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be delivered against cash until next week, and therefore this very simple looking abstract book could not possible contain
all data of one day's transaction.
So that to go over the same ground again, until Er. A. J. G. Taylor came into the office in February to your knowledge
there was no general cash book.
Yes. I should like to qualify that by further reference to
the cash book Mr. Tsui was using at that time that may have
been used as a general cash book.
There was no deposit ledger?
At this time there were no deposite until the Ordinance was
actually enforced.
Until the time Mr. Taylor came.
A.
There was no deposit ledger.
Any Vote Service ledger:
A.
No
infact there was no vote.
A.
A.
પ.
A.
A.
A.
How did you charge salaries, for example:
Everything was charged to one blanket vote; no subdivision of
heads and sub heads.
There was one general fund against which you charged all your
expenditure,
Yes.
In that minute that you have just quoted to us of 16th February you make the statement "An accounting system has just been
finally drafted".
The word 'finally' was perhaps a bit too strong; that was drafted
by Ar. Taylor who was brought in from Taipo for the purpose in
February. He told me he had sketched out a system.
If we omit that word, an accounting system had just been drafted
Yes.
And that was months after your appointment?
Yes.
And considerably after this revenue earning department had been
opened to the public and functioning
A. Yes.