AN AWKWARD POSITION.
[PER Pi.ESS ASSOCIATION ]
Ikvekc-ROILI. February 23 The Auditor General haa rotna.;od. tho balance-aheet of the New River Harbor Board correct ed, to show tho requlremen' b of the law. Ia an accompanying lotto? he said the Board did not appear to realise that, although identical In personnel with the Borough Council, the two bodies wore distinct, and exercised powera under? a different Act having entirely different aerv.'ceß, revenue and objacta of expendl ture. , Tho Borough funda had h:o_ Illegally expended on purposes to which the Council had no power to apply thorn. whilo the H«rbo. Bor*rd had escipod payments for whioh they were legally liable. It waa no part of hia duty to criticise the reaaonß which had lnduoed the action of the Council or the Board, but only to require that the accounts be kept m aocordauoa with the law. The Harbor Board hae bad several th •aaanda out of the Borough funds, bat it hae hitherto been treated as a floating liability.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1775, 24 February 1888, Page 3
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167AN AWKWARD POSITION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1775, 24 February 1888, Page 3
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