CO129-575-5 Passport Office- authorisation for writing off deficiencies 31-3-1939 - 19-3-1940 — Page 6

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2. Governor No. 294.

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Requests authority to write off the further fourteen dollars, being fein

being fees

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sum

of

in connection with the wave of "passports & vreas which have not been properly brought becouve

We are not giver details: but it does not

Seem to be a case

in which it would be

justifiable to take extradition proseedings.

? Agree to this write. of at the same

taking action as in preceding minutes. I as well as (i) to go on, the PF.

time as Copy of (2)

Jagan & bank

16/5/39

NisAndrews

12.v.39

No. 3470/25.

Mr. Andrews :

I have received a report from the Auditor

in connection with the matter referred to in (2),

and he has informed me that as a result of a

recent audit of the accounts relating to the

issue of Passports and connected documents,

financial irregularities were revealed in which

the following sums were involved.

(a) $1,155.78, being fees in respect of 118

visas granted, which were not brought to account.

(b) $280.00, representing 28 missing Passport

forms.

In addition, the Auditor reports that 117

application forms for visas were missing,

representing an unknown sum, but possibly in

the neighbourhood of $1,100.00.

The sum of $14.00 referred to in the

Governor's Despatch at (2) represents a fee of

$4.00 for an Identity certificate and a fee of

$10.00 for the issue of a passport which, as the

result of a query issued by the Auditor, were

confirmed