5.
Accounting Stoff to secure closer control in
accounting and finance. The enquiries necessitated how over are not yet complete and it has not been possible to enter any sum in the 1929 estimates to meet this contingency. When the recommendations are clear cut the matter will be put before the Finance Committee of the Council for their consideration, with a request for supplementary supply as may be necessary.
We pass now to the details under the
separate Heads of the Estimates. The Departmental Estimates are fully annotated in the abstract of
differences, but there are a number of matters to which attention should be particularly directed.
Honourable Members will notice under the Cadet Service vote, Head 2, an item of special interest to myself. Sir Cecil Clementi recommended to the Secretary of State an increase in the salary of the post of Secretary for Chinesc Affairs and the Secretary of Stato directed that the Council should be invited to approve of a fixed salary of 31,500 per annum for the post of Secretary for Chinese Affairs end of a personal allowance of £300 for myself.
Under Head 11, Post Office, it will be
noticed that transfors have boon made to the department from the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff. This has been done because it is considered that the work of the Post Office is so highly
specialised that the prospect of transfer of officers to and from other departments is small. Conditions
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