7. The amount of revenue or over-expenditure recovered as a result of the 1937 queries amounted to $742.23, while the undermentioned recoveries were effected as a result of audit submissions:--
Overpayment on Passage
..£21- 2-0d.
..£ 6-17-2d. (Or £6-5-7d)
The Award of Pension to a widow of a contributor who was sentenced to death was challenged by Audit.
The Law Officers of the Crown later ruled that no pension was payable under Ordinance 15/1908.
Recovery
(Less $100 Ex gratia payment to widow.)
.$359.78 p.a.
8. Among the larger recoveries due to Audit Queries were:
Vaccination fees not charged$82.40 Undercharges on Safety Certificates22.50 Undercharges Sunday Working Permits25.00 " 43.75 Overpayment travelling expenses92.64 Overpayment Money Order Claim29.77 Undercharges Vaccination Fees52.009. Audit Queries have been replied to with commendable promptitude.
B. SUFFICIENCY OF EXISTING CHECKS AGAINST FRAUD.
10. Subject to the comments contained in this report, and as far as has been ascertained at present, the existing regulations and accounting instructions appear to afford sufficient protection against fraud.
11. In accordance with Colonial Regulation No. 300 a Board of Survey was appointed to check the cash, bank balances, and revenue stamps, in the hands of the Accountant-General at the end of the year, and these were reported as having been found correct.
Post Office stocks were also surveyed by a Board at the close of the year, and no discrepancies were reported.
12. With regard to the latter survey however it was brought to notice by audit that the Board had carried out a test survey only of certain portions of the stocks held by Counter Shroffs. It has since been arranged that future annual surveys of these stocks shall be carried out in detail.
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7. The amount of revenue or over-expenditure recovered as a result of the 1937 queries amounted to $742.23, while the undermentioned recoveries were effected as a result of audit submissions:--
Overpayment on Passage
"
..£21- 2-0d.
..£ 6-17-2d. (Or £6-5-7d)
The Award of Pension to a widow of a contributor who was sentenced to death was challenged by Audit.
The Law Officers of the Crown later ruled that no pension was payable under Ordinance 15/1908.
Recovery
(Less $100 Ex gratia payment to
widow.)
.$359.78 p.a.
8. Among the larger recoveries due to Audit Queries
were:
Vaccination fees not charged
$82.40
Undercharges on Safety Certificates
22.50
Undercharges Sunday Working Permits
25.00
"
43.75
Overpayment travelling expenses
92.64
Overpayment Money Order Claim
29.77
Undercharges Vaccination Fees
52.00
9. Audit Queries have been replied to with commendable
promptitude.
B.
SUFFICIENCY OF EXISTING CHECKS AGAINST FRAUD.
10. Subject to the comments contained in this report, and as far as has been ascertained at present, the existing regula- tions and accounting instructions appear to afford sufficient pro- tection against fraud.
11. In accordance with Colonial Regulation No. 300 a Board of Survey was appointed to check the cash, bank balances, and revenue stamps, in the hands of the Accountant-General at the end of the year, and these were reported as having been found
correct.
Post Office stocks were also surveyed by a Board at the close of the year, and no discrepancies were reported.
12. With regard to the latter survey however it was brought to notice by audit that the Board had carried out a test survey only of certain portions of the stocks held by Counter Shroffs. It has since been arranged that future annual surveys of these stocks shall be carried out in detail.
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