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No. 25. The Controller and Auditor-General. The attached letter with certificate is for you. Will you kindly detach. I hope this will satisfy your requirements in connection with the countersignature of the Assets Board debentures. 19th May, 1904. Jas. B, Heywood, Secretary.

No. 26. The Hon. the Colonial Treasurer. The requirements of the Controller and Auditor-General in the matter were requirements to be satisfied before he countersigned the debentures. It was, however, some time after the debentures were countersigned that this certificate of Mr. Callender as Chief Auditor was given. Three or four days after the debentures had been countersigned a Bank officer inquired personally at the Audit Office whether the certificate should be sent in, and he was informed that it might be of service but that it should, if furnished, be addressed rather to the Colonial Treasurer than to the Audit Office. J. K. Waebdbton, C. & A.-General. 2nd June, 1904.

Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given; printing (1,425 copies), £i.

Authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9o4.