RELIEF FUNDS.
A GOVERNMENT AUDIT. (By Telegraph.—Special to Star.) WELLINGTON, July 25. In his annual report to Parliament the Controller and Auditor-General makes reference to the Hawera relief funds. He states that the honorary secretary of the Poor of Great Britain, Ireland, and Belgium Relief Fund, Hawera. was reported to have kept his books in such a manner a s to require an investigation by the Audit Office under section It of the - War Fuiids Amendment Act. An audit followed, which showed shortages of £55 ss, and that other trust moneys had been banked in the same account as the above relief fund moneys, and that other irregularities had been in practice. There was, however, a sum of £2l 9s 6d in excess of what was required to balance the fund, after allowing for the alleged shortage of £55 ss, and as the police considered that the evidence was not sufficiently conclusive to warrant criminal proceedings against the secretary, no prosecution resulted.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 July 1924, Page 8
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