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On the present system of recording payments
would not such a check of cash require scruting of the cash book, the direction orders, the Court files and the
watchmen's fee books?
You would have to consult the files and direction
orders. If the shroff wished to deceive you you could not check his cash. The only way would be to give re- ceipts. You couldn't do this with the present staff. Would it be possible for us to keep ledger ac- counts with the present staff? (Question asked by Mr. Nisbet).
No.
Could ledger accounts be kept without giving receipts? (Question asked by Mr. Nisbet).
No.
Would it not be impossible for an officer to make
a check of the cash daily if engaged on other duties? A test check could under the present system be
made once a week. If the shroff omitted to enter on a
file he could deceive the officer.
Would not the officer have to be an accountant?
The officer making the check would need a
knowledge of accountancy.
The cash book shows no indication of ever having
been totalled or checked with receipts. Would it not be
a simple matter to provide a cash book which would
record all receipts of every kind and their disposal,
in such manner as to enable a daily rapid and accurate
check to be made?
Yes.
The question of the cash book was raised
in 1924, with the cash books of other Departments of
the Government and in the latest minute from the
Colonial Treasurer, in October 1925, he minuted that
the cash books of the Crown Solicitor's office and the
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