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Do you press the question?
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The Chairman:-
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Do you consider the books he keeps are proper books
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I am afraid they are not kept as well as they ought to
be. I have always had to find fault with them, - over
and over again.
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Could you define in what way the books are defective ↑
I could give you an mample. Only yesterday, I wanted
to know what had been done with 1,000 gallons of
carbolic acid ordered for the use of the Department,
from the crow Agents ih 1901. The Seoretary could not
tell me. I said "You keep the store books, you keep
the records". He said "One of the store books is missing".
I said "Some officer must be responsible for that.
Surely they are in your charge." I could not ascertain
how much of the original 1,000 gallons was now in the
atore. The Secretary thought it had not all been used,
and it was extraordinary we had not used 1,000 gallons
in five years, wheh we had used about 12,000 in three
months of another disinfectant.
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Do we understand from that, that the only record is the
store book, which happens to be in the individual atore”
that the Secretary himself keeps no separate book of
stock supposed to be in hand ?
Oh yes, he does. He keeps a ledger, and each amount
issued is accounted for, and the officer himself also
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