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advocating its adoption. I am, however, informed that the

Imperial audit, as

formerly

conducted was attended here

with disadvantages similar to those which I have myself

noticed in other Colonies.

Queries regarding accounts

after the

were sent out

the lapse

of periods varying from. " many months to as much

as tivo

in

years,

when changes

Offices made explanation

and correction by

no means

easy

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and much time and

easy;

correspondence

More

frequently

were

expended,

over very

very

minute details, than with

regard to important matters of system and principle. The

clerical labour involved, and

the

printing and required,

were

s

stationery -

often much

greater than the results justified, inasmuch as the "irregularities that were

discovered could have been

checked more

readily, and

more

!

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