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Department since 1856 ––
has been in the Department
informs me that he never received
directions to audit the Revenue Accounts
in
any
other mode than that which
I have described and which he found
joined the
in existence when he
the Department. It is certain that since 1870 these accounts
could not have been properly examined
: an increase in the staff for which seems to have been made.
without
no
6.
application
By attending for
some time
before Office hours, I have been able to
information
are not then readily to be had.
Any person who is acquainted with
Audit work will also understand that it
cannot be properly performed if one is
liable to be called
away frequently
to-
attend to business in another Department.
This is what happens to
mne
It is seldom
that I can devote more than half an hour
a
7.
day uninterruptedly to work at the dudit. hesitation therefore in
I have no
expressing the opinion that the duties of Auditor ought to be separated from those
devote occasionally
about
hour and a
an
of
half in the day to the Audit Office
but
it is difficult, from the nature of the
work, to de
do very
much out of office.
hours as books, references and other
Colonial Secretary and to be
confided to some one
prastically
acquainted with the subject who would be able to instruct his staff in the proper
performance of their duties and to
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