.
Q. How many people were working inside that office?
A.
I should say between eight to ten.
Q. Is it a very large office?
A. No.