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notes in his memo, but he adds "it is not considered that the expenditure shewn in the Frinted Estimates is beyond the resources of the Colony".

I pass now to the question of the form in which

the 1933 Estimates have been dran up.

Hon. Members

In

will note that there are important changes as compared with 1932, and they are the result partly of instructions from Home and partly of an attempt to fall in with the wishes of the Unofficials as expressed last year.

to shew as either case the object was the same clearly as possible the separate cost of each Department

The effort to reach this end for the year concerned. has shewn that caution is required in interpreting the Estimates as now presented; the difficulty centreing in those cadres of the service which are not in their nature confined to special Departments.

They are the

Cadet Service, the Senior Clerical & Accounting staff

in the case of the and the Junior Clerical Staff" first two the position being made still more difficult by the calls of Home leave. All expenses, leave and other, in the case of technical officers can properly be debited to their Departments; but non technical officers may well have no connection with the Department in which they have been serving once they go on leave. The precise appointment on return from le ave depends on circumstances the circumstances of a small service in

which it is not possible to keep all Departments

sufficiently