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addition of

an audit of expenditure.

of this is demanded, I am of opinion that two extra officers will be required in the Treasury with

salaries of not less than £960 and

$1,200 per annum

L..

respectively.

This

I would bring the Evansining Branch"

up to the same. Audit Office,

a

st

strength

as the old

strength which is

requisite in view of the considerable increase in the work which the-

ressity of examining duplicate mistead of, as • formerly, sungle vouchers,

and the mistituition

the Water and

Drainage Department with its

numerous accounts has occasioned.

I have rc.

(Irgized) A. G. Mitchell-Gunes,

Treasurer.

P. I. I may mention that only siy queries have been received from Somerset House, on

the returns sent

home

home in 1891, and that

of these was of

of any beerig

the case

error

bre

one side

neutralising

693

are

only importance, where, by ar

of

the bccounts

a similar error on the

other, the balance remained

unaffected, and the slip thereby

escaped undetected?

There would seem

therefore to be no

pressing necessity.

for incurring further expenditure on audit at present.

(JP) N.G.M.J.