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would be to supervise

the administration of

the Treasury itself and to exercise that

supervision and control over the financial

He

operations of the various departments which the

Chief Accounting Officer in the Colony is by

Colonial Regulations required to exercise.

would further assist with technical advice the

Financial Secretary to the Government. The

Financial Secretary to Government would be the

Governor's Chief Financial Adviser with the

seat in the Executive and Legislative Councils

at present held ex-officio by the Treasurer.

The result of such a system would be,

I should imagine, that for the Hong Kong post

of Treasurer with a salary of the size now to be

offered with the post of Deputy Director we should

be likely to get some man like a Deputy Treasurer

in another Colony who would be going on to a larger

Treasurership later. That wouldanyhow be the sort

we want rather than the older man who would

serve out his time in the Hong Kong post, and

possibly in the course of it fail to work

satisfactorily with the Financial Secretary to

Government.

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that it will be necessary

to decide on this matter of the Deputy Treasurer's

future before going on with the selection of

an officer for the vacancy, and I suggest that

we need not consider the selection of a Chief

Accountant until the Governor can obtain the

considered opinion of the new treasurer on

Mr Messer's retirement.

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