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receipts are with locked boxes which I hud made for the
urpose, was abandoned in favour of having e.ch controlling officer
A.
A.
A.
A.
in charge of the several sections who handled the permits
keep a register which is initialled by the officer to whom he
hands the ormit.
So that there was in force che: a complete system of register
Yes. It is not of course, as the ccountant General has told
you, proof against the loss of any of the booka.
Surely that system if fully carried out is ample safeguard against the loss of a document going undetected; say rather -
ample evidence of the responsibility for a loss?
Yes.
So that your answer to Mr. Pudne on that point is that the
fault was not in any failure to have an adequate system of
record but in the difficulty of getting individual officers
to keep the record?
That I should say was probably trua.
Your cash we have been told was paid into the fr:asury on the
usual paying-in voucheri
Yes.
At some definite hour each afternoon.
About 4 o'clock.
And any monies which came into your han ́s after that hour? Were kept by the shroffs until closing time, normally 5 o'clocÌ
then sexled by him in his own cash box which was placed in
the safe by myself or else locked in one of the drawers of
the safe, the shroff keeping the drawer key, and I keeping
the general key of the safe.
You kept the key?
I kept the key.
You will remember in one of the accountant General's minutes
which we heard a fortnight ago, there is a statement that the
keys, both the original and aplicate, of the safe were kapt
by the shroff that is incorrect?
Correct us reards the drawers but not as regards the main
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