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Parliamentary requirements as regards accounts.
There
is, however, no similar skeleton organisation for Hong
Kong and continuing expenditure, as will be seen from the
details given in the earlier part of this letter, is being
incurred in several parts of the world as well as in this
country and it has not so far been possible to co-ordinate
it. We are,
as you know, now setting up a Hong Kong Office
in London which we hope in time will be able to keep
properly co-ordinated accounts for the Colony's expenditure
but there is likely to be considerable further delay
scrting
before even the initial seeking out can start. In the first
place it seems that we must make proper arrangements for
accounting and auditing for the expenditure abroad and the
difficulties over the production of proper accounts in
respect of this expenditure may, we fear, well prove to be
almost insurmountable. We are exploring the possibility
of setting up proper accounting and auditing organisations
locally in these places where there is a considerable Colony
expenditure but the difficulty will probably be to find
qualified staff suitable for the work and there can be no
guarantee that past expenditure can be properly brought
to account. as
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have I?
For these reasons the voting of advances in the form of a loan in
aid has no very strong appeal to us as this would presumably mean that a full measure of Miscellaneous 460A control would have
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e way cleary to bring the expenditure
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to apply. We do not feel
under this control in pres
rather hoping that by agreeing that the advances should
be in the form of loans, the Treasury might feel able to
dispense with a detailed control. It was suggested at a
meeting we had on Tuesday last, at which Chance was present,
that this was done in the case of Burma. From enquiries
it
rouble
subsequently
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