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were taken to

his application relinquish the system of an

Imperial Audit of the accounts

of this Colony. in its place.

and to establish

a local firial-

Audit under an Studitor in- -dependent of the Comptroller

and Auditor General; while a

considerable annual

s

saving in

"expenditure might be effected,

and a vote be

removed from the Estimates which has been

strongly opposed by the Un- Members of

official

Council

every

every

time that it has come.

before them, and is

to

likely. strongly opposed

be even more str

in future.

4.

The principal ar quinent adduced in

adduced in favour

of an Imperial Auditin Lord Knutsford's Circular des- patch of the 18th of September, ( which led to the institution of

the

(1888

existing system tare as -

follows:-

its the small scale.

upon

which the Audit Establishment.

of

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