CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4] — Page 659

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653

that it was

any

no part of his duty to check receipts, or to take steps to secure the placing to the credit of the Government of all Government moneys

that reached

his Office, it is any duty to make

a few observations.

15. It is so obviously

part of

the duty of every [official] to take some steps to prevent Government moneys being stolen in his Office that I should not have thought it possible for any Officer appointed to

it to imagine that

he

was free

from all responsibility

in that respect. The raison d'être of the

establishment of the post of

a separate and substantive appointment

and of strengthening

the subordinate staff of the Treasury

as described above is that

the lax systems,

which had previously obtained when the post of Treasurer was held

in conjunction with

another appointment, might be superseded,

and

that the

Government

might have the security of its interests being safeguarded by

an Officer whose whole time would be available for the purpose.

That Mr. Antebellum Fan,

who was inexperienced in Treasury work,

should have failed to introduce

all the reforms

**required

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653 that it was any no part of his duty to check receipts, or to take steps to secure the placing to the credit of the Government of all Government moneys that reached his Office, it is any duty to make a few observations. 15. It is so obviously part of the duty of every [official] to take some steps to prevent Government moneys being stolen in his Office that I should not have thought it possible for any Officer appointed to it to imagine that he was free from all responsibility in that respect. The raison d'être of the establishment of the post of a separate and substantive appointment and of strengthening the subordinate staff of the Treasury as described above is that the lax systems, which had previously obtained when the post of Treasurer was held in conjunction with another appointment, might be superseded, and that the Government might have the security of its interests being safeguarded by an Officer whose whole time would be available for the purpose. That Mr. Antebellum Fan, who was inexperienced in Treasury work, should have failed to introduce all the reforms **required
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653

that it was

any

no part of his duty to cheek receipts, or to take steps to secure the placing to the credit of the Government of all-

Government moneys

that reachið

his Office, it is any duty to maker

a ferr obervatiau.

15. It is so obviously

Freases to

the duty of every take some steps to prevent Severnment- moneys being stolen is hier " Office that I should not have

thought it possible for any Officer apponisted to

to rimagine that

he

קיי

a prost

was frea

n all responsibility

responsibility is that

respect. The raison d'être of the

espect

establishment of the post of

ver his stongkong

separat

separate and substantive appointment

and of stronth

uthering

the subordinate

as described

straff of the Treamry above sis paragraph No B

is order that

PANI

the las systems,

which has previously obtained whow the poet of Treasures was

hald

1-1 1/

adjunct office ind

conjunctions with

another

appointment, might be superceded,

and

that the

Gevere.

A

might

have the security of its interests offices bering safeguarded by

C

whore whole trine would

available for the purpose.

Mr. Antebell Fan

bes

That

who wal

twork

inexperienced his Treasury

should have failed to introduce

all the reforms

A

**

required

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