BOROUGH ACCOUNTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLII, Issue 6093, 27 March 1914, Page 3

BOROUGH ACCOUNTS

AID I TOP'S TAOS

At tlte meeting of the Borough Council on Monthly evening a communication was read from Mr P. Purvis; Webb, Deputy Controller and Auditor, Wellington, who telegraphed as under ; " Information promised in your letter of '20th November required immediately. If not to hand by LOth inst propose to issue surcharges' The following letters had been forwarded by the Town Clerk to the j Audit Department: i From Mr T. S. iHmeanson, letter' addressed to Town Clerk—"Ke amount of borough account for stationery supplied by me : I lind on adding ii]) the amounts that from April, D.)lf2, to March, I Ui:>, the total was .€l2 os. I regret that I did not watch more carefully how the account was growing. I did suggest to you on one or two occasions that the limit might be reached and that you might get what you required elsewhere, and if you remember rightly, you replied that you had tried elsewhere find I could not get what was wanted and | had not time to wait till it was

ordered fi>v you. You ;ire quite aware-that no application b>r orderwas ever made by me and the Audit Depart men! mu-t so_- ihat iii .\ small country town dure cannot be a great ' choice of stationers' shops and that your ollice cannot always see ahead what demands are to be, but that Wi tuts must be supplied as they arise. lv a small account of this kind many of the ariicies got might have beeu put through petty cash account. I hope when the auditor reviews the matter he will be satisfied that no breach of contract account was intended 4 Mr A. Ia Tanks" letter, addressed to the Town Clerk, was a follows ; — -• Le mayoral deposit, this was returned to me after full consideration of the circumstances of my having retired from the contest, before, expense had been incurred by the Council iv making arrangements for the election, by resolution of the Council on May iM, PJI2. I understood ihatit was to be paid out of unauthorised expenditure, as allowed by parapraph 101, Expenditure, Municipal Corporations Act, IiMJS. The .placing of the amount under that heading wo.'.ld render the payment perfectly valid, as it was, and still is, the intention of the Council that it should be. and meet the objection of the Audit Depa rtm .nt."