CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7] — Page 13

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month of December, and other expenditure incurred towards

the

the close of the year, from the respective votes for following year.

The practice appears to me to be not only contrary to regulation, but highly objectionable

inasmuch as it results in

an incorrect presentation of the financial position of the Colony; and I

submit that it should be discontinued with the least

possible

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possible delay.

2.

The statement of ~

revenue and expenditure

for 1891 has already been laid before the Legislative Council and forwarded to

Your Lordship, and it cannot

now be amended, but I propose, with Your Lordship's approval, to take steps to have all the expenditure of the current and subsequent

years brought to account against the votes of the

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