CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923 — Page 186

COPY.

Reference Sheet from Director of Colonial Audit to the

Auditor. Hongkong.

(B.) 182

No: 7/1920.

30th January, 1923.

Your reply to Reference Sheet No. 5/1920.

with reference to your reply to Reference Sheet from

this office, No.5/1920, of the 11th of August, 1922, it ia

observed that the detailed statement of transactions fur-

nished by the Treasurer does nothing more than to corroborate

the facts as originally stated in Reference Sheet No.3/1920

from this Office.

In that Reference Sheet (No.3/1920) two points were

raised: -

(a) That in December 1920 a credit of #379.950.75

was made to the subhead "Other Services" of the xpendi–

ture Head "Kiscellaneous Services"; that the net credit

appearing in the 1920 Appropriation Account under that

subhead was $199,946.79; that the expenditure on that

subhead during the year 1920 was therefore apparently

$180,004.96; that the provision in the approved Estimates

for 1920 ($5,000) and the provisional vote ($80,000)

against that subhead were insufficient authority for the

excess expenditure incurred beyond the approved amount

of $85,000 and that therefore an explanation was

required as to the authority under which the excess

expenditure ($95,004.96) had been incurred under the

subhead "Other Services" of the Head "Miscellaneous

Services",

(b) That in paragraph 3 of the despatch from the Governor of Hongkong to the Secretary of State (No.385

of the 13th of October, 1921) it was stated that the sum of $379,950.75 was still recorded under "Deposits not available"; that the 1920 Account appeared to show

that