AUDITOR'S TAGS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 36, 12 February 1925, Page 9

AUDITOR'S TAGS

MINISTER A ;VICTIM

A LUNCH TO A GOVERNOR,

(*I mS9!UPB.—PRE39 ASSOCIATION.)

CHEISTCHURCH, 11th Feb.

''...Though■■.'members of; the ' Canterbury Education■; Board.-. got no satisfaction ..from the Minister of Education (Sir James' Parr) when they brought to his •notice the. items that,the^Auditor-Gen-eral had "tagged" on the; balancesheet of the board, they derived a, considerable „ measure 6f: -amusement from the reply of the Minister, who narrated, one very amusing instance in which he bad hiniself been'a victim of the Audi-tor-General. : .!. '■• . '■'"■ ' .; - .

;,: The Minister, in his. reply,- 1 chaffed the members of the board good-huiu-ouredly on the position in which they found . themselves. "The Auditor-Gen-eral' has teen on .your track," he" said, "but you .are riot peculiar in that respect.l^ (Laughter.) '<The AuditorGenoral has been, showing some keenness in pursuing, erring ; local bodies all over •, Now Zealand. -.'I-'-congratulate, you 'that you have -escaped at "three bob a head.: You were lucky. 1,.t00, have' been a victim... I can recollect two or three instances. -One occurred when I was Mayor- of the city, of Auckvi j, Govel'n°r . came to' New and did tho northern capital the honour of landing there., Natural-' ly the Mayor and councillors of a progressive arid hospitable; city like Aucka H C.°-H 4 r- ot.al(»y. Governors tnnm'nf U <!Slying ,hila sO">e enter-' tainment So^we decided to give d ■ J 6-*? ln? C'^ens-.-T The lunch , was eminently sat.sfactory from every point -of view, and the speeches, including my own, were most excellent. Unfo>S& W6 > d not counted ™ aS ce°eral ' 'Md three months « MSS't.SfiSS l sent.in my. cheque payment that was doubtful! then fhev would be protected. It was hs ob is Minister to sec that the- Go emmet