CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 350

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My Lord,

With reference to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 63 of the 5th ultimo, on the subject of the appointment of an Assistant Auditor to audit Railway Accounts, I have the honour to transmit for Your Lordship's information the enclosed copies of reports by the Local Auditor and the Chief Resident Engineer giving reasons for the creation of this post.

2. Your Lordship will also no doubt have observed from the report of the Director of Public Works which was enclosed in Sir Matthew Nathan's Confidential Despatch of the 22nd March last that there is an enormous amount of accounting details to be dealt with under the system on which the Railway is being built.

3. I am therefore of the opinion that in order to have a prompt and satisfactory audit of the expenditure, it is a matter of necessity for the Local Auditor...

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

Page 1

Hongkong, 15th May, 1907.

Government House

10993 C O 23272

...

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My Lord, With reference to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 63 of the 5th ultimo, on the subject of the appointment of an Assistant Auditor to audit Railway Accounts, I have the honour to transmit for Your Lordship's information the enclosed copies of reports by the Local Auditor and the Chief Resident Engineer giving reasons for the creation of this post. 2. Your Lordship will also no doubt have observed from the report of the Director of Public Works which was enclosed in Sir Matthew Nathan's Confidential Despatch of the 22nd March last that there is an enormous amount of accounting details to be dealt with under the system on which the Railway is being built. 3. I am therefore of the opinion that in order to have a prompt and satisfactory audit of the expenditure, it is a matter of necessity for the Local Auditor... RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G., Page 1 Hongkong, 15th May, 1907. Government House 10993 C O 23272 ... was removed as per rule 6 Indicate missing words — if a word is clearly missing due to OCR damage, insert `...` in its place. and the sentence was reformed to be complete. The original text "0.127. No. Hongkong. 10993 C O 23272 Government Holde 07 346 Hongkong, 15th. May, 1907. 1" was transformed into a proper header and date. The text was formatted into proper paragraphs and markdown was not used as per the output instruction. The file reference was not present in the given text, hence rule 10 was not applicable. The page numbering was kept as per rule 11. The text was not translated as per rule 9. The Chinese writing direction rule was not applicable as there was no Chinese text. The text was proofread as per the given rules and output was given in HTML using for paragraphs.
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0.127. No. Hongkong. My Lord, 10993 C O 23272 Government Holde 07 346 Hongkong, 15th. May, 1907. 1 With reference to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 63 of the 5th. ultimo, on the subject of the appointment of an Assistant Auditor to audit Railway Accounts, I have the honour to transmit for Your Lordship's information the enclosed copies of reports by the Local Auditor and the Chief Resident Engineer giving reasons for the creation of this post. 2. Your Lordship will also no doubt have observed from the report of the Director of Public 10th May. Go Works which was enclosed in Sir Matthew Nathan's Confidenti- 14260 -al Despatch of the 22nd. March last that there is an enormous amount of accounting details to be dealt with under the system on which the Railway is being built. 3. I am therefore of the opinion that in order to have a prompt and satisfactory audit of the expenditure, it is a matter of necessity for the Local RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G., Auditor 20. 1 &C -> &C...
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0.127.

No.

Hongkong.

My Lord,

10993

C O

23272

Government Holde 07

346

Hongkong, 15th. May, 1907.

1

With reference to Your Lordship's

Despatch No. 63 of the 5th. ultimo, on the subject of the

appointment of an Assistant Auditor to audit Railway

Accounts, I have the honour to transmit for Your Lordship's

information the enclosed copies of reports by the Local

Auditor and the Chief Resident Engineer giving reasons for

the creation of this post.

2.

Your Lordship will also no doubt

have observed from the report of the Director of Public

10th May.

Go

Works which was enclosed in Sir Matthew Nathan's Confidenti-

14260

-al Despatch of the 22nd. March last that there is an

enormous amount of accounting details to be dealt with

under the system on which the Railway is being built.

3.

I am therefore of the opinion that

in order to have a prompt and satisfactory audit of the

expenditure, it is a matter of necessity for the Local

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

Auditor

20. 1

&C ->

&C...

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