CO129-607-1 Enquiry into loss of public money 22-5-1948 - 26-10-1948 — Page 46

9.

VI. WEAKNESSES STILL REMAINING AFTER REMEDIES APPLIED.

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A.

Collection.

(a)

The old old snag that the banks close at 15.00

(b)

(c)

so that money collected after 14.30 hrs. has to lie in office safe overnight.

Opportunities for dirty work on occasions when DO.N.T., D.0.S., and Land Bailiff South are all absent at closing time.

Traditional tricks against which no system is fool- proff.

N.B.

A cash register machine would provide useful safeguard against some of these. Justified for this Dept.?

B.

Paying Out.

No unusual weaknesses discerned.