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Did it not occur to you that it was a remarkable state of
things.
No means of ascertaining what the final position of the
department was:
A. Yeo. The department was in a rotten state: a state which was
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quite unparallelked .
That there was no means of ascertaining the financial statement
of the department I deny.
Ye have heard from r. Pudney and ir. Barton and Mr. Pollard
that it may be possible to ascertain it but it is not readily
&scertainable;
That is correct.
You say on the 4th December you wrote to the Colonial secretary
anu asked if the commencement of the Crainance might be
deferred
A. YBB.
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And that was postponed from the 17th December until 14th
January's
Yes.
And your reasons for that was that your preliminary spade work
was not completed.
Yes.
Did that preliminary spade work include devising an accounting
system.
I had far far too much to do.
But you had stated that by 15th January you would be ready. Do
you now say that statement dlá not mean that you included
accounting system
No, that statement meant that I hoped to be ready to scrubble
ahead somehow. I did not mean that by 16th January I would be a
able to have a well run department
that was impossible.
If you remember that file I think you will recollect that H.E. himself minuted, on your representation, that he was prepared to defer the commencement of the Ordinance until the machinery could operate effectively. That is the impression your minute left on his mind, and there could be no doubt in your min. as to what his
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