CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7] — Page 641

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to prove

its case on the

different charges, chiefly

arose

from the unsatisfactory

manner in which the

accounts of the Post Office had been kept and audited. Implicit trust seems to have been reposed in Mr Barradas and both his

immediate superiors at the Post Office and the Auditor examiner, passed his

accounts in a most

perfunctory

manner.

Charges

have

638

have been framed against

7

the audit examiner, W. Freire,

for carelessness in the performance of his duties

and these are to be heard before the Executive Council next week. In the meantime I have interdicted him under the Colonial Regulations. I enclose for Your Lordship's information copy

of the evidence in the charge against Barradas as reported in the newspaper

Inch

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6 to prove its case on the different charges, chiefly arose from the unsatisfactory manner in which the accounts of the Post Office had been kept and audited. Implicit trust seems to have been reposed in Mr Barradas and both his immediate superiors at the Post Office and the Auditor examiner, passed his accounts in a most perfunctory manner. Charges have 638 have been framed against 7 the audit examiner, W. Freire, for carelessness in the performance of his duties and these are to be heard before the Executive Council next week. In the meantime I have interdicted him under the Colonial Regulations. I enclose for Your Lordship's information copy of the evidence in the charge against Barradas as reported in the newspaper Inch
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6 to prove its case on the different charges, chiefly. arose from the unsatisfactory manner in which the accounts of the Post Office - had been kept and audited. Implicit trust seems to have been reposed in Mr Barradas and both his immediate superiors at the Post Office and the Auditor examiner, passed his accounts in a most. perfunctory. manner, Charges have 638 have been framed against 7 the audit examiner, W. Freire, for carelessness in the performance of his duties and these are to be heard before the Executive Council next week. In the meantime I have interdicted him under the Colonial Regulations. I enclose for Your -Lordship's information copy charge of the evidence in the against Barradas as reported in the newspaper Inch
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6

to prove

its case on the

different charges, chiefly.

arose

from the unsatisfactory

manner in which the

accounts of the Post Office - had been kept and audited. Implicit trust seems to have been reposed in Mr Barradas and both his

immediate superiors at the Post Office and the Auditor examiner, passed his

accounts in a most.

perfunctory.

manner,

Charges

have

638

have been framed against

7

the audit examiner, W. Freire,

for carelessness in the performance of his duties

and these are to be heard before the Executive Council next week. In the meantime I have interdicted him under the Colonial Regulations. I enclose for Your -Lordship's information copy

charge

of the evidence in the against Barradas as reported in the newspaper

Inch

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