The Defence Minister has evidently been misunderstood in Auckland, where he is alleged to have stated that the Government intended to ask the Public Trust Enquiry Commissioners to enquire into the working of the Audit Department when they have finished their present duties. The functions of the Commissioners are strictly defined, and do not go beyond the enquiry into the Public Trust Office affairs. Ministers have not even considered the question of holding enquiries into the Audit arrangements in general, nor would they be likely to do so except by resolution of one of the Houses, seeing that the Audit is a Parliamentary as distinguished from an Executive institution. What Mr Seddon probably meant was that the Commissioners will be asked to look into the question of the oversight of the Public Trust Office by the Audit Department. — Post.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 135, 7 May 1891, Page 2
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