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gave on that previcus occasion ?

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That is so. You asked me so much about ledgers and store hooks, we have not got a ledger,

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We ask as business men.

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Business men I dont think understand how the accounts are kept in a Government Department.

I agree with you.

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(continued) I think it is only right to the Secretary, that I should state that it is on record, on a C. 8. 0. which I can give you, that the store books and the accounts of the Department have been satisfactorily kept by the Secretary, and the reason why I say that is because they are audited monthly by the Government auditor, and very few complaints have been made concerning the way in which the books have been kept. But you admit some complaints have been made ?

Yea,

some complaints have been made.

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Witness produces C. 8. 0. referred to; No 1404 of

1902.

(Indicating entries in store hook) I would like to 23/4/ ask Dr Atkinson, what is the meaning of the words

"To diaponai“.

It means how it is disposed in the Department, how it is piven out.

It does not say "how"; it usys "to",

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That is what it means. That is the way the goods are issued in the Department. They are disposed to certain persons, that is to say,

over. I suppose.

they are handed

No, it is another thing. I dont think you follow quite. It is handed over so much to each officer, hut