CO129-527-8 Query concerning payment of lodging allowance in unusual circumstances 1-8-1930 - 16-1-1931 — Page 2

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1. D.C. A

1. 8.30

Trans letter from af Andchor Hot. with

copies of 2

Audit Queries

for

Obsons.

2 Gov. Conf

3.7.30.

Refers question of

Quaih

dio allors ance which

has been over ruled.

No.1 Audit query 6/2 E.

Head 2 (Cadet Service) on page 13 of the

Hong Kong Estimates, 1930, provide for twenty- three Class II officers (£440-£1200) among whom

is Mr. Wynne-Jones.

Head 5 on page 15 mentions three Assistant

Colonial Secretaries, but makes no provision for

their salaries with the explanation that these are

included in Head 2.

With due deference I suggest that the Acting Auditor's Query is based on a misconception, or a mistaken interpretati n, of Colonial Regulation

283. I submit that it is the fixed establishment,

under the Head of Estimates which provides the

money for it, to which the Governor may make no

unauthorised addition - not the staff of any

particular sub-division of the department in question,

in tis case the Cadet Service. How the Governor

sees fit to employ particular Cadet Officers is

immaterial, in so far as the Auditor is concerned,

provided the total authorised establishment be not

exceeded. The Colonial Secretary's answer to the

query seems to me, then, to be perfectly correct.

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