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efficient than the latter, it is

not justifiable to subject the_ Colony to additional expenditure for the purpose of maintaining

system

which it was led to

believe would result in an

economy.

7.

I

amex a state-

Enc.

2

ment, based on the estimated

annual cost

of

the

Imperial

Audit, which shews that by -

an Auditor under

appointing the Colonial Government

jhe

giving

and

Ling the two clerks in.

the

the Treasury Examining Branch

and a

third clerk in adde

addition

a saving of $4856 for ann could be effected on

the estimates.

including the present annual

vote of $10,000 for

I a

the Fundit.

am aware, however,

that the cost of the Imperial

Audit in 1891 amounted to

only $7812, and if this figure

may

be assured to represent

the annual cost in future-

years, the saving I have alluded

to would amount to only $2368;

but