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that the defalcations

Commenced in

my

time.

I have looked through the

evide

100 2

Am A

for

I can see the whole of the defalcations peet down to 1800 +1889 may for

ale

that is the un

to the contrary have taken place in the

first half of 1888 when

not Treasurer, and

any

I was

cinder

circumstances I should

think that it is

very improbable

that are the defalcations that.

19.

himself says

were

done

710

that if they

in the

sto no

he suggests

way

that

likely

- by the issue of false receipts- neither the Treasury

the

Audit Office could have detected them until the books

to be examined.

Carme

It must be remembered

that I was

a-

Kep

part of

the

temporary

that

occurred in 1888

recurred in

the last six

months only of

that

year.

Hort

can it be

18.

asserted that with

Vigilan

I might have

detected them. It is not even-

known in whol

Evere

Come

way they

,and Mi Nicolle himself

officer with other desti

from the

Treamry during the greater

xay

and if

therefore the frauds going on continuously for four years have cluded the vigilance of the Audit office the

toll

raison d'être of whose existence is the prevention of such occurrences

and

have alou eluded the

observation of

who no

succeeded,

long labour unders

the