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But the money received has to be kept somewhere.
Unless I were to
pay in at once each individual amount as received, I should have to
keep the whole amount in my office until it has grown to some
proportions?
Your deposits are not received in your own office; they are received
on board ship.
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They are brought to my office?
A.
Yes, but not in lump sums; they come in limited sums and any lump
sum can be brought promptly to the Treasury.
Q. Even after 8 p.m.?
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Q.
A.
No, they don't all come in after 8 p.m. though.
Not all, but will you take it from me that very considerable sums do
come in at times when your department is not open?
Yes.
One further point, that concerns the report which you sent in. At
the last hearing you told the Commission that when you found some-
thing wrong in a department, as you had no disciplinary powers over
the head of that department, all you could do was to report?
Yes.
When you found something wrong in my department you therefore reported
to the Financial Secretary?
Yes
Q.
A.
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I suppose you will take it for granted that a report, unless it is
simply a routine report, is intended to be a basis for action?
Yes.
Now,
what action did you recommend, in your report, should be
taken following your report?
A.
(Mr. Pudney hesitated)
Q.
Shall we say, what action in regard to my department?
A.
That the organisation should be made sufficiently definite to
apply a proper system of books.
Q.
Did you suggest means by which this should be done?
A.
Not being the I.0. I could not do so.
No, but you called attention, let us say to the fact, that there
was no officer attached in an accounting capacity to the