Finance Com. at the some time it may safely be assumed that as
report contd. far as possible the greatest care will be exercised
by your Com. in order to reduce these almost impossible
irregularities to a minimum - with regard to the item
of £200 paid to Messrs Kelly Bros your Com. have been
supplied with a duplicate receipt - a receipt has also
been obtained from J Holt for the £50 bonus paid to him on
Dec last. With regard to the sum of £32 odd paid to
Capleton, the voucher for which is alleged to be missing.
Your Com. find that various sums were from time to time
paid to him in respect of his a/c - that the final balance repaid
to him was £18 odd - a receipt for this £18 has been produced
& on the a/c there appears this item of £32 odd representing
a former balance - Before the final balance was
paid to Capleton the a/c appears to have been passed
by Mr Coates one of your Committee & the receipt,
is marked by the auditors as produced.
With reference to the non receipt of vouchers for bonuses
paid to players your Com. suggest that the member
whose duty it is to hand the bonuses to the Players
should be provided with a memo book in which
he could obtain the signature or initials of any Player
to the amount of bonus paid to him.
As to the item of £5 short cash your Com. consider
that as this matter had already been dealt with by
a resolution of the Directors, they would not be
justified in offering any comment upon it
With regard to the vouchers generally your Com. think it
right to mention that in cases where the alleged missing
vouchers have not been produced the Sec has been able
to give the most satisfactory explanation of why such
receipts have not been forthcoming - They have however
suggested that the greatest care should be exercised.
