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Mr Sercombe Smith:-
fr Hewett:-
A.
I make the entries when my master tells me.
You make the entries when your master tells you ?
Yes.
Then, do we understand that one of the partners might take money out of the safe, or out of the box, and merely tell you that he had paid the money out for such and such a purpose ?
Yes, I enter it as he tells me to. I don't know much about the firm's matters. I only assist in making copying accounts, entries when the other man is out, and so on.
Mr Gompertz:-
A.
The Chairman:-
Mr Kelly:-
Mr Kelly:-
A.
Mr Sercombe Smith:-
Mr Hewett :-
Dr Atkinson:-
Do you know what has been done with this money ?
I don't know. That is the master's business.
Mr Kelly, have you any questions to ask this witness ? Yes, sir.
5th December. That other chap who was in, he said that $15 was sent up to my house in an envelope by a foki. He was supposed to have entered it in a book. Does he know who the foki is ?
I don't know about that.
Well, that was his entry in the book.
The entry was not that he put it in an envelope. It was "Paid No 6 District for coolie and day labour $15".
the first man. Ko San said that, Ko San said it was a foki that put it in the envelope.
That is his foki.
Mr Sercombe Smith:- They have a dozen fokis.
Mr Kelly:-
Mr Sercombe Smith:-
Mr Kelly:-
What I understood was, that the man that made the entry, paid out the money.
Not at all.
I asked him that question. That is why I had note of it. I am sorry that I made the trouble.
No trouble at all. On the 5th December, there is an entry "No 6 District employing coolie day labour $15". you had better ask him Did this man make the entry, that?
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