CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895 — Page 154

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tory.

A new form for the collection of Hawkers'

License fees has been introduced and affords as good a

check as can be made.

(See my letter No 16/53/93 of

30th March 1894). New Regulations were made as regards

the accounting for monies received for unpaid corres-

pondence, &c., and are found to work fairly well,

7.

Surveys have been made from time to time.

of the stocks of stamps in the Post and Stamp Offices

and the main stock in the vault was surveyed in January

1895. On one occasion the Post Office stock was found

to be $5 short and this was made good by the Compradore.

In surveying the main stock in the vault, an excess

of one packet of 8 cent postcards and a deficiency of

one packet of 2 cent cards was found.

At the time the

Compradore was $5 short the 8 cent cards were 6 cents

only, the latter having been subsequently surcharged

8 cents, and the difference in value between one packet

of 2 cent and one packet of 6 cent cards being exactly

$5, it is likely that the Compradore was debited with a

packet of the higher value and received a packet of the

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