CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9] — Page 567

The Water and Drainage Department is for the present detached from the Surveyor General's department.

Were the Officers in charge

of these Departments to draw stores

from

a

con par

Storehouse, friction

and inconvenience might

or ed

might arise.

For

- ample, the head of a one Department might draw Stores, which the other had provided for some special work. For would the union of the Stores effect any appreciable saving. Each Department must have its clerical staff for recording ito

store

and

Cash transactions, Both these Departments now

Storekeepers. The

have Stores and

Surveyor General informs us that all that is required in order to bring the Store accounts of his Department into

good order, is Storekeeper, but a trained Accountant, capable of keeping the

not a

583

I books of his Department

general

including the Store books.

I th

the Praya

regard

to the Stores for Reclamation Works we are

of opinion that the Surveyor General

should decide as to the

nauer ein

which they should be kept, whether inn

a

separate Store and account or combine with the general stores of his Department.

There will however be no

objection

to the supply of stores from the Store of either Department, with the convent of the Officers concerned.

We are decidedly of opinion. that the Surveyor General should have a Work shop, affording

the

means of carrying

heim

of carrying work out departimentally, instead of through

Contractors, should he

to be econom

vical or

so. As it is, many

do do.

car vs üder if

expedient to

minor works.

by day laborer.

have to be done by day.

The

general