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Shalemani
From then until 1st February you were in charge of the
F.7. activities of the Department.
r. Terlor: I am still in charge.
Whilst I ma at camp, after three
days, on my fourth day, I received a menange from the hand office infortaing me that there were some urgent mirnates of
importance for me to deal withhe I got permission and moceeded
into town and found the mirates required my going out in my
oor visiting most points at which we proposed to have other offices or control. I asked permission to do this work and
I was told by the Adjutant that I had best do it when I had
no Volunteer duties. I was a quartermaster and my dutics were
mostly at meal hours. The other day, the result of this was
brought to my notice: I who prosented with a bill by my 0.0. for (26.86, representing the cost of one blanket and one mo8- quito net reported lost! I was doing two jobs at one time.
with the usual results. We will come to the 1st February,
when you were brought into the head office and charged with the
duty of evolving an accounting system. What did you find in
the way of books of account?
I think I could make the atatement that I found a record vas
kept but not a record which brought everything to the point.
The records wore spread over two or three books, principally,
I understimâ, because one person could not keep one book and
record everything in it at the same time). he busines8 WAB BO
great at the time that I had to concentrate on one part and leave
one part, for instance, the receiving side; otherwise I would
never have been able to see to the payment out side.
Was there a record, for instance, of all permit fees which had
boon received from the moment dealing with the public bogan?
That I have not been able to ascertain. I went there and
found the deposit section required all my time and it still docß.