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should be performed by the Treasury,

otherwise how is it to be audited? I_

propose

That is,

every Menter

7 Man Audit

Offene han something

to relieve him of these duties but to expect two clerks to audit all the details too (?

of accounts amounting to about £35.000 monthly, and at the same time to

furnish the information.

past and

on.

matters.

which in the course

present which

of business they are continually required

to do, seems to me to be rather unreasonable.

11.

If the Audit Office

were

separated

from the Colonial Secretary's Office and put

-

in charge of a competent person,

, conversant

with the duties and able to instruct his

subordinates and to take his share of the work, it might perhaps be found, after all the Departments have been thoroughly

overhauled that two clerk's would be..

sufficient; but until this has been

accomplished I believe that additional

be required.

assistance will be

12.

The increased expenditure that would follow the adoption of my recommendation, would I think be

-over

fully repaid by an effective supervision of the collections of the different departments. The recent case of emberrlement of #30000 by the Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court is an instance of what may be expected if the collection of publie - monies is not surrounded by proper

checks. Whether publie monies have

have not been

misappropriated

past it will now

好

in the

be difficult to ascertain;