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President’s men who were far from being well disposed to the institution, after examining the accounts reported on 2nd May 1927 that the accounts were kept in the best possible manner and that they could say nothing against the Hostel. The report was submitted to the Municipality.
Such a favourable report by his own men against an institution which he intensely disliked instead of changing the attitude of the President only served to exasperate him so much so that he still insisted upon producing books of accounts for the past years of 1925 and 1926. He was given from the Head Office the only reply that could be given namely that the old books of accounts of the Society are examined by auditors whose certified accounts are submitted and should be accepted and that current accounts are open for inspection to the Municipality at any time. Thereafter the Administrative Officer of the Municipality examined the accounts and certified that there was nothing wrong about them. This seems to have put the President to shame. For, thereafter he gave up his demand for producing the old books of accounts and intimated to the Superintendent that he would be content if the account books of the current year were produced before him. This was done and the President, I am glad to say, could find nothing against the institution. Disappointed at every stage to disqualify the institution on the ground of mismanagement the President at the time of the last budget meeting of the Municipality brought forth the proposal that the grant to the institution be stopped. But the allegations he then made against the institution were known to be false and malicious and were treated by the Municipal Councillors with the contempt they deserved ……….. All except one Councillor united in sanctioning the grant over the head of the President. It will thus be seen that far from the grant having been discontinued, the Municipality has in fact sanctioned the grant in its budget holding the allegation of its own President unworthy of belief. What has really happened is that the President after the grant was sanctioned refused to pay it out on the ground that the reply of the Society regarding the showing of accounts was not satisfactory.