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8.

The perfunctory way

in which the Audit of Revenue has been performed is another charge that has been preferred against the Head of the Audit. If Your Lordship will refer

to the enclosures

to Governor Hennessy's despatch marked

Confidential of 31 th May, 1879, you will see -

31th

that within a

- very

short time

of

my arrival in the Colony I reported to His Excellency that there was __ practically no audit of Revenue. and that the Chief Clerk of Audit ___ who had been 25 years Department informed

in the

Ime

that in

his experience there had never~

any other than what I found.

been any

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I then introduced a proper audit of Revenue for the first time and it is a significant fact that within two-months of my so doing two Chinese Clerks in the Registration Department who had hitherto received Licence dues without. control over their collections, resigned

any

their appointments. I deny that the audit of Revenue has been performed in a perfunctory

by me i

meina

männer.

It is now hampered by the

instructions.

given by Wis -Excellency himself as to personal audit by the Auditor General. It

seems to me to be

one of the most elementary principles of

administration

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