The Settlement Papers of Kestrel Road Depot

≈ 4 min

Kestrel Road Municipal Recycling Depot submits a monthly tonnage settlement statement to Halstead Borough Council's Waste Accounts Office, which uses the filing to authorise haulage payments to the contracted lorry firms. Depot Manager R. Tibbs has submitted the September 1994 statement covering six collection rounds. The Waste Accounts Office has flagged the statement for audit after a contracted haulier queried the reported collection date on one of the rounds. Your task is to determine which line of the statement contains an incorrect date and which reference record exposes the error.

The scene

Kestrel Road Municipal Recycling Depot, Halstead, Essex, England, autumn 1994

Source documents

Fenwick & Cole Transport Collection Manifest, September 1994
Bardsley Haulage Ltd Invoice No. BH-1094, October 1994
Kestrel Road Depot Gate Log, September 1994
Letter from Fenwick & Cole Transport to Halstead Borough Council Waste Accounts Office, 29 September 1994

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