TEE PUBLIC REVENUES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2194, 6 July 1914, Page 4

TEE PUBLIC REVENUES

«- CARELESS METHODS RECTIFIED, It is remarked by the Public Scrvico Comirissicr.er in Lis annual report to l'arliament that .a striking instance of lack of eo-open>tion of Departments camo under notice in connoctioa .*vith coal. ro}a!ties. "TV collections," he 'fcavs, "'are made by tiio local receivers of gold revenue, and, in soir.o cases by receivers of lai.cl revenue. There v. Ib no supervision, the receivers 'imply ncciwng sucn rojalt'es as tho coal-mine' lesbois might iondc - , and being in ro position to ch<.ck the figures. .The permanent head of one Department stated that a secc id Department we.s under the impression that the first Department charged itself with full rcsponslbilitj in tho matter; but both tho fiiit Department and a third Djpartirent thought that a fourth Department, was taivhg tho, responsibility. The iosult was that no one- attended to the -natter, and 'here nas-reaso'" t<j fear tl at a large amount had been lost to the revenue in consequence. "Hiis has new been put or. a proper footing - by Section 21 of the Public Revenues Amendment Act, 19i3

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