INCAPACITY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 224, 21 September 1880, Page 2

INCAPACITY.

TO THE EDITOB OS" *HB " EVENING MAIL.'* SiR-*I was rather startled on riding an , article in the Colonist of the 9th iristarit-ifii. forming the public that a gentleman who it seems had bee to for dome time in the Audit Department at Wellington has been Sent to the Australian Colonies to learn the proper way of keeping accounts, or, in other words, to acquaint himself with the .true system of audit. If this ia the cafa we Have no reason longer to winder at the c"6nf tifcad condition of the public finances when w« have in a manner to send a, gentleman to school to learn the proper way of keeping accounts. , Certainly he has gone at,the public expenSej and I think he will' gain but little information in that. Quarter), he has crone tnß wrong r6ad. By an article in the Mail of the 16th instant a gentleman writing from California seems to understand our affairs,we! ji and comments on the. dangerous state of our finances', and points out' the way we may overcome • our difficulties. Thifc is the route our friend bf the 1 Audit! office .ought to have taken. But amidst all our boasts I do not see why we should so humble ourselves as to send a man from home on so silly an errand; can we not find a gentleman in all New Zealaud Capable oi such an undertaking? Where is the hon member for the Waimea, whose attention to figures is indefatigable? tinder such a state of things as this action discloses it is no wonder Mr Bryce should Say in tho House "that he did not know in what direction th,e money had gone.V • • " ■ - ■ - I am, &c, ,-; ..-. i" Simple"Simon. Nelson, Be.pt. Flo, l^O. '