Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 3 August 1893, Page 3

Notes and Events.

The Public Trustee in his report to the Colonial Treasurer pays that official a poor compliment. The Trustee. explains the old style- system of all monies being remitted to Wellington and all payments sent from there back to the district from which probably the remittance was received. This is all right and has been put very plainly, but either from distrust of his own descriptive powers or . of the ability of the Treasurer comprehending it, he goes out of the < way to illustrate it by likening it to " two persons far apart, eaoh receiving a ton of coals for transmission to the other," This doetf i not seem to have put the matter in so simple a manner as to lead;, him to suppose the Treasurer or Parliament can grasp it so he goes ion with the other effort to get thei tacts into order. He says " I recollect the case of a cashier then, a man of middle age and some intelligence, (some intelligence is good after the whole little story is read) keeping the cash belongipg to his seven different classes of pecuniary transactions in seven different match-boxes. Buoh'lwas: hfa-care that the cash in one matchbox should not, ; under any circumstances, be applied to . the business to which < another match-box was allotted ; ;that it never 1 entered his head (this man of some intelligence), to infringe , ( the'rUle.. The consequence . often "was that, I with plenty-. f;of - money in hiß hands, (did-not the narrator say just now it was in: the i man of some intelligence's ' match-boxes) ■he could not make his payments. It was tin one occassion explained to him that accounts were designed not to occasion all this difficulty, but to save it, and, as example -sometimes helps precept, the explanation was followed by the throwing -of the cash from all the match-boxes' -into one heap, this Heap toeing, of oourse, -the balance arising 1 from his business generally. The man was for a time lost in a sudden despair, but he soon recovered from the shock to understand and appreciate the value of a proper account. ■'.-■ This littie story may be up to the fighting ■weight; of the Public Trustee- and the Colonial Treasure^ but it seems out of place in an Official document. There are some people who have that utter disregard of what is fair and just that for their own amusement thet post la " round the world " letter, just to" sec to how many places the qfficials^fll send it to in their earnest efforts to carry put .their duty. Owing to there being no such person as mentioned in the address it is at last returned to the Bender. Naturally. even. , the good, temper of postal offieials^Decome i ruffled, and at the last Eostel Conference it was agreed that, fetters so posted should Id returned to the Binders when I