CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11] — Page 359

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"Meantime the Comptroller and Abuitor General has suggested

that the entire preparation of the Colonial Accounts

"should be at ence transferred from the Local Audit Office

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to the Treasury as from the 1st. instant. It is of course

indispensable that the Treasurer should undertake the

"complete and exclusive charge of the preparation of the

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Colonial Accounts in general conformity with the Model

Financial Instructions enclosed in my Circular despatch

of the 25th of February 1889, and if any part of this work

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is now done in the Audit 01fice it would be desirable to

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transfer it to the Treasurer's Office, perhaps with the

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Clerk who now actually performs this duty."

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In reporting on this despatch the

Treasurer remarkea: - "All the four clerks at present attach-

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ea to the Audit Office must be transferred to the control

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of the Treasurer. As to this there is no choice. The clerks

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at present in the Treasury are already overworked and it

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is out of the question that they should undertake the

multifarious duties imposed on the Treasury Staff by the

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M Mouei Instructions.

This opinion of the Treasurer appears

to have been at first given effect te, as the pay sheet

for March 1890 shews the signature of the Treasurer at the

foot of the salaries paid to the four clerks in the Audit

Office. Subsequently,however, a new system seems to have

been introuucea by which the 1st Audit Clerk was

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transferred to the Colonial Secretary's

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Department, the fourth

the to the Post Office, and the 3ra only to the Treasury,

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Ena who had aiea not being replaced.

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