No Accounting
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The Fiji Government wanted i new accounting machine to re dace one which had broken town. To the simple individual he obvious thing would have ieen to go out and buy a new me.
But officialdom does not work hat way. Under outmoded regu dtions they have to get new nachines through the Crown Agents in London, and they are tot allowed to pay duty.
A Suva firm was ready and villing to supply a replacement —in fact it hired a machine to he department concerned till the tew one turned up from over seas.
As duty had already been paid 7ii the machine by the firm, it would have been a simple matter tor the department to arrange with Customs to give a credit for the amount of duty and no one would have been the loser, for it would only have been a book entry.
By the time the new machine turns up the department will vrobably have paid more in hire charges than the duty, reports a Fiji correspondent.