CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9] — Page 334

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Memorial from the Assistant Auditors of the, Colonial Audit Department at present stationed in Hongkong to the Secretary of State for

the Colonien,

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We, the undersigned members of the Colonial Audit Depart- ment at present stationed in Hongkong most humbly and respect- fully beg to bring to your notice the question of the emoluments attached to the appointment of Assistant Auditors in this colony.

2. We beg to remind you that in 1909 to 1910 an interdepart- mental committee of the Colonial Office and the xchequer and Audit Department was appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the consideration of the reorganisation of the system of colonial audit, then controlled by the Comptroller and Auditor General. This Committee, which consisted of prominent officials on the permanent establishment of the Home Civil Service under the chairmanship of Mr. 0. V. Fiddes, C.B., C.M.Q., (now Sir G. V. Pidden, K.C.M.G., C.B.,) after approving the proposal of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to create

a new separate department to be called the Colonial Audit

Department, recommended in the thirteenth paragraph of their report that :- "the Local Auditors and Assistant Auditors will "be appointed by the Secretary of State, who will determine the 'salaries and number of the establishment in any Colony after "consultation with the Governor. Such appointments should, we "consider, be made on the recommendation of the Director of

"Colonial Audit. The appointments of Local Auditors and Assistant "Auditors will be subject in all other respects to the conditions "which apply to other Colonial Civil Servants of corresponding *rank or position as laid down in the Regulations for lis

"Majesty's Colonial Service and the local regulations of the

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