PUBLIC ACCOUNTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18457, 21 July 1923, Page 8

PUBLIC ACCOUNTING.

PREVENTION OF FRAUDS.

INVESTIGATION PROPOSED. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PKESS "ASSOCIATION j ■'.': '."••"..• •. WELLINGTON. Friday . The Executive Council of .'the New Zealand Public Servants' Association continued, its conference to-day. * ~ -. It was decided that the association urge upon the Government the advisability of setting up a commission of experts, not necessarily members of the Public Ser- • vice, for ;tbe purpose of examining the present system of public accounts, and reporting to the Government whether the system includes adequate : safeguards against fraudulent manipulation of public moneys. A remit suggesting the setting up of a committee of competent officials to prepare a handbook on public service accounting, and make suggestions as to improvements in ■ the system, was also carried. A Wellington remit, in reference to the maximum salary for certain officers, proposed that no officer hereafter appointed, nor any officer now in the Public Service whose salary was £200 or less on March 31, 1913, shall be entitled to receive a salary of more than £260 per annum unless he has passed the senior examination or an examination which, in the opinion of the commissioner, is equivalent thereto was defeated.