AUDITING ACCOUNTS OF LOCAL BODIE'S.
The following article is [clipped'frbnr the Ellesmere' 'Chronicle': — "'Oiif readers will remember the trouble and inconvenience which .the .ratepayers of the Ellesmere Eoad "Board District i were put to rowing to ;the..dfela:y. caused j by th© introduction, of the new. system j of .auditing, the accounts of local bodies. '■ {Si* Jplifr Halliand Mr . W ( alker brought | -this; aspect; of.^thejinatte^ iunclerVthe j .noticeof the, government,' and /wehave ] ; recen%.receiTCd.-&om'|he;(J9rer2nJent ! printer a copy of a return asked f6r : " by ' . the latter to ascertain the differencS 4n : cost of the : iiew system of audit and •the ! old one. From this paper- we r 'gather ! that what with retiring, allowances : compensation, and : .new, officials/a sum ' ol £2835 ww lu ej^dQd4ftri^"tjiQfiret year, m order to do away' with the snm i
of £2269 per annum formerly paid inh ; salaries. After jjlie jprkliAii^ary iotftlay" above-mentioned^ the j,nnuarc6st to the country .wi^l pe <£*19tT," shpwing, an apparel isavirig p'eF^nnuiir ' 6V r £296l ' ! But as anyona^aise^eitlfM^ivillHtake apout ten years wHih«ijJL^interest, to t sation,- it is. not eas?; to understaM' where; thera'ctuai-'&aySS m ' ! 'WWIiB ! public"''!^^^^^^^ kjrcM&o change is .t'ftfcen io,tp acgaim^. ia { • more than f a suspicion^ that V-Govern-:' ', j ment is carrying retlencinnen^to f M ' ' absurdity. • ifOCjfjqfiWo
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Oxford Observer, Volume XX, Issue 1, 14 December 1889, Page 3
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