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must be as entirely open to the local and ston's En quing The Treasurer's account, and that it is desirable that the audit of them should be

but that fust as Effective

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it is not desirable to increase the cost of audit, and that Lord kantford will not therefore insist, at present,

Equally

on an

detailed continuous,

bus that the Local Audion should do as

much as he can with his present staff, Suggesting, for conson, a general Examt as as mesent, with any improve- -ment that the Local Audita cau enggest, coupled with a rigid test audit, say of one mouth in each year, selected without nonce?

This had better

be by despatel to

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Gor, showing the

draft friss to die Ryan

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No.

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In any further correspondence on this subject,

"the above number should be quoted,

and

the communication should be

addressed to

The Comptroller and Auditor General,”

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EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT,

SOMERSET HOUSE,

directed

LONDON, W.C.

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28 August 19

Rec

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REC 29 AUG 91

by the Comptroller and

Auditor General to acknowledge the receipt

of your letter of the The Instant tansmithing. a copy of a Despatch from the Officer administering the Government of Hong Kong relating to the Audit of the Accounts of the. Supreme Court for the observations of the

Comptroller and Auditor General.

I am to acquaint you, in reply, for the information of the Secretary of State, that, in the opinion of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the question of whether an independent Audit should be applied to the Funds of

be regarded partly

Suitors in Colonies.

as one

may

of

of principle and partly as one expediency in relation to the

relation to the expense to be incurred and the risk to be run-

The How. R.H. Meade B.

against loss of the ream a fine be

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